GREAT LAKES UNIVERSITY OF KISUMU RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT P.O. Box 2224 Kisumu, Nyanza, KENYA 254
May 3 - 6, 2008
We wish to invite you to the 5th Annual Scientific Conference of TICH. This year’s conference will be held concurrently with the 10th anniversary celebrations of TICH.
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
• Identifying effective approaches that yield results
• Suggesting relevant policies to provide enabling environment for scaling up innovation and programs.