Saturday, 25 September 2021

Invitation: The SDGs at 6 - Country Prospects for the Achievement of the 2030 Agenda

Dear Colleagues, 

Invitation: The SDGs at 6 - Country Prospects for the Achievement of the 2030 Agenda

In commemoration of the 6th anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of Agenda 2030, Afrihealth Optonet Association invites to the International Symposium on Country Prospects for the Achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

The Symposium shall be used to share country experiences in the implementation and achievement of the 17 SDGs, and strategies for improvement and accomplishment of the Goals and Targets in respective countries/regions. 

It will also provide an opportunity for SDG actors/stakeholders to present special interventions. Persons/entities wishing to make interventions/presentations are kindly requested to email their intentions to afrihealthoptonet2@gmail.com by Tuesday, 28 September 2021.

This symposium shall hold via Zoom

When: Sep 30, 2021 04:00 PM West Central Africa

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqc-6gqjkuHNYktB7JbfzgOGpjqA-5IHM_

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Kindly share this announcement to your associates and networks.

Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje, CMC, CMTF, FNAE, FASI, FIMC, FIMS, FAHOA, MNIM, ACIPM

(WHO Scholar Alumnus, ASI Fellow, 1000 Voices Fellow), independent Evaluation and Project/Programme Management Consultant

Afrihealth Optonet Association [CSOs Network]/Society for Conservation and Sustainability of Energy and Environment in Nigeria (SOCSEEN)

Plot 520, FHA Estate, Airport Road, Lugbe; P.O. Box 8880, Abuja; Nigeria

Twitter: @uaadirieje; https://twitter.com/uaadirieje

Email: afrepton@gmail.com

Instalgram: @druzoadirieje; https://www.instagram.com/druzoadirieje/

Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/uzoadirieje;

Skype: druzoadirieje, druzoadirieje2015@gmail.com;

Zoom: druzoadirieje2015@gmail.com     

LinkedIn: https://ng.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Dr.+Uzodinma/Adirieje

Phone, Telegram & WhatsApp: +234 803 472 5905

Website: http://www.afrihealthcsos.org

https://afrihealthoptonetassociation.blogspot.com

Blog: http://druzodinmadirieje.blogspot.com  

 

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Afrihealth Optonet Association is a community-focused civil society organization [CSOs] network/think-tank of about 1000 CSOs with interests in the promotion of Health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and achievement/realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially in the global South. AFRIHEALTH Network and its members are involved in Health [Universal Health Coverage, HIV/AIDS, TB, FP/RH and Malaria - prevention, treatment, impact mitigation, care and support]; Vaccinations/Immunizations; Preventing/Controlling poverty-related Diseases; Nutrition and Food Security; Energy and Environment; and Empowerment, Gender/women empowerment, Good Governance and Human Rights. Incorporated in Nigeria as a not-for-profit, non-religious and non-partisan registered trustees in 2003, AFRIHEALTH uses Partnerships/Collaborations (PPP); Advocacy and Mobilisations; Research/Evidence-Generation (reviews, assessment, oversight, conferences, symposiums, seminars); Capacity Development/Training and Organizational Strengthening; Outreaches/Community Interventions; and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) - called PARCOM Strategy to achieve its objectives; while focusing on rural and poor urban communities, marginalized, vulnerable and disadvantaged populations especially women, children, adolescents and elderly; and exploring the nexus/interlinkages between Health, Energy and Environment – including renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy conservation, climate change, biodiversity and ecosystems; Nutrition and Food Security, and Gender, Good Governance/Democracy and Human Rights. Its target beneficiaries include the poorest of the poor, children/infants and orphans, women, youth/adolescents, vulnerable population/groups and the elderly in rural and urban/suburban communities. Afri-health Optonet Association has a Consultative Status at the United Nations ECOSOC. 

Wednesday, 25 August 2021

COURSE REGISTRATION FORM - HSP Consultants

 COURSE REGISTRATION FORM

 

Please complete the form (as much as possible) and email it to afrepton@gmail.com

COURSE  TITLE, PROPOSED  DATE AND CITY/VENUE

 

 

PARTICIPATION (Physical or Online):

 

From where/who did you receive the course invitation?

