Projects

URC is partnering with CH2M HILL to help Uganda’s Ministry of Health equip two national laboratories—the Uganda Virus Research Institute and the Central Public Health Laboratory—and set up district labs to improve disease control and surveillance.

Under the Health Sector Programme in Kenya, this activity is improving the quality of maternal and neonatal health services in Kenyatta National Hospital and strengthening quality management systems at the county level.

The Challenge Helped the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to continue progress towards universal health coverage by supporting the expansion of the Health Equity Fund (HEF) system and other social health protection mechanisms throughout the country. Worked closely with the Cambodian Ministry of Health, collaborated with Australia’s aid agency, the World Bank, the Korean International...

URC works with communities and civil society organizations on human rights, gender, and community systems strengthening, providing situational analysis and planning; engagement in country dialogue; and supporting stakeholders to design, plan, and budget technically sound programs. Situational analysis consists of assisting in the conduct of country-context assessments (e.g., legal, policy and gender assessment, community systems...

The Challenge MCC has invested approximately $800 million in WASH in nine countries, mainly in water infrastructure development. More recently, they have expanded their focus into strengthening policy and institutional capacity and working with communities to improve rational use of water, increase use of latrines, and influence better hygiene behaviors. Overview and Objectives To provide...

ANCRE supported USAID/Benin’s Integrated Family Health Program to improve the quality and coverage of the Government of Benin’s Package of High-Impact Interventions in both the public and private sectors. It strengthened the capacity of central, regional, and zonal partners to deliver an integrated package...

Ghana’s health systems and health workforce, in direct partnership with the communities they serve, will be able to sustain equitable access to, demand for, and use of high-quality, high-impact health services with reduced external support, especially in the five targeted regions...

Immigrants, especially migrant workers, experience some of the highest rates of TB in the US. This project undertook this targeted health education initiative to reduce TB disease among recently arrived Cuban immigrants in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We sought volunteers from this community with previous health training (clinicians, nurses, and allied health professionals) to become Community TB...

This technical assistance (TA) project focused on improving providers’ and health facilities’ capacity to provide high-quality TB and HIV diagnosis, care, and management to their patients. URC trained more than 1,700 health care providers and laboratory workers at the local, regional, and national levels across the five countries. The project provided quarterly individualized TA and...

Improved reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition services in all health centers (550+) and referral hospitals (38) in nine Cambodian provinces: Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, Kampong Cham, Tbong Khmum, Kampong Speu, Pailin, Prey Veng, Pursat and Siem Reap...