General information

Title
Project of University Development Cooperation - Own Initiative 2009 - Strengthening developmental capacity for family medicine training in Africa: the South Africa-Family Medicine-Twinning project
ID
XM-DAC-2-10-3008517
CRS ID
2019CO8517
Start date
End date
Activity status
Completion
Budget
€329.522
Actor
VLIR-UOS - Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad - Flemish Interuniversity Council
Country
SOUTH AFRICA
Sector
Health - Medical education/training
Policy markers
Gender 1
RMNCH: Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health 1
Aid type
Core support to NGOs, other private bodies, PPPs and research institutes
Priority partner country
Yes
Fragile state
No
Least developed country
No
Budgetline
54 24 452353 (ex 54443553) VLIR's own initiatives
Finance type
GRANT
Tied status
No
Flow type
ODA
Body

General

- Academic overall objective To strengthen the academic departments of family medicine in South-Africa with enhanced developmental capacity, so that they are able to cooperate with partners (universities, institutes) in other Southern African countries who nowadays do not have family medicine training programs, in order to train trainers in their partner countries in family medicine. - Developmental overall objective To contribute to the health of communities through accessible, responsive and quality primary health care systems in Southern-Africa by educating and training family physicians who provide interdisciplinary, primary health care services, oriented towards the needs of individuals, their families and the communities in which they live

Results

- Academic specific objective To establish within the training programs of departments of family medicine in South-Africa, enhanced developmental capacity that enables the departments to train trainers in the regions in Southern Africa that nowadays do not have access to family medicine training programs and to assist the universities in these regions to set up their own family medicine training curriculum to train medical graduates. - Developmental specific objective To develop a comprehensive vision and strategy that delineates the integral contribution of family medicine and the primary health team to an equitable and high quality primary health care system

Documents

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