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

Last Name(s):

First Name(s):

 

 

Gender: [  ] Male       [  ] Female

 

Marital Status: [  ] Single         [  ] Married

Postal Address:

 

Physical Address (if different from above):

 

 

Telephone (plus country and local code):

Skype ID (If any):

 

Mobile/Cell Phone:

 

Personal E-mail Address:

 

Date of Birth:

Country of Residence:

 

EMPLOYMENT  DETAILS

Employer’s Name:

 

 

Address:

 

 

Telephone (plus country and local code)

E-mail Address:

 

Brief outline your responsibilities:

 

 

 

COURSE HISTORY

Have you participated in any of our training courses before? If yes, indicate the course title:

 

 

THIS COURSE IS CURRENTLY PROVIDED IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Please indicate below your knowledge (excellent, good, fair, or poor) of the English Language

Reading

Writing

Speaking

 

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL GOALS

Please write a statement of not more than 100 words, explaining why you wish to participate in this training and how the training will help you achieve your goals.

 

 

MOTIVATION

What do you expect to gain from your participation in the course?

 

 

 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Please print clearly the email address you will be using for the course:

 

Do you have access to Internet?      [  ] Yes          [  ] No

 

 

The Candidate

By submitting this form, I confirm that I have paid the prescribed course registration fee. I shall inform the organizers at least 7 days before course commencement if I am unable to attend this course. I certify that to the best of my knowledge, the information provided in all parts of this form is accurate and complete.

 

 

Signature (or name):

 

 

Date:

 

 

Please email completed application to: afrepton@gmail.com  

 

 

 

INVITATION TO FREE AND SPONSORED TRAININGS – physical and virtual/online; Sept. – Dec. 2021

 24 August 2021


Dear Partners,

INVITATION TO FREE AND SPONSORED TRAININGS – physical and virtual/online; Sept. – Dec. 2021

 

Once more, Afrihealth Optonet Association [CSOs Network] and HSP Consultants Ltd are thankful to the over 450 participants from across the universe who registered for/attended our Free training on Project Life Cycle early this month. We are encouraged by the interests generated via this intervention and thank you for your appreciations and generous comments received.

 

In response to the several requests for more capacity development interventions, we are pleased to announce that we have programmed a fresh round of free and sponsored capacity building activities for the remaining months of 2021. This is especially important for the sustainability of these services. We thank you for your understanding.

 

As presented in the table below, these trainings shall hold both virtually and physically, and have been staggered enough to fit into our ever-busy schedules. We have also provided links/URLs to the curricula of the courses, other services from our stable, to facilitate informed decisions. Please share this in your networks and among colleagues, to enable them benefit, especially the FREE training.

 

For the CERTIFICATE courses, the physical trainings hold for 22.5 hours over 5 days (Monday – Friday), while the virtual/online trainings hold for 25 hours over 10 days.

 

Register in advance for our other trainings using the zoom link below for the free course.

S/N

CERTIFICATE COURSE

ONLINE OR PHYSICAL

DATE

TIME

FEE

1.

EVALUATION CYCLE

Online/Zoom (see above)

7 Sept. 2021

2.30 – 5.00 pm WAT

FREE

2

MONITORING AND EVALUATION (M&E)

Online/Zoom

13-24 Sept. 2021

2.30 – 5.00 pm WAT daily

N99,000 or US$240

3

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Physical

20-24 Sept. 2021

8.30 am – 1.00 pm WAT daily

N160,000 or US$380

4

PROJECT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Online/Zoom

27 Sept – 8 Oct 2021

2.30 – 5.00 pm WAT daily

N99,000 or US$240

5

ADVOCACY, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION (ACSM)

Physical

4-8 Oct. 2021

8.30 am – 1.00 pm WAT daily

N160,000 or US$380

6

FUNDRAISING, RESOURCES MOBILIZATION AND PROPOSAL WRITING

Online/Zoom

11-22 October 2021

2.30 – 5.00 pm WAT daily

N99,000 or US$240

7

MONITORING AND EVALUATION (M&E)

Physical

18-22 October 2021

8.30 am – 1.00 pm WAT daily

N160,000 or US$380

8

RESEARCH PROPOSALS

Online/Zoom

25 Oct. – 5 Nov. 2021

2.30 – 5.00 pm WAT daily

N99,000 or US$240

9

PROJECT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Physical

1-5 Nov. 2021

8.30 am – 1.00 pm WAT daily

N160,000 or US$380

10

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Online/Zoom

8 – 19 Nov. 2021

2.30 – 5.00 pm WAT daily

N99,000 or US$240

11

RESEARCH PROPOSALS

Physical

15-19 Nov.  2021

8.30 am – 1.00 pm WAT daily

N160,000 or US$380

12

ADVOCACY, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION (ACSM)

