Innovative Participatory Health Education ‘IPHE’ ™ An approach for QUALITY and RELEVANCE of health professional education Dr. Khalifa Elmusharaf, PhD Researcher in health system & Policy Head of Reproductive & Child Health Research Unit 'RCRU’ University of Medical Sciences & Technology

1. Innovative Participatory Health Education ‘IPHE’ ™ An approach for QUALITY and RELEVANCE of health professional education Dr. Khalifa Elmusharaf, PhD Researcher in health system & Policy Head of Reproductive & Child Health Research Unit 'RCRU’ University of Medical Sciences & Technology

7. Transformative scale up of health professional education

9. IPHE

11. Main Partners

12. Connecting health Research in Africa and Ireland Consortium (ChRAIC) www.ChRAIC.org Lesotho Mozambique Sierra Leone Sudan Uganda Malawi

13. Donors UMST- Sudan

22. The women in South Sudan face alarmingly low maternal health status to the extent that UNICEF survey found that: Girls in southern Sudan are more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than to finish primary school (UNFPA 2006).

23. However, very low utilization of accessible maternal health care facilities in post conflict states is one of the major obstacles to improve maternal survival, ....which is much influence by DEMAND side barriers. Most of the efforts of Health System including International and National NGOs have been done to reduce supply side barriers

24. How could we contribute to re/building the Reproductive and Child Health System?

25. (1) Health system Health System: Let us build more hospitals, Let us train more doctors; people are dying over there. Health systems ( Policy makers, senior officers, health professionals ) do not understand the context, and if they do, this understanding was not useful in the planning for accessible maternal health care services that can reduce the maternal mortality

30. We designed and conducted an Innovative Participatory Health Education Project ‘IPHE’.

32. Local women

33. Local NGOs Employees

34. Theatrical band members

35. Senior officers MOH

36. PG Dip Students

37. PhD nursing Students

38. MPH Students

45. The 4 th day of the training workshop Ready for the fieldwork

46. Time to celebrate

47. They returned to their villages to carry out in-depth interviews in the third person format with three of their friends three times over three weeks

48. De-briefing with PEER researchers Researchers visit them to collect their findings in a series of debriefing sessions

49. Researcher visited the women in their villages, ‘ They Visited hard-to-reach communities ’

50. Researcher is making detailed notes of the narrative data that women had collected.

51. Qualitative textual analysis

52. Key themes were identified and data were analyzed thematically according to the analytical framework. Emerging themes and insights were incorporated into this framework

54. Certificates

55. They became experts in important issues in their community, and form a pool of expertise who can be involved in future programmes. The women were very proud of themselves being able to conduct this qualitative research.

57. Example of the pictograms

58. Example of the pictograms

59. Example of the pictograms

66. At the end of this project the senior officers, students and IPHE’s participants’ understanding of maternal health issues in Renk County was enhanced

68. The local community understood, appreciated and enjoyed the delivered materials since they were tailored and conveyed by their local people.