Course Description

The course is designed to enhance the competencies of health officials to manage programs, multiple hospital projects and centralized equipment procurement at various levels of the health care systems. This course introduces the fundamental elements of health planning, equipment procurement, monitoring and evaluation of hospital programs in the public and private sectors.

Course Objectives

·         Learn the basic concepts of planning, monitoring and evaluation

·         To use the logical framework in the planning, monitoring and evaluation of health projects

·         To develop indicators for successful implementation of activities and achievement of outcomes

·         Develop appropriate indicators and assumptions for their project proposal framework.

Who Should Attend?

·         Health professionals and administrators in health planning,monitoring and evaluation fields

·         All those having the responsibility for developing, designing, and implementing health projects.

·         Senior public officials, managing directors of private organizations,

·         Project managers,

·         Senior project consultants,

·         Heads of departments, supervisors, personnel officers,

·         Senior government staff, and other personnel as deemed appropriate by management.

Program Schedule

DAY 1

·         Overview of health planning, equipment procurement and monitoring,

·         Evaluation of tertiary hospital projects: issues, context, approaches and challenges in the developing countries.

·         Health planning challenges facing community healthcare system

·         Project cycle - initiation, designing, and planning, and implementing, monitoring, etc.

DAY 2

·         Basic concepts of health planning as related to community healthcare projects - defining, researching, brainstorming, environment, resources, the health care needs of the target community, etc

·         Analysis of hospitalequipment procurement

·         Issues related to equipment procurement.

DAY 3

·         Procurement: traditional and modern purchasing processes

·         Designing purchasing processes

·         Financial and personnel factors as related to the procurement and maintenance of equipment

·         The issue of appropriate technology.

DAY 4

·         Analysis of financial evaluation of equipment procurement

·         Monitoring and evaluation of hospital projects

·         Effective project implementation and monitoring processes

·         Monitoring and reporting systems

·         Issues and challenges affecting health planning, procurement, monitoring and evaluation.

DAY 5

·         Case Studies

·         Group Exercises: Project design and implementation

·         Group Exercises: Project Evaluation.