Abstract

PIP:

JOICFP was expected to hold a Sub-Regional Workshop, "CBD/CBS Management and Programme Sustainability," in Tanzania during October 6-12, 1998; the aim was to strengthen the community-based distribution (CBD)/community-based services (CBS) system serving reproductive health and family planning needs in sub-Saharan Africa by bringing together governmental and nongovernmental organizations and experts. Hideyuki Takahashi (Senior Program Officer) and Nobuhiro Kadoi (Program Officer, International Program Division, JOICFP) contacted several organizations in June 1998 regarding the workshop; these included the Population Council, the Centre for African Family Studies, the International Planned Parenthood Federation Africa Regional Office, INTRAH, and the Family Planning Association of Kenya (FPAK). FPAK said that finding funds for CBD agents was difficult. FPAK had undergone total restructuring in order to become more cost-effective and, in order to generate income and with funding by the US Agency for International Development, had begun training government and private doctors for a fee. It is hoped that future training will include doctors from other African countries. The World Bank and the Kenyan government assisted FPAK in building its own premises on land where it had previously been renting.