Training and Supervision

Performance Improvement Review (PIR):  Resources & Tools for NGOs & CBOs

Developed for the Zambia Integrated Health Programme (ZIHP) by Initiatives Inc., 2004.

The Performance Improvement Review is a self-directed process for improving the effectiveness, sustainability and quality of NGO programs. Guidance and tools for conducting PIRs have been packaged as a CD-ROM to make the materials more accessible to users. The tools address six different program areas: family planning; growth monitoring and promotion; HIV/AIDS (home-based care, VCT, and peer education); malaria; safe motherhood; and water and sanitation, and are designed for use by Program Managers, Donors, District Health Management Teams, and Trainers.

  (Available as interactive CD only.)

Integrated Technical Guidelines for Frontline Healthworkers (2nd ed.)

Produced for the Central Board of Health in Zambia, with support from the USAID-funded Zambia Integrated Health Programme, Component 3 (ZIHP-Systems). Initiatives Inc. and ZIHP, July 2002.

The Integrated Technical Guidelines (ITGs) outline key interventions for each of the technical areas of the Basic Health Care Package (BHCP), as well as the minimum standards of performance expected at community, health post, and health centre levels. These guidelines are intended to enhance frontline healthworkers' knowledge about the most important health problems in Zambia, and cost-effective interventions to tackle these problems. Use of these guidelines should improve the ability of frontline health workers to promote health and prevent illness, including proper case management and referrals, and thereby contribute to the attainment of the ultimate goal of "Better Health for all Zambians."

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Strengthening of Supportive Supervision in the SNNPR Health Sector (Ethiopia): Phase 1 Report and Trainers' Guide of the workshop held at the Furra Training Centre, Yirgalem.

Produced by Initiatives Inc. for ESHE/JSI Awasa Ethiopia, 2002.

This workshop report contains the background, guidance and tools from the Supportive Supervision Workshop conducted for supervisory staff in the SNNPR region of Ethiopia. The Facilitators' Guide provides guidance and tools for local trainers to organize, manage and lead workshop activities focused on improving supportive supervision. It includes a workshop schedule, objectives, session guide and detailed notes, overhead transparency formats, and interactive session outlines (such as role-plays).

• Strengthening of Supportive Supervision in the SNNPR Health Sector (Ethiopia): Phase 1.
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• Facilitators' Guide – Strengthening of Supervision Management in the Health Sector SNNPR (Ethiopia): Phase 1.
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Integrating Reproductive Health Into NGO Programs Volume 1: Family Planning Trainer's Guide

Developed for the SEATS Project by Joyce V. Lyons, Jenny Huddart and Donna Bjerregaard, Initiatives Inc., 1999.

A guide to organizing training of trainers (TOT) and Integration workshops. Part One focuses on how to organize Integration and TOT workshops, Part Two provides guidance on conducting the Integration workshop and Part Three comprises the TOT Workshop structure and implementation guidelines.