Health Emergencies in Large Populations - The H.E.L.P. Course

1. Participants are able to explain the Programme Cycle Management (PCM) approach and integrate relevant elements of it in their work

1.1. Participants are able to explain the PMC and its different phases are interlinked

• Phases programme cycle:

• Assess & Analyse

• Formulate & Plan (Design)

• Implement & Monitor

• Evaluate & Learn

1.2. Participants are able to describe different types of assessments and explain the process for carrying out an assessment

• Types of assessment, purpose and intended use

• Rapid assessment

• In-depth /detailed assessment

• Ongoing assessment/situation monitoring/ health surveillance

• Steps to carry out an assessment

• Categorizing different groups of information

• Making the invisible visible

• Stakeholder analysis: Who are they, elements to consider during the analysis

1.3. Participants are able to explain a coherent approach for setting priorities for intervention

• Criteria for setting priorities

• Problems: Type, scale, severity, likelihood of deterioration in future:

  - Risk matrix

• Imbalance needs and capacities /services

• Feasibility for action:

  - SWOC analysis,

  - Institution's mission, mandate & principles

1.4. Participants are able to illustrate differences between activities, outputs, outcomes and impacts in their areas of work

• Results chain

• Examples activities, output, outcome, impact

• Formulation of objectives at outcome/impact level –SMART

1.5. Participants are able to explain the concept of strategy, which is essential for directing an intervention, and the strengths, limits and conditions of different strategic approaches

• Strategy

• Modes of action: Persuasion; support; mobilization; substitution; denunciation

• Strengths, limits and conditions of the different strategic approaches

• Variety of choice of strategy of different actors –Link to subject: Actors in humanitarian interventions /coordination

1.6. Participants are able to explain the role of indicators in humanitarian interventions

• Types of indicators:

• Direct, indirect/proxy indicators

• Quantitative/qualitative information

• Indicators of the population and the services

• Indicators at different levels of the results chain

• Criteria to select indicators

1.7. Participants are able to explain similarities and differences between monitoring and evaluation, and the relevance of these for their work

• Monitoring vs evaluation

• Main uses M&E: Operational management, learning, accountability

• Types of monitoring

• Situation, Activity/process, Results