Community Asset Building and Development Action (CABDA) recently supported an intensive 10-day training of Community Health Actors and Promoters in the Ikolomani and Lurambi Sub-Counties. This initiative focused on Community Health Services basic module, with the primary goal of equipping participants with the foundational knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to deliver effective and efficient healthcare services within their communities.
The comprehensive training aimed at enabling participants to understand their roles in promoting preventive, promotive and basic health services at the community level, Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills for delivering key health messages to households and community groups, Promote essential household practices such as hygiene, nutrition, breastfeeding, family planning and disease prevention. This was essential to enable participants apply principles of community health strategy in their daily work, monitoring and evaluation and reporting at the community, promote health and development in the community by offering integrated health services and foster better working relationship with community health promoters.
The training received significant support and supervision throughout the 10 days from key government representatives. Attendees included officials from the National Government Ministry of Health, Division of Community Health, and the County Government, Department of Health Services. The event concluded with the official closing ceremony, presided over by the County Public Health Officer, who represented the County Director of Public Health for Kakamega County.
