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Support Project for Training of Paramedical Staff in Mali
After sending a joint proposal to CIDA in august 2003 in
response to a recent invitation to tender, the Groupe
Consultation CCISD and the Cégep de St-Jérome
were chosen to provide professional and technical advice to
the Support Project for Training of Paramedical Staff in
Mali. More specifically, the two organizations were given
the mandate to coach the headship of three paramedical
schools— the École des infirmiers de premier cycle
(EIPC), the École secondaire de la santé (ESS),
and the Centre de spécialisation des techniciens de santé
(CSTS) — as well as the national health board, in
setting up the conditions required to build capacities and
to fuse the three paramedical training facilities into a
single institution: the Institut national de formation en
sciences de la santé (national health training institute
— French acronym INFSS).
In the initial developmental phase, situation analyses were
performed to evaluate the current context (political and
socio-economical, capacity analysis, gender equality and
equity, environment, impacts of HIV/AIDS, risks related to
the Project), and an implementation plan was developed. The
Project is scheduled to start in Bamako in the first quarter
of 2005.
This seven-year project has a CAN$6.8M budget and will
consist of three components, which are: organizational
development, instructional development, and
coaching/management.
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Organizational development will be handling support
activities needed to: 1) plan, develop, and operate the
INFSS; 2) provide educational organization; 3) improve
human resources management, and the handling of
administration and finance. The support provided will be
aimed at both reinforcing and improving structural and
organizational components of the INFSS.
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The competency-based curricular review of paramedical
training will be a key element of pedagogical development.
The training provided in the three institutions will
include clinical training to ensure competency
requirements.
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The last component involves project management activities
and methods, as well as coaching measures intended to
improve project results and beneficiary ownership. The
Project will offer technical support to the INFSS though
two Canadian resources who will work with them on a
full-time basis for a period of three years, then
selectively for the remainder of the Project. Malian
and/or other Canadian resources will also be called upon,
as needed.
For more information on this project, please contact:
Robert
Beaudry
Project Coordinator
Groupe Consultation CCISD
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