CMB Participates in IREX Moldova Global Libraries Program Meeting

January 17, 2012

The “CMB” Training Center reprezentatives Veronica Cretu and Heath Stenberg, participated today  in an open discussion meeting hosted by IREX regarding their Global Libraries Program that will come to Moldova in 2012.  Directors from the IREX Global Libraries Programs in Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine lead the discussion on libraries and open government with local experts in E Government from Moldova.  The meeting granted the participants the opportunity to discuss the ongoing initiatives and trends in Moldova and the wider region that link library development and open government technologies and concepts.  The exchange of ideas between the participants resulted in some great discussions and helped to assist IREX is planning their implementation strategy for the Global Libraries Program in Moldova in 2012.  “CMB” looks forward to being part of the E-Government movement in Moldova in the future.

“Decisions for a healthy life style” – piloting has started!!!

“CMB” Training Center has started the piloting phase of the optional course “Decisions for a healthy life” at the national scale, in all vocational schools and colleges of the country!

One of the first institutions that has already started piloting the course this week is the “Rahmaninov” high school. Both students in intervention groups and control groups have completed the initial survey for assessing their knowledge, skills and attitudes and only by completing it they have already demonstrated interest and motivation for this course.

Official start of piloting phase will be next week, starting th January 16, 2012 and will take place in all vocational schools and colleges from Moldova.  Piloting phase will end in May, and monitoring of the piloting of the curriculum for the optional course “Decisions for a healthy life” will be done in close partnership with the Ministry of Education. During the piloting phase we will into both contents proposed for the Teachers’ Guidebook and for the Students’ Guidebook. In June 2012, we plan to publish the final version of these resources materials, based on the feedback gained from both teachers and students.

We expect about 3500 students taking the course as intervention group, and about 3000 students being as control group.

More details on the project can be found on our dedicated page for Health Education.

CMB Presents at the Moldova National HIV/AIDS Conference

On December 5^th, 2011 CMB Training Center President Veronica Creţu gave a presentation at the Moldova National HIV/AIDS Conference.  The annual conference brings together government representatives, local NGO leaders, health experts, and advocates that are dedicated toward HIV/AIDS related causes.  Veronica Creţu spoke to an audience about the CMB, Moldovan Ministry of Health, and UCIMP Health Education Project.  The presentation covered the process of the Decisions for a Healthy Life Style course that will be taught in 97 colleges and vocational schools in Moldova starting in January of 2012.  The CMB Training Center is currently in the process of training 113 teachers throughout Moldova to teach the course.  The audience was very receptive and shared our excitement for the project.  CMB was honored to be a part of this important conference and thanks everyone who was in attendance.

“Education for Health” project is implemented in partnership with Ministry of Education, with support from IP UCIMP (www.ucimp.md)

More details about the project can be accessed from http://cmb.md/en/future-initiatives/

For any questions about the project, please contact Veronica Cretu at veronicaatcretu.md

CMB Meets with Senior Program Advisor of the USAID Development Grants Program to Discuss NGO Situation in Moldova.

On November 9^th, 2011 the CMB Training Center staff had a meeting with Shohreh Kermani-Peterson, the Senior Program Advisor for the USAID Development Grants Program.  The Development Grants Program is a USAID initiative that aims to create new partnerships between USAID and NGOs that have had limited or no prior funding from and experience working directly with USAID. A key goal of the DGP is to expand USAID’s NGO network of development partners and provide capacity building support to the new partners. In doing so, USAID will enable a wider range of partners to better meet their constituents needs and contribute to development outcomes.

Mrs. Kermani-Peterson has been on a month-long trip visiting NGO’s throughout several countries in Eastern Europe to evaluate what changes and improvements can be made in the Development Grants Program to make it more adaptable in host nations.  A significant part of this process has involved visiting local NGO’s and asking them how they perceive the overall capacity of NGO’s to be in their country.  CMB was honored to be one of the NGO’s that was visited in the USAID’s visit to Moldova.

CMB staff members gave a NGO assessment presentation and had a great discussion about the NGO environment here in Moldova with the DGP Program Advisor.  The exchange of ideas was beneficial for both sides.  CMB was delighted to assist USAID its evaluation of the Development Grants Program, and looks forward to continuing to contribute to the strengthening of the Moldova NGO sector in the future.

Teacher Trainings Continue For The Decisions For A Healthy Life Style Health Education Project

November 17, 2011

The second day of teacher trainings for the Decisions for a Healthy Life Style health education project continued at the Villa Verde Hotel in Chisinau.  The 26 teachers who are participating in the first round of trainings had a very busy and productive day.  The day started with national experts in sexually transmitted diseases and drug and alcohol abuse holding workshops for the participants.  The experts facilitated several interactive activities and set aside time for a question and answer session.  After the experts shared their knowledge, the CMB staff shared a step by step process of how to facilitate lessons in these subjects following the ERRE model. (more…)

CMB Begins First Day of Teacher Trainings For The Decisions For A Healthy Life Style Health Education Project

On November 16^th, 2011 the CMB Training Center, in partnership with the Moldova Ministry of Education and UCIMP began the first phase of teacher training for the Decisions for a Healthy Life Style health education project.  26 teachers from different regions of Moldova began their quest towards bringing health education to Moldovan schools.  This is the first of four seminars that will take place over the next month, which will train a total of 113 teachers to teach the Decisions for a Healthy Life Style curriculum in 97 colleges and vocational schools throughout Moldova starting in January of 2012. (more…)

Health Education with support from UCIMP Moldova

On August 23rd, 2011 “CMB” Training Center has signed a grant agreement with Public Institution”Coordination, Implementation and Monitoring Unit of the Health System Restructuring Project” from the Republic of Moldova http://www.ucimp.md/, on the implementation of the “Health Education project”.

Project implementation dates are September 2011 – June 2012.

“CMB” Training Center will implement the curriculum for the optional course “Decisions for a Healthy Life Style” in all vocational schools and colleges from the country. This course will be introduced to 1st year students from the above mentioned institutions and will start on January 1, 2012.

The current curriculum has been reviewed and approved by the National Council for Curriculum and Evaluation, Ministry of Education of R. Moldova, on June 14, 2011.

Along with a comprehensive teacher training program, the current project has also planned a series of important activities and measures to assure sustainability of the initiative at the national scale.

More details about this project will be posted early September 2011. For details, contact Veronica Cretu, at veronica (at) cretu.md

August at CMB Training Center

During the entire month of August 2011, the team of “CMB” Trainng Center implemented several important and interesting activities, among which:

- Piloting/testing the list of indicators elaborated for each organizational development component with a group of teachers, educational managers, parents and students from UNIVERS high school from Chisinau. This workshop is part of the “Critical Thinking for Development” project, supported by Education Support Initiative of Open Society Foundations from New York. To see a photo gallery from the event vizit:http://cmb.md/proiecte-cmb/proiecte-curente/gindirea-critica-si-dezvoltare-institutionala

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Moldova@EuroDIG 2011

Ministry of Information Technology and Communications of the Republic of Moldova, in collaboration with “CMB” Training Center, organized  a workshop on “Protection of personal data in the Republic of Moldova” on April 7^th, 2011.

The main objectives of this event were to raise awareness amongst workshop participants vis-à-vis the most important aspects related to protection of personal data in Moldova: user’s consent and information, users’ rights and minimum security measures for personal data protection.

Here, you can read the Report on this event!

And, you can also listen to the impressions and conclusions of the organizers of this event in the video below!