This course provides trainees with knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to effectively manage disasters within the community. It covers the concepts of disaster management, types and causes of disasters, and the various phases involved in managing disasters including prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.
The course also equips trainees with practical skills in risk assessment, emergency planning, coordination with stakeholders, and community participation in disaster management. Emphasis is placed on reducing vulnerability, enhancing resilience, and ensuring safety and well-being of individuals and communities during disaster situations.
- Teacher: Joyline Chepkirui
A Child Welfare Programme is a structured set of services and interventions aimed at protecting children and promoting their overall well-being. It focuses on ensuring that every child grows in a safe, healthy, and supportive environment where their rights are respected and fulfilled.
Children are a vulnerable group in society and may face challenges such as abuse, neglect, poverty, lack of education, and exploitation. This programme is designed to address these challenges by providing protection, care, support, and development opportunities.
The course introduces trainees to key concepts such as child rights, child protection, identification of vulnerable children, and provision of support services. It also emphasizes the role of families, communities, government, and organizations in safeguarding children.
Through this course, trainees gain skills in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating child welfare programmes to ensure effective service delivery and improved outcomes for children.
- Teacher: Joyline Chepkirui
This unit describes the competencies required to coordinate rehabilitation and reintegration
programs. It involves establishing social economic maladjustment, assessing client’s needs, developing
client’s recovery plan, executing client’s recovery plan, reintegrating client to the family and community,
conducting client reintegration follow up
- Teacher: Joyline Chepkirui
- Teacher: Richard Yahuma