Wednesday 6 July 2016

Reminder: Invitation to M&E and CSS Training/Certificate Courses in August 2016, in Abuja, Nigeria


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HSP Consultants hereby sends you this invitation (announcement) reminder to one-week intensive and hands-on certificate courses during August 2016 in Abuja:


I.                   ADVOCACY, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION (ACSM); July 24th – 30th,      in Abuja

COURSE MODULES: Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM)

Module 1 – Introductions, Definitions and Justifications
Module 2 - Communication as an overarching theme
Module 3 - Advocacy to change political agendas
Module 4 - Social mobilization to build partnerships
Module 5 - Knowledge is critical, but not enough
Module 6 - ACSM strategy must be integral
Module 7 - Participatory, nondiscriminatory and rights-based ACSM
Module 8 - Using ACSM to achieve desired changes and investments in 
                    community, national and global capacity
Module 9 - Fostering inclusion
Module 10 - Ensuring political commitment and accountability
Module 11 - Fostering partnerships
Module 12 - Learning, adapting and building on good ACSM practices
Module 13 - Monitoring and evaluation of ACSM programmes
Module 14 - Using ACSM to link to other development processes
Module 15 - Making ACSM work for programmes, activities and events
Module 16 – Micro-presentations

II. Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation (AdvM&E); August 21st-27th, in Abuja

COURSE MODULES: Advanced M&E (AdvM&E)

Module 1 – Introduction to M&E: overview of concepts, methods, frameworks and tools
Module 2 – M&E in the health sector: service delivery, health care financing, human resources
Module 3 – Tools for M&E in Programs and Service delivery systems
Module 4 – Information management systems at national, local and project level
Module 5 – Global Health Initiatives and the role of M&E
Module 6 – Managing and Ensuring adequate data quality for M&E
Module 7 – Innovative approaches to M&E
Module 8 – Making M&E equity and gender aware
Module 9 – Ethics, and dealing with conflicts of interest in M&E
Module 10- Designing and managing evaluations, and using evaluation findings
Module 11 – Micro-presentations

III. Community Systems Strengthening (CSS); August 28th – 3 Sept.,  in Abuja

COURSE MODULES: Community Systems Strengthening (CSS)

Module 1 – Introductions, Definitions and Justifications
Module 2 - Programme Management
Module 3 – Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Tools
Module 4 - Financial Management
Module 5 - Leadership & Governance
Module 6 - Organisational Development
Module 7 - Resource Mobilization
Module 8 - Identity, Gender & Sexuality
Module 9 - Family Support
Module 10 - Life Skills Education
Module 11 - Trauma & Violence
Module 12 - Human Rights
Module 13 - Community Preparedness
Module 14 - Friendly Services
Module 15 – Attitude
Module 16 - Micro presentations

Registered participants are expected to arrive on the 1st day Sunday, and depart on the7th day Saturday, while accommodation is reserved for participants unless otherwise chosen.

Please find below the following information on the courses:
1.      Brief organizational profile of HSPC
2.      Modules of the Course
3.      Course fee and payment/registration guideline/information
4.      Link to the modules of all courses being offered by HSPC, and
5.      Schedule of all courses being offered by HSPC in 2016, including dates and venue cities

VENUE:
ABUJA - Gracious Hotel; 29 Okemesi Crescent, off Muhammadu Buhari Way, by Old CBN, Garki, Abuja, Nigeria

COURSE REGISTRATION FEE WITHOUT ACCOMMODATION:
REGULAR COURSES:
N155, 000.00 per locally-based participant
US$750.00 per foreign-based participant
ADVANCED COURSES:
N255, 000.00 per locally-based participant
US$1285.00 per foreign-based participant
Fee covers the following:
i.                    DVD/CD containing the official course presentations and materials for further readings
ii.                  Printed and spiral-bound copy of the official course presentations
iii.                Course certificate
v.                  Daily tea break and lunch for Monday – Friday

COURSE REGISTRATION FEE WITH ACCOMMODATION:
REGULAR COURSES:
N225, 000.00 per locally-based participants;
US$1, 000.00 per foreign-based participants
ADVANCED COURSES:
N325, 000.00 per locally-based participant
US$1670.00 per foreign-based participant
Fee covers the following:
i.                    DVD/CD containing the official course presentations and materials for further readings
ii.                  Printed and spiral-bound copy of the official course presentations
iii.                Course certificate
iv.                Accommodation for 6 nights
v.                  Daily tea break and lunch for Monday – Friday
vi.                Airport shuttles/picks for foreign-based participants
The first and last days are for arrival and departure respectively.

PAYMENTS SHOULD BE MADE INTO:

a.      payments in NAIRA
Zenith Bank (Naira)
Account Name: Health Systems & Project Consultants
A/C NO: 1013070541

b.      payments in US DOLLARS
Prospective participants are advised to request for payment/account information

USEFUL LINKS:

REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE: 1 week before the commencement of each course

REGISTRATION CANCELATION/REFUND REQUESTS: 2 weeks before the commencement of the course for which registration/payment has been made

REGISTRATION ROLL-OVER/POSTPONEMENT TO THE NEXT SCHEDULED COURSE PERIOD: 1 week before the commencement of the course for which registration/payment has been made

Also attached is the Course registration form. Complete and email back the registration form to hspempowerments@gmail.com within the deadlines.

