Overview
The Global Capacity Building Programme is supported by Global Health Partnerships – GHP (formerly Tropical Health and Education Trust - THET). This programme is implemented by the partnership between Nottingham Trent University and Makerere University School of Public Health, in collaboration with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Wakiso District Local Government, with support from the Ministry of Health Uganda.
Activity
January 2025 - Leadership and Management Fellowship for Health Managers in Wakiso District, Uganda.
Following a 3-day intense leadership and management workshop for health managers in Wakiso District held in June 2024 for the project titled: Enhancing leadership and management of local government health managers in Wakiso District, Uganda, a 6-month online fellowship for these managers was undertaken for continued mentorship.
The health managers are in-charges of health centres (IVs, IIIs and IIs) in the district. The fellowship started on 18th July 2024 with an orientation session and introduction of the participants to the Zoom Meetings application, the main platform used for delivering the online engagements.
These sessions were held every second Thursday of the month from 3:00pm to 4:30pm, as proposed by the managers. The sessions were facilitated by experts from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and tackled critical topics suggested by the health managers during the orientation session.
These topics included risk management, attendance management, data and information management, and finance management. The sessions were enriched by practical case studies and examples to ensure relevance and applicability to the managers’ working environments.
June 2024 - Uganda Visit
More than 50 health managers from Wakiso District in Central Uganda gained invaluable skills during a three-day workshop training on leadership and management. The training, part of a project titled "Strengthening leadership and management competencies among local government health managers in Wakiso District," aimed to improve healthcare service delivery across Uganda.
July 2024 - UK VISIT
NTU in collaboration with Buckinghamshire NHS Health Care Trust and Nottingham University Hospitals hosted a delegation of seven Ugandan colleagues in the UK, as part of the GCBP.
The three-week visit included activities such as grant writing, conference presentations, and meetings with institutional colleagues and future partners.
Grants and Funding
- Funding Body: Global Health Partnerships – GHP (formerly Tropical Health and Education Trust - THET).
- Total Funds Received from Funder: £50,000
*This project is funded by NHS England, for the benefit of the UK and partner country health sectors.
Countries
Uganda and U.K
Key Themes of our Global Health Work
- Inequalities & social justice; gender; social enterprise
- Ecological thinking
- Moving health systems up stream – health promotion comprehensive primary health care ; social model of health
- Working at the boundaries – visible /invisible; formal /informal: Challenging the power structures; valuing different forms of knowledge
- Research with impact; that makes a difference
- Partnership leadership investment
Related EAC Research and Partnership Page
Team members
- Prof Linda Gibson, NTU-MAK Partnership Lead(UK)
- Dr David Musoke, NTU-MAK Partnership Lead (Uganda)
- Russell Pitchford, Nottingham University Hospitals (UK)
- Richard Holder, Nottingham University Hospitals (UK)
- Bonny Natukunda, Wakiso District Senior Health Educator (Uganda)
- Mathias Lugoloobi, Medical officer at Wakiso District Council District health officer (Uganda)
- Michael Obeng Brown, Research Associate, NTU
- Grace Biyinzika Lubega, NTU