{"id":131964,"key":"ECSACONM","title":"ECSACONM","latest":{"id":1183824,"timestamp":"2025-09-12T20:50:13Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Ecsaconm logo.png|thumb]]\n\n{{Organization data\n| type = Nonprofit\n| founded = 1990\n| area = East, Central, and Southern Africa\n| website = https://www.ecsaconm.org/\n}}\n\nECSACONM is the East, Central, and Southern Africa College of Nursing and Midwifery.\n\n== About ECSACONM ==\n\nECSACONM was established in 1990 as an executing arm of the then Commonwealth Regional Health Community Secretariat for East, Central and Southern Africa (CRHCS-ECSA) in the area of nursing and midwifery. The Arusha-based CRHC-ECSA secretariat, which is now referred to as the ECSA Health Community (ECSA HC), brings together 14 regional states.As an executing arm of the ECSA Health Community, ECSACONM is charged with the responsibility of promoting and strengthening professional excellence in nursing and midwifery in the ECSA region\n\nAs an executing arm of the ECSA Health Community, ECSACONM is charged with the responsibility of promoting and strengthening professional excellence in nursing and midwifery in the ECSA region. The underlying principles that led to the formation of ECSACONM, '''“A College Without Walls,”''' include the harmonization of nursing and midwifery standards, improvement of the nursing and midwifery professions, creation of regional uniformity in the Nurses Acts, clear definition of the nurses‟ and midwives‟ roles, and the strengthening of nursing and midwifery research activities.\n\n== Courses ==\n\n=== [[ECSACONM Training Modules]] ===\n\n{{Page data\n| sdg = SDG03 Good health and well-being\n| organizations = ECSACONM, SELF\n| keywords = surgery, health\n}}\n\n[[Category:SELF]]"}