Sama's Trainings ...
Sama’s trainings are aimed to contribute to awareness building and development of leadership (particularly on health issues) among people who work with community based organizations, collectives, women’s groups in rural and urban areas and young people.
The training and capacity building workshops also facilitate creation of linkages of grassroots organizations, women’s collectives and sangathans with larger movements towards influencing policy and strengthening local efforts towards achieving the Right to Health.
The nature of the trainings is determined by their context and the needs of the groups and range from intensive one-time inputs on specific issues to sustained training programmes over a longer duration and the issues addressed continue to expand and evolve over time.
Our training & capacity building initiatives are carried out through ...
- National level trainings to enable activists, media, health care providers and others to demystify issues surrounding health by exploring the linkages between health and its crucial determinants and facilitate sharing of information and experiences on related issues across groups / movements / networks.
- Community level trainings to build capacities, disseminate information, plan and sustain concrete and effective interventions that have a positive effect on their health, in their local areas and to disseminate these skills to others in the community
- Trainings in schools and colleges to sensitize, inform and engage with young people on issues related to women and health.
Sama has held trainings in most of the states like Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Rajasthan Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh through more than 100 workshops, trainings, and orientations – at community, state, regional, national and international levels. These range from single day workshops to training programs spanning several weeks on issues related to physical and mental health.
The training content underlines key issues of gender, socio-economic context, livelihood issues and other larger determinants influencing health; health policies, programmes and the service delivery system; body literacy and common health problems with special respect to occupational health hazards; sexuality, reproductive rights and sexual rights; local knowledge systems; health rights, women rights, violence; research methodology and skills of analysis.
Sama has also developed resource material as part of the training efforts.