I'd encourage all managers to ring-fence supervision time, and for that supervision always to include a reflective element.
"Now that supervision is gone".
Both HSAs and managers agreed that supervision is valuable for the program, and that the current levels of supervision are inadequate.
Health care providers reported that supervision sessions were important for developing their confidence and skills to deliver CRAFT procedures to the standard required to complete the certification process, and for addressing their questions or concerns relating to delivering CRAFT in practice.
In Haiti, nurse Beatrice Romela is creating a community of Haitian nurse leaders, and in Rwanda, nurse Manzi Anatole directs a program that is providing mentoring and supervision for nurses at rural health clinics.
But it's not clear that in ten or 15 years from now, they will want to start it up again, or the material that has been under IAEA supervision for the ten or 15-year period will be available or suitable for such an increase.
"I think a lot of it has to do with the colonial history of Africa, the sort of idea that you need white supervision for black achievement, and there's the desire of Africans to reverse that," said Peter Alegi, a professor at Michigan State who has written extensively on African soccer and is in South Africa on a Fulbright grant this year.
It was obvious from the study that supervision is a very important issue for childhood falls prevention, while at the same time different communication channels could be used for raising community awareness.
"The sort of idea that you need white supervision for black achievement, and there's the desire of Africans to reverse that.
Pubs, as well as being the social centre of many communities, provide an environment where people can drink under some measure of control and supervision; for that they deserve to be encouraged not penalised.
