Abstract: Capacity building in key areas such as data management, analysis, monitoring and evaluation techniques and contraceptive forecasting methodologies are critical to strengthening the sexual and reproductive health (SRH), and Contraceptive Logistics Management Information System (CLMIS) platforms, especially considering the context of sustainable development. Within the time-line of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the World has the opportunity to achieve a grand convergence between the developed and developing World, ending preventable child and maternal deaths and achieving relative parity in meeting the family planning needs of women, men, couples, and adolescents who want to space or limit childbearing. Such august knowledge, has over the years, helped the National Family Planning Board (NFPB) and its national and international partners to be better able to execute evidence-based policy-programme decision-making and mission critical policy-research interface.
This paper aims to highlight the findings from (a) two specific trainings that were delivered by the Monitoring, Evaluation and Research team of the NFPB; and (b) a two-fold evaluation of the said trainings.
Healthcare professionals (N=270) were trained in Qualitative and Quantitative Data Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, the Use of Pivot Table for Quality Reporting; and Contraceptive Forecasting Methodologies across the four health regions of Jamaica.
An assessment of the Qualitative and Quantitative Data Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, the Use of Pivot Table for Quality Reporting revealed that 81% of the trainees formally postulated that they benefitted from the techniques taught. The overall assessment of the contraceptive forecasting training showed that there was statistically significant improvement in the scores between the pre-assessment and post-assessment of the trainees (p=0.000). These values highlight the success of the objectives from the training sessions being achieved. Evidence of improvement in the wider array of the SRH and CLMIS platforms was noted, per the evaluation results.
Keywords: Capacity Building, Sustainable Development, Data Management, Contraceptive Forecasting, Healthcare Professionals.
Title: Capacity Building of Healthcare Professionals within the Context of Sustainable Development
Author: Tazhmoye V. Crawford, Damion C. Grant, Andre D. Black, Marvin Z. Joseph, Collin A. Dosunmu, Jermaine Martin, Kimalie F. Parchment
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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