Facility Governing Committee establishment and Training

It is a pleasure to express that, PBF Rungwe pilot project has enable all 12 health facilities under faith based organizations in Rungwe to establish Facilities Governing Committees.  This was a result of PBF inception meeting recommendations in June 2010, despite being in the Action plan for the project for the first year i.e. 2010.  Now each health facility has a facility Governing committee. In regard to gender representation, at least one third are women.  Moreover, the committees are all trained on their roles and responsibilities plus the basic concepts on PBF. The training took three days in total in three zones: The first zone included five health facilities around Tukuyu area, whereby the training was held on 16th Sept 2010 at Tukuyu Youth Centre, and the second zone was in Mwakaleli, about 40 km away, whereby three facilities had one day training at Mwakaleli centre and was held on 17th Sept 2010.  The third and last zone was for four health facilities around Itete about 45 km away from Tukuyu township.  The venue was at Itete hospital and was conducted on 18th Sept 2010.  The trainings were facilitated by:  Zonal PBF Coordinator and Mr. Japhet Kalindu who is a Zonal trainer for facility Governing Committees.  The training enabled the facility governing committees to better understand their roles and responsibilities in managing health facilities.  It is my hope that they will be an important link for community voice in health services delivery in the facilities. See the group photo for the facility Governing committee training held in Tukuyu.

                                                    Group photo of the trained facility Governing Committees from 5 facilities on 16th Sept 2010.