Education and capacity building

Building knowledge is central to authentic partnership.

Individual, community or service development.

Which one?

Education and capacity building start with the individual and spread to the community and organisational level, then to outer systems levels. Or they may start with outer systems first until they eventually reach the individual.

A project or service may involve education and capacity building at all levels or just one or two levels.

Education and capacity building snapshots

National Maternal Child Health Record

Partnership: Supported constituents from the Maternal Child Health (MCH) working group, comprised of UNICEF, WHO, the Vanuatu Ministry of Health, Save the Children and Family Health Association, to assess and broker information to be included in this national maternal child health record.

Evidence based: Worked to comprehensive Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guidelines authored WHO and UNICEF to compile MCH record. Assessed the booklet with rural and urban communities, and MCH, antenatal and maternity patients.

This engagement extended from November to April in 2010

Design, Monitoring and Evaluation Program Coordinator

Responsible for providing leadership and technical support on design, monitoring and evaluation of programs in order to measure impact and share learning across the organisation.

Capacity building: Integrated capacity building into research outcomes to give impetus to World Vision’s strategic plans for 2008-2009. Mentored national staff in project design logic, monitoring and evaluation. Trained field staff in work plan preparation and project reporting.

Partnership funding: Orchestrated a 50% increase in project funding for 2008 from World Vision and Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) to support education, health and water and sanitation projects.

This engagement extended from September 2006 to March in 2008.

Community Development Coordinator

Capacity building: Provided customer service training and support to volunteers staffing a drop-in cafe and op-shop for homeless people and public housing community in inner city Sydney.

Advocacy: Supported the delivery of 24 hour urban education tours and sleep-outs, where knowledge is created through the action reflection learning experiences.

This engagement extended from 2004 to 2006.

Classroom Teacher - Sydney 1993-2005

For just over ten years I taught primary aged children to excel at and cherish learning.

Classroom teacher, Meriden School, Sydney( 1999-2001).

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