Description
Prevention of HIV/AIDs among young women and girls in kitgum district, northern Uganda.
Assignment 1
Assessment Task:
You are required to submit a 3000-word essay that critically analyses an issue pertaining to family health, incorporating the relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Your work should discuss a particular area/community in a country other than that of your citizenship or your current employment that suffers from a specific public health issue associated with family health that is relevant to SDGs. The discussion should focus on a specific sustainable development goal and discuss a relevant target and up to 2 indicators/targets.
Learning Outcomes to be assessed
• Evaluate the Sustainable Development Goal and debate their implications for a specific low-income country.
• Analyse key issues affecting the health and health care provisions for families in low-income countries in a specific Sustainable Development Goal area.
• Identify a rationale for, and the development of, a partnership plan and philosophy identifying areas of reciprocity, sustainability and good practice within the context of a low-income country.
Grading Criteria:
You work will need to include the following points:
1. Critical analysis of the topic/SDG using relevant research and literature that is relevant to the host country; (20 Marks)
2. Why the topic, SDG, SDG target and relevant indicator(s) is important to family health? (20 Marks)
3. Challenges, barriers, strategies (short & long term) and solutions for the topic/SDG concentrating on the selected target/indicator(s) in the host country including non-achievement of the selected SDG target and related indicator(s). (30 Marks)
4. Recommendations and action for the immediate future should be included in the summary. One of these recommendations will be taken forward to assessment point 2. (20 marks)
5. The submitted work should follow appropriate academic conventions i.e. spelling/grammar/referencing (10 Marks)
Assessment Task: Assignment 2:
You are required to submit a 3000 word essay detailing the development of a partnership plan between your home country and the host country to assist the host country in achieving the specific SDG target and associated indicator(s) identified in the first assessment point.
Learning Outcomes to be assessed
• Analyse key issues affecting the health and health care provisions for families in low-income countries in a specific Sustainable Development Goal area.
• Identify a rationale for, and the development of, a partnership plan and philosophy identifying areas of reciprocity, sustainability and good practice within the context of a low-income country.
Grading Criteria:
You work will need to include the following points:
1. A comprehensive partnership with action plan including where, when, who and when this partnership will work. (20 Marks)
2. Identify the vision, mission and the values of your organisation. (10 Marks)
3. Demonstrate how to develop a partnership within the host country to address the SDG/indicator chosen (i.e. cooperate with a relevant organization operating in the host country). (15 Marks)
4. Philosophy for working in the host country. Set of views, ethical framework and sustainability. (10 Marks)
5. Preparation required to develop the partnership pre/post visit to the host country. (10 Marks)
6. Logistic of the programme/time frame/cost/stakeholders. (10 Marks)
7. Evaluation of the programme (20 Marks)
The submitted work should follow appropriate academic conventions i.e. spelling/grammar/referencing (5 Marks)