AFREhealth-CUGH Working Group Satellite

Title: Capacity Strengthening for LMICs in Africa: the AFREhealth CUGH partnership

Capacity strengthening is the process of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities, processes and resources that organizations and communities need to survive, adapt, and thrive in a fast-changing world. The UN links this definition to Sustainable Development Goal 17: Revitalizing the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. Capacity-Strengthening should be transformational and sustained over time. Capacity strengthening aims to empower people and/or institutions to maintain and sustain key skills.

The purpose of the satellite is to:
1. Discuss how to develop meaningful capacity building collaborations, using examples from Surgery and Laboratory Medicine/Diagnostics.

2. Discuss the importance of leadership and governance for strong ministries for health to enhance collaborations and partnerships.
3. Introduce the CUGH Capacity Strengthening database to the AFREhealth community.

Talk Title	Speaker	Time
Introduction to session and speakers	Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde, President of AFREhealth	5min
TBD- Capacity building collaboration in Surgery.	Kathryn Chu, Director for the Centre for Global Surgery, Stellenbosch University, South Africa	15 min
Capacity building for leaders of Health Ministries: Strong ministries for strong health systems.	Francis Omaswa, Founding Executive Director for the African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation	15 min
Laboratory Strengthening in Africa:  What can be done better!	Quentin Eichbaum, Professor and Director of Pathology Global Health Programs, Vanderbilt University Medical Center	15 min
African Collaborative Training Initiatives:	Andrew Dykens Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the	15 min
Discussion and wrap up	Keith Martin, Executive Director, CUGH	25 min