Topic outline
Topic 1
Planning Health Education Programmes: 1
Planning health education activities
The purpose of planning in health education
Principles of planning in health education
Steps involved in planning health education activities
Needs assessment
Health needs assessment
Resource needs assessment
Community resources
Assessment techniques
Observation
Interviews
Key informants
Focus group discussions
Topic 2
Planning Health Education Programmes: 2
Identifying and prioritising health problems
Setting goals and objectives
Categories of objectives
Selecting educational methods
Developing your plan of work
Topic 3
Implementing Health Education Programmes: 1
Implementation
Methods of organising the community
How to identify community leaders
Training
Conducting training sessions
Identifying and mobilising resources for health education
Personnel or labour power
Educational materials
Financial resources
Topic 4
Implementing Health Education Programmes: 2
Message development
Learning objectives
Suitability of the method
Available resources
Characteristics and preferences of the audience
Dissemination of health messages
Recording health education activities
Monitoring the implementation of health education activities
Monitoring health education activities
Input monitoring
Output monitoring
Process monitoring
Topic 5
Evaluation of Health Education Programmes
Evaluation in health education
The purpose of evaluation in health education
Evaluating health education activities
Process evaluation
Impact evaluation
Outcome evaluation
Evaluation methods
Steps in the evaluation of health education activities
Topic 6
Advocacy
Advocacy
Purpose of advocacy
The goals and objectives of advocacy
The advantages of advocacy
Topic 7
Advocacy Tools and the Role of Health Extension Practitioners
Advocacy tools
The advocacy approach
Stages of team growth
Your roles in advocacy
Planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating advocacy
Topic 8
Community Mobilisation
Community and its advantages
Concepts of community mobilisation
Mobilising your community
Equipping your community
The advantages of community mobilisation
Techniques to involve a community
Community relations
Effective networking
The action cycle of community mobilisation
An example of community mobilisation:
The advantages of community participation
Levels of community participation
Community mapping
Topic 9
Community Conversation
Community conversation
Organising community conversations
Recruiting participants for community conversations
Organising a community conversation