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H.E. Comissions API Participants in Yei Southern Sudan

His Exellency, the commissioner of YEI River County officiating the API commissioning ceremony in YEI Southern Sudan where 57 members received various certificates in Monitoring and Evaluation, Project planning and management, Peace and conflict management and Training of trainers’ courses.

78 Year Old graduates at API

78 year old, Mr. Deng Jor receives his certificate in peace and conflict management at the API commissioning ceremony in Juba. His ambitious to improve Wild life conservation in Southern Sudan, Also in attendance were members from the Civil society organizations, Local government officials and the Public servants.

GOSS Officials at API Comissioning Ceremony

A moment of Prayer at API before commencing with the commissioning ceremony held at Central equatorial women union hall, Juba Southern Sudan. In attendance from left to right, The undersecretary ministry of public service GOSS, The head of Chancery Ugandan Consulate in Juba Southern Sudan, The Director MOEST GOSS Dr. Josephine, the Undersecretary MOEST GOSS and The director of API

EAPI Transformed to API

East Africa Population Initiative (EAPI) has attained an Institute Status, its now Called Africa Population Institute (API).
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Population, Health and Environment (PHE) East Africa Network

The Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) East Africa Network was launched on November 16, 2007, at the Integrated Development for East Africa conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Population Reference Bureau was the lead organizer of the conference and also the facilitating organization for a coalition building workshop.
The conference brought together field practitioners, policymakers, researchers, the media, community leaders, and advocates from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and other countries around the world for presentations and discussions on population, health, and environment initiatives, and to explore strategies and opportunities for advancing population-health-environment integration in East Africa.
USAID supported a two-day workshop on coalition building, which served as a foundation for the Network.
Conference papers on Water and Sanitation:
Ethiopia: safe sanitation for humans and the envionment-human excreta, household and garden refuse. A. Terrefe and G. Edstrom. (pdf, 1.16MB)
Ethiopia: Wichi Integrated Wetland-Watershed Management Project. S. Deribe, EWNRA. (pdf, 1.36MB)
Increasing access to safe drinking water. T. Hunde, WaterAid. (pdf, 204KB)

EAPI Training Courses/ Modules offered within East Africa

East Africa Population Initiative offers a variety of courses on its capacity development program to East African Nationals and neighbouring countries of Southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia Republic. Monitoring and Evaluation course has had the greatest coverage and demand. 31o graduate students have been trained by EAPI at Makerere University Kampala Uganda(the catchment being all the other universities in the country), 167 have been trained from Kigali Rwanda, 112 from Bujumbura Burundi, 300 from Nakulu Kenya. The next M&E Training will be conducted in Moshi Tanzania towards the end of September 2008.
Some of the other courses offered in our training workshops;
-Training of Trainers course
-Project planning and management
-Project proposal writing
-Public Health and HIV/AIDS management
-Research methods and data analysis
-Guidance and counseling techniques
-Family planning and RH issues
-Documenttion and report generation
-Reviewing literature with evidence
-Specialised Statistical packages for data analysis (SPSS, STATA, SUDAN, EPINFO, EPI-DATA, EVIEWS)
-Management and leadership skills development
-Procurement and contract management
-Peace and conflict management/resolution
-Disaster preparedness and management course
-Security consciousness and preparedness
-Communication skills/ techniques
-Customer care and recruitment procedures
EAPI targets graduate students and the individuals from the local government and co-operate organizations within and around East Africa.