Online/Zoom

22 Nov. – 3 Dec. 2021

2.30 – 5.00 pm WAT daily

N99,000 or US$240

13

FUNDRAISING, RESOURCES MOBILIZATION AND PROPOSAL WRITING

Physical

29 Nov. – 3 Dec. 2021

8.30 am – 1.00 pm WAT daily

N160,000 or US$380

 

Course: EVALUATION CYCLE (Free)

 

When: Sept 7, 2021; 02:30 PM West Central Africa

Venue: Zoom

Registration link: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpcOCrqjkrG9aosADA6s9lvankXIqqvosO 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

 

VENUE for all Physical training: Gracious Hotel; 29 Okemesi Crescent, off M. Buhari Way, by Old CBN, Garki, Abuja, Nigeria


Virtual trainings will hold via zoom, and links will be shared to registered participants prior to the training

 

Certificates shall be presented to participants in person at the end of each physical training.

 

Certificates shall be presented to participants via emails after each online/virtual training.

 

Click on the link below for the course module/curriculum (or copy and paste in your browser): 

<http://hspcempowerments.blogspot.com.ng/2015/08/modules-of-certificate-courses-dates.html>

 

Products and services from HSPC:

<http://hspcempowerments.blogspot.com.ng/2015/09/hspcs-services-and-products-for.html>

 

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION/PAYMENTS: 4 days before the commencement of each course. Refund is possible in full if training is cancelled.

 

Payment of Registration fees for sponsored courses is be Bank transfer in Naira or US Dollars to the following accounts only:

 

Payments/transfers in Naira should be made into:

Zenith Bank (Nigeria)

Account Name: Health Systems & Project Consultants Ltd

A/C NO: 1013070541

 

Payments/transfers in US Dollars should be made into:

Beneficiary bank’s Name ---Access Bank PLC (Nigeria)

Beneficiary bank’s Swift code: ABNGNGLA

Beneficiary bank’s Account number –36145842

Intermediary bank’s Name: Citibank New York, New York, N.Y 100043

Intermediary bank’s Swift code: CITIUS33

Routing number---021000089

For further credit to:

beneficiary’s account number 0693158350 

(customer’s number with Access Bank) and

beneficiary’s account name Afrihealth Optonet Association 

 

We request registered participants for the sponsored courses kindly email their evidence of payment of appropriate sponsorship fee for their course of interest, to afrepton@gmail.com 

 

Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje, CMC, CMTF, FAHOA, FNAE, FASI, FIMC, FIMS, MNIM
Faculty Lead/Facilitator

1 Taiwo Close, MCC Rd, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria
Twitter: @uaadirieje; https://twitter.com/uaadirieje
Email: afrepton@gmail.com
Instalgram: @druzoadirieje; https://www.instagram.com/druzoadirieje/
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/uzoadirieje;
Skype: druzoadirieje, druzoadirieje2015@gmail.com;
Zoom: druzoadirieje2015@gmail.com
Blog: http://druzodinmadirieje.blogspot.com.ng/  
LinkedIn: https://ng.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Dr.+Uzodinma/Adirieje
Phone, Telegram & WhatsApp: +234 803 472 5905
Telegram (HEFOSS link): https://t.me/joinchat/HQnG4hL5xbTZaMHgCdhIBA

 

 

 

 

ABOUT US:

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Afrihealth Optonet Association is a community-focused civil society organization [CSOs] network/think-tank of about 1000 CSOs with interests in the promotion of Health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and achievement/realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially in the global South. AFRIHEALTH Network and its members are involved in Health [Universal Health Coverage, HIV/AIDS, TB, FP/RH and Malaria - prevention, treatment, impact mitigation, care and support]; Vaccinations/Immunizations; Preventing/Controlling poverty-related Diseases; Nutrition and Food Security; Energy and Environment; and Empowerment, Gender/women empowerment, Good Governance and Human Rights. Incorporated in Nigeria as a not-for-profit, non-religious and non-partisan registered trustees in 2003, AFRIHEALTH uses Partnerships/Collaborations (PPP); Advocacy and Mobilisations; Research/Evidence-Generation (reviews, assessment, oversight, conferences, symposiums, seminars); Capacity Development/Training and Organizational Strengthening; Outreaches/Community Interventions; and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) - called PARCOM Strategy to achieve its objectives; while focusing on rural and poor urban communities, marginalized, vulnerable and disadvantaged populations especially women, children, adolescents and elderly; and exploring the nexus/interlinkages between Health, Energy and Environment – including renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy conservation, climate change, biodiversity and ecosystems; Nutrition and Food Security, and Gender, Good Governance/Democracy and Human Rights. Its target beneficiaries include the poorest of the poor, children/infants and orphans, women, youth/adolescents, vulnerable population/groups and the elderly in rural and urban/suburban communities. Afri-health Optonet Association has a Consultative Status at the United Nations ECOSOC. 

