Resources
Training & Toolkits
The curricula our own staff complete, and the operational toolkits behind them. Free to any organisation doing comparable work.
Courses
What we teach our own people
These are not adapted for an external audience. They are the actual curricula, including the parts that assume no reliable electricity and no laboratory.
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Community health workers Accredited
Community health worker foundation
The eight-week curriculum our own CHWs complete before their first supervised home visit. Covers screening, referral, record-keeping and safeguarding.
- Duration
- 8 weeks
- Format
- In person + workbook
- Languages
- 11
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Clinical staff Accredited
Integrated management of childhood illness
Assessment and treatment of the conditions that account for most under-five deaths, adapted for settings without laboratory support.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Format
- In person
- Languages
- 8
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All field staff
Psychological first aid
What to do and say in the days after a traumatic event. Deliberately teaches restraint as much as intervention.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Format
- In person or remote
- Languages
- 9
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Clinical and data staff Accredited
Outbreak surveillance and reporting
Case definitions, line listing and the reporting chain into national surveillance systems.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Format
- Remote
- Languages
- 6
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All staff and volunteers
Safeguarding for field teams
Mandatory before any placement. Covers recognition, reporting routes, and the protections for the person reporting.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Format
- Remote
- Languages
- 12
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WASH teams Accredited
Water quality testing and treatment
Field testing, chlorination dosing and the maintenance schedule that determines whether a water point still works in year three.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Format
- In person
- Languages
- 7
Toolkits
The operational documents
Forms, checklists and templates that took us years to get right. Take them rather than repeating the years.
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Clinic setup toolkit
Everything needed to open a rural health post, from equipment lists to the register templates.
14 documents
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Supervision toolkit
Structured supervision visit forms and the coaching approach that makes them useful rather than punitive.
9 documents
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Handover toolkit
The process we use to transfer a programme to a national health system, including what to negotiate first.
11 documents
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Outbreak response toolkit
Assessment checklists, case definitions and the first-72-hours procurement list.
17 documents
Running comparable work?
Tell us what you are delivering and we will send the relevant curricula and toolkits, including the trainer notes. There is no charge and no partnership requirement — an organisation doing this work better than us is a good outcome.
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