Type of partner: Implementing partner Funding: Aqua 4 All Link to more information Dates of partnership: Octobr 2013-June 2015 Country: Uganda District: Apac Type of Project: Supporting a Water Supply Project by mobilising through Community Health Clubs Objective of Project: To enable more community participation in the supply of 75 new boreholes and promote sustainable …
Village Network Africa Replicate CHCs by Anita Boling, Director Using the Africa Ahead program materials, Village Network Africa (ViNA) trained 28 Community Health Club (CHC) volunteer leaders in the rural Kibaale district in Uganda in 2009. The leaders were elected by residents from 14 villages. Jihan Mandilawi, MPH and Anita Boling, RN, MSN, PhD trained …
December 2013 – April 2015 International Life Fund (ILF) wanted to expand the impact of Sanitation and Hygiene promotion within the communities in Apac District where it has a Water Supply programme drilling boreholdes in 200 villages. ILF selected the Community Health Club (CHC) methodology because of its success record in northern Uganda in the …
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Village Network Africa Replicate CHCs by Anita Boling, Director Using the Africa Ahead program materials, Village Network Africa (ViNA) trained 28 Community Health Club (CHC) volunteer leaders in the rural Kibaale district in Uganda in 2009. The leaders were elected by residents from 14 villages. Jihan Mandilawi, MPH and Anita Boling, RN, MSN, PhD trained …
by Anita Boling,Director Using the Africa AHEAD program materials, Village Network Africa (ViNA) trained 28 Community Health Club (CHC) volunteer leaders in the rural Kibale district in Uganda in 2009. The leaders were elected by residents from 14 villages. Jihan Mandilawi, MPH and Anita Boling, RN, MSN, PhD trained the health leaders and David Kyamanywa, …
Community Health Club Approach as a Strategy to Empower Community Action to Improve Hygiene and Sanitation Full paper presented during the seminar Otai John Justin – COMMUNITY HEALTH CLUB PRESENTATION – MOSHI – NOV.2007.pdf (1.08 MB) In 2003 -4, The Director Of Africa AHEAD first started CHCs in the IDP Camps in Gulu, with CARE …
In 2005 Community Health Clubs were started in IDP Camps in Northern Uganda, where numerous NGOs had been trying to introduce safer sanitation for the past 18 years in one of the worst ongoing conflicts in Africa. Inspite of much sceptism that nothing could be done to aleviate this chronic public health situation, the 120 …
UGANDA 1st Period of operation: 2003 – 2004 Community Health Clubs: 116 Number of CHC members: 15,000 Number of Beneficiaries: 120,000 Main Partner: CARE International/ HIDO Main Donor : Gates Foundation 2nd Period of Operation: 2014 Community Health Clubs: 70 Number of members: Main Partner: International Lifeline Fund BACKGROUND In 2003, Africa AHEAD provided …
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. It is dedicated to serve internally displaced people caused by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), which for the past 18 …
Okot, P., Kwame, V., & Waterkeyn, J. (2005). Rapid Sanitation Uptake in the Internally Displaced People Camps of Northern Uganda through Community Health Clubs. Kampala. 31st WEDC Conference. Abstract: When thousands of people are forced to live in poor living conditions in a closely confined area the immediate health risk is the lack of sanitation …
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