HAMU Provides a TOT to 128 Leaders and Members of students’ anti-AIDS club On April 19 and 20, 2013
TOT Training was organized by HAMU as part of its BSC plan. It was facilitated and organized by the unit in two cycles for two days with the objective of enhancing the knowledge, attitudes and improving behaviors/practices of ECSU student community. The ultimate goal of the training was building their capacity to be AIDS competent civil servants when they are here at the University and back to their home or work places of regional states and city governments in Ethiopia. The major topics covered include basics and impacts of HIV/AIDS, policy, strategy public management related issues of responding to the epidemic through mainstreaming, gender and human rights dimension of HIV/AIDS, peer education, life skills, HIV/AIDS and Civil Service, role of civil servants in controlling and mitigating HIV/AIDS in the society and workplaces, etc.
128 trainees were in attendance of the training, of which,8 and 120 were female and male students, , respectively, drawn from different institutes/departments of ECSU. The training was essentially practical than theory-driven in which the beneficiaries actively participated in group activities and come up with action plan for current and future efforts of preventing and controlling HIV/AIDS from civil service contexts. . It was believed that the trainees will be able to cascade the knowledge and skills gained from the TOT training and further scale up the practices and knowledge to the wider community including their peer groups, family, colleagues, and community at large. Similar training will be organized for those participants in different campuses, institutes and departments of the campus.