Publications

WHO AFRO organizes its Intercountry Workshop on the Regional Noma Control Programme (RNCP) annually, bringing together key stakeholders from noma priority countries to discuss challenges, lessons learned and best practices for scaling up context-appropriate noma interventions in line with the RNCP. In 2019, the Intercountry Workshop on the Regional Noma Control Programme was held in Abuja, on 20–22 Health Organization (WHO) country offices, partner agencies, WHO headquarters and the WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) attended the workshop. Their goal was to share recommendations from the external evaluation of the RNCP conducted in 2018 and to discuss ways of improving both the RNCP and National Noma Control Programmes (NNCPs) efficiently by focusing on enhancing multi/intersectoral collaboration and strengthening reporting and the monitoring and evaluation system.

The workshop was organized into the following sessions: Report on the RNCP external evaluation in 2018; country presentations on progress since last year’s intercountry workshop; enhancing multi/intersectoral collaboration and research; integration of noma prevention and control into existing projects in WHO; and ways of making the RNCP and NNCPs more results-based, including group work.