In its efforts to fight against Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV & AIDS and other communicable diseases in Kano state, the Civil Society in Malaria Control immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has trained ten (10) Community Based Organizations (CBO)s and Community Led Monitoring (CLM) teams for effective take off of the Grant Cycle Seven GC-7 that was launched on January 2024 and is elected to end December 2026.
The Kano state Chairman of ACOMIN Dr. Nura Haladu while welcoming the participants urged that to work as a team a golden opportunity will be given for them to excelled in life.
According to him, health services is aimed at serving humanity as such they work closely with health facilities official and the general public in improving the health outcomes in Kano state and Nigeria by extension.
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He assured that ACOMIN will support any government decisions aimed at improving public health.
“Health issues don’t respect religious background, ethnicity, tribes, region or any other thing, so all hands need to be on deck, you need to work closely with attached members, you should know what to do, who to do and how to do anything you are performing,” said Dr. Nura.
In a remark, the Kano state programme officer of ACOMIN Malam Sharif Abubakar said, before, the services of 16 CBOs were engaged and now with the introduction of GC-7 Grant, another 10 CBOs was engaged totalling to 26.
He said the CBOs will be working in five local government area in Kano state namely Wudil, Tarauni, Minjibir, Kura and Bichi.
Also, leading the session, ACOMIN senior programme officer Ipinnimo Ojo Isaac said the training is aimed at providing orientation/training for new Community-Based Organizations/Community Accountability Teams as well as refresher training for the old CBOs/CATs on the CLM modules, tools and SOPs for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (ATM) CLM.
To build capacities of CBOs/CATs on the CLM modules, tools, and SOPs for AIDS Tuberculosis Malaria Community-Led Monitoring.
Ojo who double as national Auditor of ACOMIN said the session will provide new Community-Based Organizations/ Community Accountability Teams the requisite knowledge and skill required to effectively implement ATM integrated CLM at the community level, Have a common understanding of:
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“The overall plan for the implementation of the grant. Communication and reporting channels/structures for the project implementation, Key implementation strategies and procedures.”
“The key expected results to achieve the project’s objectives, to ensure the community-based organization and CATs have knowledge about the project tools and mode of implementation at the community of implementation, to have clear understand of the community resource mobilization to improve community health system, to understand important of advocacy to resolve issues affecting the quality of ATM service,” he added.