The Training Resource Package website management is shifting from the K4Health Project to SHOPS Plus.
Changes are coming to this website—but we hope you won’t even notice! The Training Resource Package for Family Planning (TRP) has been housed here at www.fptraining.org since November of 2012. The site was built by, and has since been managed by, staff of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) under the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project. K4Health will end on September 10, 2019, but the TRP website will remain available, now managed by the SHOPS Plus Project.
We are excited to once again feature USHAPE (Uganda Sexual Health and Pastoral Education) on the Family Planning Training Resource Package website as it begins a new chapter under the management of the Margaret Pyke Trust. The Margaret Pyke Trust is based in the United Kingdom and has around 50 years of history providing sexual and reproductive health services along with implementing research and training for health care workers. They have the broadest range of sexual and reproductive health training courses in the UK for health care staff. In the last few years, the Margaret Pyke Trust have started working internationally to address the need to advance sexual and reproductive health services and trainings in low- to middle-income countries. Taking over the management of USHAPE only seemed natural, since USHAPE was originally created by UK based volunteer doctors. It has been an optimistic transition for USHAPE to come under the Margaret Pyke Trust as there has been a continued effort to increase capacity of USHAPE’s training programs.
Hands on training: Ms. Mercy Mwanja, one of the participants, during one of the practical session of the training.
The open-access, peer-reviewed journal Global Health: Science and Practice has included an article on the TRP in its early-release items in advance of its September 2018 issue. "Adaptation of the Training Resource Package to Strengthen Preservice Family Planning Training for Nurses and Midwives in Tanzania and Uganda," by Stembile Mugore, Mercy Mwanja, Vumilia Mmari, and Alphonce Kalula, summarizes lessons learned from the process of adapting portions of the TRP for specific audiences. Lessons learned include "(1) engage key nursing and midwifery educators for buy-in; (2) update the technical skills of educators in contraceptive technology and competency-based training methods; and (3) adapt to the local context including condensing the global content for the time-limited preservice education context."
Juliet Zawedde, a reproductive health teacher with Kibuli School of Nursing in Uganda, blogs about her use of a new suite of materials developed by Pathfinder International’s Evidence to Action Project. The materials have been used during pre-service education to improve the capacity of up-and-coming members of Uganda's family planning health workforce.