Today, Thursday, the activities of the first training workshop on “Participatory Approach to the Transfer and Use of Knowledge at the Local and Global Levels, and on the Relationship of Parents and their Young Children with regard to Sexual and Reproductive Health Information”, was organized by the Higher Population Council and ShareNet Jordan, and funded by ShareNet International. With the participation of a number of relevant national institutions in different sectors.
The workshop aims to adopt a participatory approach to transfer and use the acquired knowledge to partners on the subject of the parent-child relationship regarding sexual and reproductive health information, by improving understanding of this topic, which contributes to the transfer of knowledge that can be used by partners, and facilitating the learning process through a participatory approach And exchanging the experiences gained with the partners, as well as exchanging and applying knowledge among them on this subject.
The Director of the Studies and Policies Unit at the Higher Population Council, Ali Al-Mutlaq, stressed during the opening of the workshop the importance of focusing on a common issue in the fields of reproductive health among partners and developing methodologies to work on them according to a specific follow-up and evaluation system, in addition to the necessity of holding dialogue meetings and brainstorming for working groups of policy makers and makers The decision and the concerned parties to identify the problems related to the common issue, and to create scenarios for solutions and translate them into practical and implementable strategies.
Al-Mutlaq indicated that this workshop comes within the efforts of the Council and ShareNet Jordan in building national capacities in using methodologies for preparing national plans in a participatory approach, as it was chosen to apply this approach to the issue of the relationship of parents and their young children with regard to sexual and reproductive health information, given its importance and its link to sexual health. And reproductive health, which the Council and ShareNet Jordan seek to spread knowledge about, noting that this includes holding dialogue meetings and brainstorming for working groups of policy-makers, decision-makers and stakeholders to identify problems related to the common cause and create scenarios for solutions and translate them to be feasible.
During the workshop, the Director of the Institute for Family Health Care, Dr. Ibrahim Akl, gave a presentation on the methodology of the participatory approach, which is an approach to improvement that relies on the dissemination and adoption of available knowledge within a group of institutions to achieve a common goal, by learning from each other’s experiences and from a group of experts in the field of making improvements in specific topic.