On 20 – 24 November, 2017 Alliance for Public Health organised the second module of Harm Reduction Academy, Cycle 4. The module took place in Mombasa (Kenya) and participants learnt about monitoring, evaluation and research. Organisation of this module was possible with the support from Kenya partner organisations: Kenya Red Cross Society, Government of Kenya (National police), Reachout Centre Trust and MEWA. After theoretical part participants had a chance to work on group assignments and apply theory into practice.

HRA alumni from Kenya helped to organise site visits and participants learnt how harm reduction programme work in the costal part of Kenya. They visited drop-in centres, opioid substitution therapy sites, went for outreach to see how services are provided on the ground, visited the prison and probation services.

Here is the feed-back from some of our participants: «Great balance of theory and practice through keeping and showing the big picture in monitoring and evaluation and seeing some of the details.»

«That was really great to have ppt presentations and site visits. They were awesome and I liked the team building exercises»

The next module will take place in Kuala Lumpur and will be on policy, advocacy, community mobilisation and empowerment.

The application for Cycle 5 is already open and everybody who wish to start an exciting learning journey with Harm Reduction Academy are welcome to learn more about it and apply by 15 January, 2018. http://aph.org.ua/en/our-works/world/harm-reduction-academy/