Solwezi and the wild Northwest
em breve Things picking up a little bit in Smartcareland. Got a chance to see more of the country a few weeks back, by assisting one of our provincial trainings up in Solwezi, way way way up in Northwestern province. A long haul by bus, but luckily not so bad in our CDC SUV. Big bwana style. Even though in what I know of Zambia there is not huge variance in scenery (read American Midwest), the trip was pleasant. The strip-mining gorges (Copperbelt), road-side fruit vendors, suicidal goats and scrappy pine forests (Copperbelt) kept us travelers from catatonia
Our deployment methodology focuses around these provincial trainings, where the system is taught to local health officials/managers/information officers etc. The idea is then they will deploy the equipment to their localities, training those under them in Smartcare 101. Of course at training as the usual logistical fun and brushfires, but went very well with a very sharp group. The touchscreen technology indeed makes the system mais rapido to pickup.
So that was a nice change of pace, from the office roll. The project has one more training in Eastern Province, and I hope to assist at that as well. Indeed, our PCV clump here is still organizing for direct field support/collaboration in the field, so as the "big" trainings wind down we can focus more on "monitoring and evaluation" activities to see how everyones faring.
posted by Brent at 4/30/2008 07:25:00 AM | permalink |
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