Associates
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Zimbabwe AHEAD is an indigenous NGO formed in 1997 to scale up the Community Health Club approach that had proved so successful in field trials between 1995-1997 (funded by UNICEF). As the original pioneer in the Community Health Club approach, the organisation has invaluable experience in this methodology and in the past 10 years has developed and utilized the AHEAD Model to its full extent.
Health Integrated Development Organisation (HIDO)
HIDO is an indigenous NGO based in Gulu District in Northern Uganda . It was formed in 2004 by Ugandan medical practitioners and is comprised of an energetic group of recently qualified clinicians and health assistants. Supported by CARE International, HIDO provided the facilitators which were trained by Africa AHEAD to start Health Clubs in 15 IDP Camps in Gulu. HIDO now provides training in the CHC model for other NGOs and has expanded activities to other districts, in partnership with other organisations.
Effective Interventions is a UK based Foundation formed to influence the sector to promote best practice, by providing case studies of how to lower Infant Mortality Rate in developing countries. Two major research programmes are being done, one in India and the other in Guinea Bissau, one of the poorest countries in Africa. After visiting Zimbabwe AHEAD to verify claims of high rate of hygiene behaviour change, Africa AHEAD was asked to provide training and mentor in the CHC approach. In 2007, a workshop was held to train facilitators in the Community Health Clubs to compliment an intervention to improve clinical facilities for expectant mothers and under 5’s.
Tshulu Trust
A community outreach project of the Wits School of Arts and funded by the National Lottery distribution, the group have built a wilderness camp on the banks of the Mutale river, North East Limpopo Province, which is becoming an effective example of community empowerment through job creation linked to educational tourism. Africa AHEAD is currently providing a health component to assist communities to improve family living standards by improved hygiene in community health clubs.
Philisanani Community Health Club
Africa AHEAD on behalf of University of Western Cape was asked to provide training in August 2006 for 25 facilitators in order to start Community Health Clubs in Khayelitsha, one of the largest informal settlements in Cape Town. Having completed the health training, Philisanani has gone on to become a registered Non Profit organisation, after a core group of health club members decided to provide long term assistance to their community. The group is now seeking funds to provide home based care to the vulnerable elderly, as well as providing child care services for working parents, and promoting healthy behaviors and life-skills with the youth
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ACCREDITATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CLUB FACILITATORS
To meet the demand for training for the scaling up of this strategy in the foreseeable future we are calling on all those trained in the CHC Approach by either Zimbabwe AHEAD, or Africa AHEAD to register with us so that we can set up a database of CHC trainers throughout Africa.
We will provide a fair system of accreditation that will ensure that when the CHC Approach, when rolled out, does not lose its effectiveness in the process of being transferred to each generation of trainers.
All these who would like to be entered on our database and become formally associated with the new wave of CHC training, either in their country or to provide international training should complete an application. Where possible, please include a passport photo with your application.
To apply for CHC accrediation, please contact us. If contacting us by email, please use include the following in the subject line: Accreditation/Country/Surname.
