Rationale:
With this
programme, Partners For Conservation would like to contribute to (1) diseases prevention by helping
beneficiaries reduce the vulnerability level, (2) promoting health and the
wellbeing of communities and enabling initiatives that promote health and (3)
prolonging life towards mitigating human-wildlife contamination risks for
sustainable conservation.
About the programme:
This programme aims at promoting initiatives that drive actions for:
- Monitoring health status to identify and solve
community health problems
- Diagnosing and investigating health problems and
health hazards in the communi
- Informing, educating, and empowering people
about health issues
- Mobilizing community partnerships to identify
and solve health problems
- Developing policies and plans that support
individual and community health efforts
- Linking people to needed personal health
services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
- Assuring a competent public and personal
healthcare workforce
- Evaluating effectiveness, accessibility, and
quality of personal and population-based health services
- Research for new insights and innovative
solutions to health problems
The overall aim is to to contribute to addressing key issues and cross-cutting issues pertaining public health and sustainable conservation through:
Key issues:
- Assessment and monitoring of beneficiaries’
individual health within their communities to identify health problems and
priorities
- Formulation of public policies designed to
solve identified health problems and priorities.
- Assuring that all populations have access to appropriate
and cost-effective care, including health promotion and disease prevention
services.
- Monitoring and diagnosing the health concerns of
entire communities and promote healthy practices and behaviours to ensure that
populations stay healthy (Vaccination and control of infectious
diseases, Safer and healthier foods, Safe drinking water, Healthier mothers and
babies and access to family planning etc.
- Education and outreach programmes
Cross cutting
issues:
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene campaigns
- Outreach on communicative and
non-communicative diseases, Sexual Transmissible Diseases, Balanced diet to
fight malnutrition related diseases, Drug abuses and delinquent behaviours,
parasitic diseases, Sexual Reproduction and Health Reproduction, Menstruation
Health Management, Water Sanitation and Hygiene
- Family planning
- Outreach on health insurances
- Training on First Aid
Volunteer for this programme will be working with local beneficiaries and Partners For Conservation field staff including (Project Manager, and Technicians) and other stakeholders including conservation and development agencies as well as the local authorities. In order to provide volunteers/interns with learning opportunities while contributing to Public Health and Sustainable conservation efforts in Rwanda, volunteers may be delegated to join the team representing Partners For Conservation in functions, meetings and other conservation gathering. Interested applicants must be pro-active and ready to intense fieldwork. There’s no-specific equipment required for this programme.
About the location:
The volunteer will be based and operate in Musanze district. Musanze is a district in the Northern Province of Rwanda. Its capital city is Ruhengeri which; is also sometimes known as Musanze. Musanze is Rwanda's most mountainous district, containing the largest part of the Volcanoes National Park and its head office at Kinigi. Five of the eight volcanoes of the Virunga chain (Karisimbi, Bisoke, Sabyinyo, Gahinga and Muhabura) are within the district boundaries. It is also in this district that most of Rwanda's mountain gorillas are found, making it the most popular tourist destination in the country. Musanze's capital, Ruhengeri, is one of the largest cities in Rwanda and serves as a hub for tourists.
It is easy for a volunteer to access the rest corners of the country from Musanze for example Musanze is at 1h drive from Gisenyi and the Democratic Republic of Congo border. Gisenyi is known for its super weekends for water sports lovers. Musanze is also at 2h30 drive from Kigali and at 25 minutes to the Cyanika, the Uganda border.
