As part of the WorldFish Center's Aquaculture for Income and Nutrition (AIN) project in Bangladesh, Mostafa Kamal works to improve technical competence by providing training and small stipends to local farmers.
This multifaceted, problem-solving approach collects data on quality of care, improves technical competence, and engages the community in improving reproductive health care.
They entered global markets with inferior but cheap products, often supported by state aid, then slowly improved their technical competence.
To achieve this, and arguably a key issue in our context, working to build effective relationships between groups and individuals may be more important than improving individual technical competence in such complex settings as KNH [ 38].
To address the gap between information and programming to improve quality and to reinforce the technical competence of providers, we implemented formative supervision.
In the region of Louga, technical competence in prenatal care consultation improved by 16%, although performance declined in quality in both districts in the region of Thiès.
The most remarkable change across regions was in technical competence in infection prevention, with Thiès improving by 28% and Louga by 32%.
It has long been recognised that there is a tension between the role of these associations and networks in regulating the technical competence and ethical behaviour of their members and in helping their members to improve their livelihoods, sometimes at the cost of the public good.
We observed improvements in infrastructure, management of staff and services, record-keeping and technical competence.
Later, affluence and technical competence permitted mapping at larger scales with better accuracy.
