A Quick History: Giving Credit Where it is Due Dr Juliet Waterkeyn, CEO Africa AHEAD April 2014 This year we are celebrating 20 years since 1994 we first tried out my original concept of a ‘Community Health Club’ to galvanise women into taking action to improve their own health and hygiene in their homes. I would …
Thursday 11 August 2011 Around 30 percent of the national budget of Rwanda is made available to district authorities. This high share makes Rwanda a front-runner in Africa, Stephan Klingebiel and Timo Mahn, two German banking specialists write in the June 2011 edition of Development and Cooperation, Vol. 38.2011:6. In only a few years, the …
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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 …
Johanna Road Informal Settlement October 2009 The eThekwini Metro is giving Africa AHEAD the chance to pilot the CHC concept in one of the most challenging informal settlements in the City of Durban. The settlement is situated on a steep slope of a hill next to the Sea Cow sewerage works, which has long been …
BACKGROUND Umzimkhulu Municipality in Sisonke District of KZN was selected by the Department of Water Affairs to pilot this project that was initiated as part of the IWRM (Integrated Water Resource Management) programme being funded by the Danish Embassy (DANIDA). Umzimkhulu was part of the Eastern Cape until it was recently absorbed into Kwa Zulu …
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READ LATEST NEWS FROM SIERRA LEONE – Sierra Leone: Care International: In 2001, the Directors of Africa AHEAD did an evaluation of CARE emergency projects in Sierra Leone in order to convert the emergency programmes that had been in place for over a decade in war-torn Sierra Leone, into a more sustainable development model now …
Improving Hygiene Behaviour of Communities throughout Rwanda Community-Based Environmental Health Promotion Programme MINISTRY OF HEALTH Environmental Health REPUBLIC OF RWANDA 1. The Community-Based Environmental Health Promotion Programme (CBEHPP) is a hygiene behaviour change approach to reach communities and empower them to identify their personal and domestic hygiene and environmental health-related problems (including access to …
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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