Conference Announcement

5th TICH Annual Scientific Conference

3rd – 6th May 2008

Kisumu, Kenya

WELCOME TO KISUMU

Situated on the equator, Kisumu is the third-largest city in Kenya and serves as the focal point of an area of intensive agriculture, green valleys and hills, and occasional thick forest and mountains. It is the second municipality in Kenya to be legally established as a city, along with Nairobi. Kisumu is a business and transportation hub accessible by road, rail, ship and air. For decades it was the hub of transport activity between the coast and Uganda and Western Tanganyika.
Kisumu City is situated on Lake Victoria, one of the largest lake in Africa which is also the source of Nile River. A little further south of the city, you will find three islands, Rusinga Island, Mfangano Island and Takawiri Island all of which have luxury lodges which provide excellent fishing and birdwatching.
Inland, it boarders Kisii town, the center of production for most of Kenya’s trademark pink and white soapstone, while the area around Kericho town and the Nandi Hills is the tea zones, with vast estates flowing across rolling hills. Kakamega town which borders Kisumu to the west, is distinct for its Forest Reserve which has Kenya’s last surviving patch of primeval rainforest, a wonderful cool green cave of soaring trees and tangled vines, with hundreds of species of birds, around 60 of which are found nowhere else in the country.

Conference Theme:

“The transformation approaches to Health and Development in Africa”

Sub-themes:

1. Sub-theme 1: Health Systems Development and Management
2. Sub-theme 2: Human Resources Development and Management
3. Sub-theme 3: Community Based Development and Management

Why the conference?

This conference will address the gap in translating knowledge into practice by providing a forum for:

• Sharing innovations, success stories to inform future approaches on Community Based approaches to Health and Development
• Create effective awareness of obstacles to application of what is known
• Sharing on how to contextualize imported or imposed models for intervention.
• Define effective packages for action in Community Based Approaches

CONFERENCE VENUE

Great Lakes University of Kisumu

Display Facilities

There will be space for organizations to display products, services and literature related to the theme of the conference. Further details are available from the conference secretariat at conference@tichinafrica.org