30th November, 2011
AMREF will on 2nd December, 2011 hold it's 25th Graduation ceremony at the International Training Centre in Nairobi.
AMREF builds the capacity of health workers in collaboration with Local and international universities as well as other NGOs to contribute to the scaling up of Africa’s human resource for health. The Directorate of Capacity Building is partnering with Nursing Council of Kenya to upgrade enrolled nurses through the eLearning Model. This Model is also being replicated in Uganda and Tanzania.
The directorate is also recognized as a Continuous Professional Development provider by the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board.
This year, 1,092 health and development workers from 20 African countries have been trained in over 23 short courses for continuous professional development. In this graduation, 49 health and development workers will be graduating with a certificate in Monitoring and evaluation. 86 nurses will also be graduating from the AMREF Virtual School and 12 health workers from six African countries will be graduating with diplomas in community health which is accredited to Moi University.
The directorate is also partnering with Kenya Methodist University to train health workers for a Bachelor of Science in community health and with Moi University for Master of Public Health.
