The fellow is attached to Young Empowered and Healthy (Y.E.A.H), a sexual and reproductive health initiative and the Popular Opinion Leader intervention implemented by CDFU under the Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG). She will also learn from other CDFU projects. The fellow’s main focus is Behavior Change Communication, Advocacy, Monitoring and Evaluation. These are key areas in the HIV and AIDS prevention care and treatment efforts.

“CDFU is an inspiring Institution with very good approaches to Health Communication. It has oriented me to the scientific and proven community approaches in health communication. At CDFU, it’s a learning environment for Health communication professionals with a variety of skills. I am very proud to be mentored by a prominent and very busy health communication institution in the country!” says Florence Kebirungi Bazirakye.

CDFU trainer facilitating a discussion in Mbarara district.

Training is one of our core services at CDFU; we have experience in managing, coordinating and implementing Behaviour change communication training programs, developing training guides and other materials to facilitate adult learning. The training guides we have produced include those that cover the following aspects: Peer Education, Documentation of Best Practices and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation; and Social and Behaviour Change Communication. CDFU also develops participants’ hand books.

CDFU coordinates and implements training programs for other partners including non governmental organizations and International Organizations. In addition, we organize and manage training workshops on a range of issues including HIV and AIDS, Gender, Malaria control, Reproductive Health and Strategic Communication. We train trainers and also co-facilitate community based trainings. Our experience in conducting community based training sessions has enabled us conduct training of trainers’ sessions for different partners including Health Initiatives for the Private Sector (HIPS).