 

The Health Systems and Projects Consultants (HSPC) Limited is a Nigerian management-holding consultancy firm established to provide and promote systems management, capacity building/training and evidence-generation/research and outreach services for the Health (including PHC, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria), Nutrition and Food Security, Energy and Environment, and Good Governance and Human Rights. Incorporated in December 2011, HSPC Ltd strives to be a key private-sector player in providing technical services, leadership and support in conferences/workshops/seminars, evaluation, reviews, assessments and oversights, monitoring and evaluations (M&E), environmental impact assessments and performance audits. It provides and promotes organisational and individual capacity building/development and wellbeing through health tourism, trainings, mentoring, technical assistance, capacity-building tours and curricular development. HSPC also develops strategic projects and programs management approaches including strategic plans, operational/work plans, M&E plans, activity plans, business plans, and project planning and programs management. HSPC is a major commercial partner of Afrihealth in the areas of Capacity Development and Evidence-generation. In 2011-2012, Afrihealth and HSPC undertook a research on civil society capacity needs assessment, during which civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria's 6 geopolitical zones expressed their areas of capacity needs. In 2012-13, it was the consultancy firm involved in organizing the 2nd High Level Meeting (HLM) of the GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa (GPWNA) and 1st Biomedical HIV Prevention Forum conference (2013)

 

 

Faculty Lead/Facilitator: Dr. Uzodinma ADIRIEJE

Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje is a certified Trainer, Facilitator, Trainers’ trainer and independent consultant. He is a Health and Development Systems Strengthening and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Specialist, Writer/Columnist, Health Economist, Health & Environment/Energy/Climate/Biodiversity Advocate, Fed. Govt Accredited Trainer/Facilitator, Evaluator, Certified Management Consultant and Certified Management Specialist. He is CEO/Global Coordinator & UN/ECOSOC Representative of Afrihealth Optonet Association - a 24-years old civil society network/coalition of about 600 member-organizations in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Haiti, Malawi and Uganda with focus on Health, Energy/Environment, Nutrition/Food Security, and Gender/Good Governance/Human Rights using Partnerships, Advocacy, Research, Capacity Development, Outreaches, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E). Among other professional services, he’s also the Chairman, Civil Society Organizations Strategy Group on Sustainable Development Goals (CSOSG-SDGs) in Nigeria; Country Group Lead, Civil Society Consultations on 2020 Voluntary National Review (VNR) of the SDGs, Nigeria; Executive Secretary, Nigeria Universal Health Coverage Actions Network (NUHCAN); National President, Nigerian Association of Evaluators (NAE); Member, National Core Working Group on 2020 Voluntary National Review (CWG-VNR), Nigeria; President, Society for Conservation and Sustainability of Energy and Environment in Nigeria (SOCSEEN); and Chairman, Nigerian Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (NiPBES). He was Project Director of the UNDEF-funded Project which promoted the SDGs in 81 Niger Delta communities (2017-2018). Dr. Adirieje was also the National Team Supervisor and Data Collection Team Leader of the Global Fund/NMEP/ISA’s Malaria Matchbox Nigeria Project 2020 – for the ‘Roll-out of the Malaria Matchbox Equity Assessment among Internally Displaced Persons/Women and Refugees in Adamawa, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states. Chairman, national World Malaria Day Committee 2019 in Nigeria; appointed by the Federal Government of Nigeria as the Ag. Team Leader - Implementation, for Nigeria’s Medium-Term Plan (2021-2025) and Nigeria’s Agenda 2050; and Member, Presidential National Steering Committee and Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s Alternate School Programme (ASP) in 2021.