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The organization
started the process of capacity building in close collaboration
with apex training institutions in the country (National Institute
of Health and Family Welfare, National Institute of Public
Cooperation and Child Development and National Council of
Educational Research and Training). MAMTA is
now working closely with the government and the non-government
organizations in the training of public and private health service
providers (medical and paramedical), government functionaries,
schoolteachers, traditional birth attendants, NGO functionaries and
peer educators (young people).The capacity building
has been by and large on the issues of reproductive and child health, RTI/ STI-HIV/AIDS and adolescent health with special focus on areas of
young people/adolescents’ reproductive and sexual health and rights.
Gender and Rights approach is weaved in to our capacity building
programmes.
The organization
has now taken on the challenging task of building capacities of the
126 partner NGOs (in the network) in the 7 states of the country to
take on advocacy, program implementation and intervention research
related to young people. The experience gained over the years has
helped us in extending the process of capacity building to the
regional level where MAMTA with its twinning partner rfsu (Swedish
Association for Sexuality Education) is conducting the International
Training program on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of young
people for the South and South East Asian countries for the second
year in 2004.This involves building capacities of senior and middle
level professionals from government ministries and departments and non
government organizations on young people’s health and development
issues. We have made efforts to see that the trainings get translated
into actual implementation. This includes follow-up of the
participants and organizing them into networks that have a definite
objective. Also included as a part of this process are the sustained
technical inputs to continuously enhance the capacities of the staff and sustain their interest.
Training resources have been developed as well to help the participants and other
programmers working in this area.
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