ABOUT HEALTH SYSTEMS AND PROJECTS CONSULTANTS (HSPC)

The Health Systems and Projects Consultants (HSPC) Limited is a Nigerian management-holding consultancy firm established to provide and promote systems management, capacity building/training and evidence-generation/research and outreach services for the Health (including PHC, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria), Nutrition and Food Security, Energy and Environment, and Good Governance and Human Rights. It is a partner to India’s foremost Metro Hospitals Group/MHI Healthcare and Afrihealth Optonet Association, among others. Incorporated in December 2011, HSPC Ltd strives to be a key private-sector player in providing technical services, leadership and support in conferences/workshops/seminars, evaluation, reviews, assessments and oversights, monitoring and evaluations (M&E),  environmental impact assessments and performance audits. It provides and promotes organisational and individual capacity building/development and wellbeing through health tourism, trainings, mentoring, technical assistance, capacity-building tours and curricular development. HSPC also develops strategic projects and programs management approaches including strategic plans, operational/work plans, M&E plans, activity plans, business plans, and project planning and programs management. HSPC is a major commercial partner of Afrihealth in the areas of Capacity Development and Evidence-generation. In 2011-2012, Afrihealth and HSPC undertook a research on civil society capacity needs assessment, during which civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria's 6 geopolitical zones expressed their areas of capacity needs. In 2012-13, it was the consultancy firm involved in organizing the 2nd High Level Meeting (HLM) of the GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa (GPWNA) and 1st Biomedical HIV Prevention Forum conference (2013). It is the planning and organizing consultant for the Health, Human and Food Security Summits (HEFOSS), and 2015 Nigeria National Cervical Cancer Screening Scale-up Projects – Implementing Partners Meeting.

Till date, HSPC has provided training and capacity building services for staff from the following organizations, to mention a few:

1.      United Nations Development Programme (M&E)
2.      NACA (M&E, Project and Programme Management or PPM)
3.      NPHCDA (M&E, Advanced M&E)
4.      Lagos State Ministry of Health (Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization, Fundraising and Resource Mobilization)
5.      Ogun State MOH (PPM)
6.      HIFASS (PPM, M&E,
7.      Hope for the Village Child Foundation, Kaduna (PPM)
8.      Social Welfare Network Foundation (PPM)
9.      Antef Rural Resource Development Center, Abuja (PPM)
10.  Total Health Trust Ltd (PPM)
11.  FHI360/C-Change Project (PPM)
12.  Military Hospital Sokoto (PPM)
13.  SACA Sokoto (PPM)
14.  Yoeb Consultants Ltd (M&E)
15.  SURE-P/NACA (PPM)

HSPC has also served as organizing consultant for the following organizations, conferences and meetings:
1.      Federal Government of Nigeria, African Union, UNAIDS and GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa or GPWNA (2nd High Level Meeting, Abuja, Nigeria, 2013)
2.      New HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Society (1st Biomedical HIV Prevention Forum, Abuja, 2013)
3.      Afrihealth Optonet Association, FMoH and National Assembly (Health, Human and Food Security Summits - HEFOSS, 2012-14)
4.      Federal Ministry of Health and WHO (Nigeria National Cervical Cancer Screening Scale-up Programme – Implementing Partners Meeting 2015)

HSPC Ltd designs curriculum for various courses on request, and is currently organizing trainings for various competences in the health and development sectors; including (in alphabetical order):
·         Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation (AdvM&E)
·         Advanced Programme and Project Management (AdvPPM)
·         Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM)
·         Community Systems Strengthening (CSS)
·         Fundraising and Resource Mobilization (FRM)
·         Gender and Gender Mainstreaming (Gndr)
·         Health Systems Strengthening (HSS)
·         Leadership Development, Career Advancement and Organizational Management (LCOM)
·         Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM)
·         Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
·         Project and Programme Management (PPM)
·         Proposal Writing and Development (PWD)
SCHEDULES FOR 7-DAYS CERTIFICATE COURSES IN JULY – DECEMBER 2016
MONTH
COURSE
DATE
CITY
JULY
Proposal Writing and Development (PWD)
10th – 16th
Abuja
Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM)
24th – 30th
Abuja
AUGUST
Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation (AdvM&E)
21st -27th
Abuja
Community Systems Strengthening (CSS)
28th - 3rd Sept
Lagos
SEPTEMBER
Project and Programme Management (PPM)
11th – 17th
Enugu
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
18th – 24th
Abuja
OCTOBER
Advanced Project and Programme Management (AdvPPM)
9th – 15th
Abuja
Fundraising and Resource Mobilization (FRM)
23rd - 29th
Lagos
NOVEMBER
Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM)
13th – 19th
Enugu
Gender and Gender Mainstreaming (GNDR)
20th – 26th
Abuja
DECEMBER
Project and Programme Management (PPM)
4th – 10th
Lagos
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
11th – 17th
Enugu

COURSE
DATE
CITY
Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation (AdvM&E)
Aug. 21st -27th
Abuja
Advanced Project and Programme Management (AdvPPM)
Oct. 9th – 15th
Abuja
Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM)
Jul. 24th – 30th
Abuja
Nov. 13th – 19th
Enugu
Community Systems Strengthening (HSS)
Aug 28th-3rd Sept
Lagos
Fundraising and Resource Mobilization (FRM)
Oct. 23rd - 29th
Lagos
Gender and Gender Mainstreaming (GNDR)
Nov. 20th – 26th
Abuja
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Sep. 18th – 24th
Abuja
Dec. 11th – 17th
Enugu
Project and Programme Management (PPM)
Sep. 11th – 17th
Enugu
Dec. 4th – 10th
Lagos
Proposal Writing and Development (PWD)
Jul. 10th – 16th
Abuja

Sgd:
Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje, FACB, FIL, MNIM, ACIPM
Faculty Director & Lead Facilitator
+234 81 88 55 44 14
Suite 216G, FHA Cornershop, Lugbe, Airport Rd, Abuja, Nigeria
Website: www.hspconsults.com