The Department of public health as a training entity for health professionals must contribute to the achievement of national objectives and be part of the logic of the national gender policy (PNG).
In this context, the DERSP with the support of the niche project through the team of Kit Amsterdam, has developed a draft for gender strategic plan. During the day of capacity building of the DERSP staff on gender, held on Wednesday 13 March 2018 in the Department, the representative of Kit Amsterdam, Mrs Lucie Kester expressed her satisfaction for the advance of the niche project at the Department of public health of the Faculty of medicine and Odontostomatology (FMOS).
This project aims to develop and teach reproductive health modules, and to take gender into account in the activities of the department. After four years of collaboration on a project that lasts five years, Lucie Kester, coordinator of the Niche project on behalf of the kit team, recognizes a significant advance especially the development of reproductive health modules.
“In addition to the gender strategic plan, reproductive health modules have been developed and integrated into teaching at the DERSP level, which is beneficial …” says the reproductive sexual health advisor. She also reminded that the limited number of women in the teaching staff at the start of the project has been revised.
“Now, we notice a considerable number of women in the faculty of the department; also, they are increasingly empowered and gender-specific issues are entrusted to them. She admits.
Finally, the representative of the Kit Amsterdam team welcomed the involvement of the first officials of the department, notably Pr Hamadoun SANGHO, Head of the DER, and Pr. Seydou DOUMBIA, Dean of the FMOS, for the achievement of the assigned objectives. . “These personalities spared no effort for the success of the Niche project’s mission within the DERSP,” she concluded.
Ibrahima DIA, Communication/DERSP
