District Health Management Tools

Facilitator’s Manual
Dr. Barbara Kloss-Quiroga (Ed.)
Berlin 2004

Since 1992, InWEnt - Public Health Division (formerly DSE/Public Health Promotion Centre) has organised management trainings for health managers from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. The positive feedback and great demand for this training programme led to the idea to develop a training manual to reach a wider audience. Assembling ten years of experience, this manual compiles the most successful training units and strategies.

The manual is intended to be used as a training guide and source of information and reference by trainers, facilitators or presenters who will have some experience with District Health Management. It contains background readings as well as descriptions of procedures, teaching materials, instructions and proposals for possible further action. It answers practical questions on how to organise the training sessions, how to employ convenient methods, how to convey specific contents to name only a few.

The following pages introduce the rationale and approach of the training course, the structure of the manual, and summarise training contents and objectives of each training module. Module 5 presents not only a summary but also provides detailed background information for facilitators/trainers, a description of the procedures, as well as selected exercises, handouts and transparencies taken from the manual.

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