Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2011 2012 2013 2014

Details for Mechanism ID: 12953
Country/Region: Angola
Year: 2012
Main Partner: Ministry of Health - Angola
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Host Country Government Agency
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $200,000

The Angola Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (A-FELTP) is a collaborative effort of the Angola Ministry of (MoH), University Agostinho Neto, the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), and PEPFAR to address human resource issues regarding qualified epidemiology and lab personnel. Implementation of the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) will 1)enhance retention of health care providers through specialization opportunities; 2) increase the number of qualified professionally trained health care workers through short term trainings (50 annually in field-based applied epidemiology, laboratory management and public health practice training); 3)strengthening the capacity of health and training institutions to meet accreditation standards; 4) contribute to the development of specific evidence based pre-service curricula; 5) in collaboration with the Avian Influenza program, through a staged process, 10 residents will be trained annually to earn a specialization or masters degree in public health; 6) develop curriculum for training of trainers and terms of reference for the lab trainers to build human resources to support expansion and decentralization of the laboratory network.Partnerships will be sought with the private sector to support students enrolled in the program. The program will be initiated in Luanda; other provincial universities that are now being stood up could receive training support initially via distant learning technology sponsored by the World Bank. Technical assistance will be provided to explore twinning opportunities with compatible universities to strengthen and adopt standardized, pre-service competency-based education driven by evidence of need.

Funding for Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS): $200,000

The USG will continue funding the MOH/National School of Public Health in FY12 to continue the following activities using previous year funds:Develop and implement, along with other partners, an integrated and sustainable training plan to build evidence-based public health capacity;Prepare for the implementation of the Angola Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (A-FELTP) with two kinds of course, the advance two-year course and basic short course;Recruit program staff, namely the Training Coordinator and the Administrative and Finance Assistant;Continue to work with partners to evaluate site capacity and readiness to function as a work-site field training center;Submit research to international conferences for info sharing with peers;Identify supervisors and mentors to provide professional development guidance to students;Enhance linkages between public health epidemiology and laboratories;Enhance communications and networking of public health practitioners and researchers in the country and throughout the region;Conduct two basic FELTP course per year;Identify collaborating institutions to participate in the field investigation activities(sites are being evaluated for capacity to serve as training site);Train facilitators to implement the basic FELTP short course;Register and train 50 participants from the provincial level in the basic FELTP course; andStrengthen affiliations with international organizations, the Africa Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) and Training in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network, an umbrella organization of applied epidemiology and laboratory programs in other countries.