Gambia School Faculty of Training advantages from CHE coaching of trainers course
In November 2021, the CREDD initiated an academic relationship between the School and the Directorate to additional develop Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Well being (ASRH) points, academic supplies, prepare extra academics on Complete Well being Training (CHE) relative to sexual reproductive well being points.
Twenty lecturers from the faculty underwent the coaching. Trainers included docs from the Ministry of Well being, College of The Gambia, midwife nurses, officers from CSO, amongst others.
Michael Hamadi Secka, in his remarks on behalf of the Director of CREDD stated that CHE is the primary of its form, including that he was hopeful that on the finish of the course trainees can be effectively geared up with the mandatory data to appropriately ship the course successfully.
Mr Secka who doubled as a coach assured contributors that the course would put together them for his or her future engagements with college students and assist them not solely in class but in addition at residence.
Momodou A. Jallow, Head of Faculty of Training at The Gambia School applauded the collaboration and described the coaching as important of their studying course of. He added that it’s not solely college students who have to learn about sexual and reproductive well being however everyone.
Phebian Ina Grant-Sagnia, Principal Investigator of the challenge of Strengthening Entry to High quality Complete Well being Training for in-and-out of Faculty Adolescents in The Gambia stated the coaching is supposed for in-service and pre-service at The Gambia School Faculty of Training.
Ismaila Bojang, a lecturer on Gender on the Gender Division and a focal individual for the CHE at The Gambia Collegedisclosed that some academics had been having points relating to the CHE, including that“individuals are often ashamed if you discuss intercourse.” Nevertheless, he stated as lecturers, they imagine when mother and father and academics will not be doing the speaking at properties and in faculties about reproductive well being points, most college students will go astray by means of buying data from mistaken locations.
Dr. JainabaSey-Sawo, a facilitator delivered a complete lecture on being pregnant prevention, unplanned being pregnant, unsafe abortion, and contraception strategies.
Questions had been additionally requested about unwanted effects of utilizing some household planning strategies, the that means of secure intercourse interval, and the calculation of month-to-month cycle illustrated with a pie chart, the delay and bleeding when/after utilizing the contraceptive and what could possibly be the consequence.
CHE underneath Strengthening Entry to High quality Complete Well being Training in The Gambia is an implementation analysis challenge by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Training (MoBSE) and funded by the Worldwide Growth Analysis Middle (IDRC) meant to enlighten and educate in and out-of-school college students on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Well being (ASRH).
