Performance indicators are essential tools for reporting on a project’s progress, informing stakeholders of the quality of the implementation and providing a framework for evaluating the project’s success. However, many public health programmes have difficulty designing programme performance standards and measurements, because they must be SMART: specific, measurable, available, relevant and timely. Measurability and availability are, in particular, challenging indicators for low- and middle- income countries to design and evaluate.
The HIV programmes in Kyrgyzstan are no exception, so the World Health Organization office in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan retained The Union’s International Management Development Programme (IMDP) to design and deliver a customised course on the Performance Based Project Management to help programme staff gain these skills. The course, which focused on using the Log Frame Approach, was the first public health management development training ever offered in Kyrgyzstan. The course was designed and taught by The Union’s Dr Gihan El Nahas and Stephan Rabimov.
Twenty-one participants attended the course held in Bishkek on 10-14 November 2014. They included senior representatives from Kyrgyzstan’s State Sanitary Epidemiological Surveillance Unit and the Republican Narcological Center, as well as country-wide AIDS Center directors from the Osh, Talas, Issyk-Kul, Jalal-Abal, Batken, Chi and Naryn regions.
All sessions were simultaneously translated from English to Russian and relevant case studies were developed specifically for this training. As a result, 92% of the participants rated the course highly, saying they would “strongly recommend” the IMDP to their peers.
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