Activities of the first training workshop on Participatory Approach to the Transfer and Use of Knowledge at the Local and Global Levels on the Relationship of Parents and Their Adolescent Siblings with regard to Sexual and Reproductive Health Information opened today Thursday, March 24th. The workshop is organized by the Higher Population Council and Share-Net Jordan, and funded by Share-Net International with the participation of a number of relevant national institutions in different sectors.
The workshop aims to adopt a participatory approach to transfer and use the acquired knowledge to partners on parent-child relationship regarding sexual and reproductive health information, by improving the understanding of this subject matter, which contributes to the transfer of knowledge that can be employed by partners, and facilitating the learning process through a participatory approach and exchanging the experiences gained with the partners, in addition to exchanging and applying knowledge amongst them in this area.
Director of the Studies and Policies Unit at the Higher Population Council, Ali Al-Mutlaq, stressed during the opening session the importance of focusing on a common issue in the fields of reproductive health among partners and developing methodologies to work on according to a specific follow-up and evaluation system, in addition to the necessity of holding dialogue meetings and brainstorming sessions for working groups of policy setters and decision makers and the concerned parties to detect the problems related to the common cause, and to create scenarios for solutions and translate them into practical and applicable strategies.

Al-Mutlaq noted that this workshop comes within the efforts of HPC and Share-Net Jordan in building capacities at the national level in using methodologies of preparing national plans in a participatory approach, as this approach was chosen to apply to the issue of the relationship of parents and their young children with regard to sexual and reproductive health information, given its importance and its link to sexual and reproductive health, which the Council and Share-Net Jordan seek to spread knowledge about; Al-Mutlaq also noted that this includes holding dialogue meetings and brainstorming sessions for working groups of policy setters, decision-makers and stakeholders to identify problems pertaining to the common cause and create scenarios for solutions and translate them into applicable resolutions.
During the workshop, the Director of the Institute for Family Health Care, Dr Ibrahim Akl, gave a presentation on the methodology of the participatory approach, which is an approach to improvement that relies on the dissemination and adoption of available knowledge within a group of institutions to achieve a common goal through learning from shared experiences and from a group of experts in the field of making improvements in a specific area.