Health and communication experts from various African countries are in the country to discuss some communication strategies that will help in the monitoring and evaluation of health communication programmes, on the continent.
They will explore pertinent issues such as meaningful indicators of programme effectiveness, differences between monitoring and real time reporting, as well as the basic aspects of health communication evaluation.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the three-day workshop in Accra, the Minister of Health, Ms Sherry Ayittey, urged communicators within the health sector to come out with the needed strategies that would improve the monitoring and evaluation of health programmes.
She said such inputs, particularly in the African countries, also contributed to the development of a resource kit for health communication monitoring and evaluation.
The programme
The programme was organised by the African Network for Strategic Communication in Health and Development (AfriComNet), in collaboration with Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3), a USAID’s flagship global social and behaviour change communication project.
It brought together some communication programme implementers, researchers, donors and other stakeholders from the private and public sector.
AfriComNet Chairman
In his address, the Chairman of AfriComNet, Mr Peter Mwarogo, said participants at the programme would review their various monitoring and evaluation communication programmes with a view of coming up with strategies that would improve health communication interventions, particularly focusing on lessons learnt and various options that could be shared.
