Health Programme Planning and Evaluation

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. conduct community health assessment needs and identify gaps {problems}; 2. demonstrate knowledge of identifying and writing of objectives of health program; 3. develop an evaluation strategy/mechanism for health program; 4. develop skills of evaluating health budgets and other financial proposals; 5. identify barriers to successful implementation of health programs; 6. demonstrate adequate skills to develop, implement and evaluate a health program; 7. explain the different types of planning and evaluation; and 8. explain the importance of stakeholders in planning a health program.

The course is intended to prepare public health students of the health sciences to organise health programs that meet specific and identified community needs. The course also highlights the critical issues and logical questions in health planning. The main functions of managements, the implementation function. The supports systems to implement health care programs. The evaluation processes, and the health information format. Skills include setting goals and objectives. Selecting strategies, assessing, and mobilising internal and external recourses linking implementing and evaluating results. Evaluation procedures such as engaging stake holders, assessing resources and developing evaluation question and how to evaluate health budget. Different types of evaluation, formative evaluation, process evaluation and summative evaluation. Different types of planning, Strategic and Operational planning.