Dear Emanuel,
Dr. Tallah, Plan Country Health Advisor/Coordinator
has consented to get in touch with you on this issue.
Please also make effort to reach her. She is very much
interested in this competence process. Please see how
you can work with her to promote the process in
Cameroon. She told me she knows you I therefore think
you will not find it difficult to work with her.

I would have loved being in touch with you while I was
in Yaounde. Please let me know when you get in touch
with Dr. Tallah on this issue.

My best regards.
Ibrahim

--- Forlack Emmanuel <forlackallo@...> wrote:

> Good day Ibrahim'
> I'm happy to learn about the progress you helped
> us get in Cameroon.
> Actually, one of the strong reasons why my boss
> selected me for the Mombasa workshop was my reported
> activities with the community.
>
> as I wrote to Jean Louis after the yaounde forum
> last November, it was becoming indispensable to
> kick-start activities with Plan otherwise -- given
> the the national 'lobby /briefing' was not likely to
> take place in the near future.
>
> Practically speaking, Dominique and myself were
> almost like abandoning malaria competence activities
> -- given that we are not key decision makers and
> those (otherwise) in charge are quite lukewarm
> ............................
>
> I have been in charge of regional malaria control
> activities in the East Province of Cameroon since
> 2003 and I have profited very much from Plan's
> community-based activities ................. I was
> counting on Plan's local partnrs in order to get
> malaria compentce 'through' ................. but
> there has been no head way all this time given the
> national Plan authorities had never had the chance
> to be introduced to the approach.
>
> I happened to be in Yaounde when you came around
> ........ and I would have been happy to join you in
> the 'launching'. This notwithstanding, I am
> available to whoever is interested in malaria
> competence
>
> May God bless You
> Emmanuel
>
> Ibrahim Kamara <ibrakam9@...> wrote:
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> Dear All,
> Please see forwarded mail. It initially failure to
> go through I have therefore removed the self
> assessment result. I find time to sent that later.
>
> Ibrahim
>
>
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>
> From: Ibrahim Kamara
> [mailto:ibrahim.kamara@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:29 PM
> To: 'malariacompetence@yahoogroups.com'
> Cc: 'Esther.Tallah@...';
> 'Winnie.Tay@...'; 'Metangmo, Pierre-Marie';
> 'Tsuma, Laban'; 'Pinar Polat'; 'Augustine Allieu'
> Subject: Scaling up malaria competence+
>
>
> Dear Friends,
> I have just returned from Cameroon where I
> introduced the AIDS and Malaria competence process
> to over 40 people and carried out a training of
> Malaria Competence self assessment facilitators
> training for 34 persons from 11 Health Districts in
> Cameroon where Plan Cameroon works (please see
> attachments). According to the action plans drawn by
> these people they will go back to their respective
> Health Districts, train more facilitators to help
> actualize the competence process in their work
> areas. Participants included District Medical
> Doctors, Local NGOs, Community representatives and
> Plan Cameroon staff.
>
> I have told Plan Cameroon about Doctor Follack
> (one of our Cameroon country facilitators) and Plan
> Cameroon National Health Coordinator (Dr. Esther
> Tallah) has promised to get in touch with Dr.
> Follack to see how they can work together in scaling
> up the process in Cameroon.
>
> Dr. Tallah's contact is:
> Dr. Esther Tallah
> Health Coordinator, Plan Cameroon
> Telephone: +237-221-5458/+2377807537
> Fax: +237-221-5457
> Email: Esther.Tallah@... or
> esthertallh@...
>
> Every one I shared this process with including
> five of our Plan US senior health staff have shown
> interest in joining hands to promote the concept and
> are requesting that we help them join the
> Constellation or at least the information sharing
> platform since I told them about all of that. Please
> let me know how you think we can go about that. All
> the trained facilitators can be reached through Dr,
> Tallah while our Plan US staff can be reached
> through me or directly (in that case, I will provide
> their email addresses).
>
> During the Cameroon sharing and training
> preparation, I attempted to adapt the Competence
> Self Assessment Tool to "Community Competence
> Framework" since the participants were in dire need
> of a tool they can use for general community
> competence besides the specific ones for AIDS and
> malaria which we covered. I told them it was an
> adapted tool and it is open to inputs and besides I
> was going share it with the initiators of the
> concept (The Constellation) for their
> reactions/inputs. Please see attachment for your
> comments/inputs.
>
> We were also introduced to another framework
> called “Child Survival Sustainability Assessment
> (CSSA) Framework”. This framework has six components
> i.e. Health Outcomes, Health/Social Services,
> Organizational Capacity, Organizational Viability,
> Community Competence/Capacity and the External
> Environment. The CSSA involves assessing the six
> components critical among which is the Community
> competence/capacity. As a result, when I introduced
> our competence process and especially the malaria
> and “adapted community” self assessment competence
> tools, the resource persons we had requested that we
> find away of adapting the CSSA framework to include
> our competence process and tools. This a new
> opportunity opened to us since the CSSA was
> initiated by CORE group and partners and the
> document has been standardized. Meaning, including
> the competence tools in the framework, is going to
> be another means of promoting the competence process
> across the globe especially in Child Survival
> programmes and
> more especially if funded through USAID that is
> promoting the CSSA frame.
>
> I am looking forward to your inputs on this
> development.
>
> I will be in the field form now till Friday
> (17.03.06) but I will reply to your concerns with
> regards to comments on this issue. I am also looking
> forward to your own experiences.
> My best regards
>
> Ibrahim Kamara
>
>
>
>
>
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Ibrahim Kamara
Growing Up Healthy Advisor
Plan Sierra Leone
Tel: 232-76-604-878
Email: ibrakam9@...
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