Projects

Managed the health, nutrition, and WASH components of this project to increase the resilience of chronically vulnerable people, households, communities, and systems in targeted agricultural areas in Niger and Burkina Faso. Resilience was achieved through increased and sustainable well-being, strengthened institutions and governance, and improved health, nutrition, and WASH. Achievements

Overview and Objectives The World Bank has been implementing the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF) in Zimbabwe since 2008. The fund’s objective is to design and implement sustainable, results-based financing (RBF) programs to improve the quality of health care and health outcomes. The HRITF is financing RBF pilot interventions—both supply-side (e.g., provider payment schemes,...

The Challenge Improve the nutritional status of children under two by linking nutrition-sensitive economic and food-security activities with nutrition-specific interventions. Overview and Objectives Formally launched on June 5, 2013, the Feed the Future Zambia Mawa (Mawa) project aimed to improve food and economic security for 21,500 households in Chipata and Lundazi districts in Zambia’s Eastern...

Provided technical assistance to PATH on PMTCT services in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

ASSIST built on the work of the USAID Health Care Improvement Project. ASSIST operated in over 40 countries, supporting quality improvement efforts for HIV and AIDS, MNCH, malaria, tuberculosis, Zika, orphans and vulnerable children, and non-communicable disease services at both facility and community levels...

Overview and Objectives URC is a partner to RECO Industries, Ltd., supporting the production and distribution of therapeutic and supplementary foods to reduce malnutrition in vulnerable children, pregnant and lactating women, and adults living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. The project focuses on increasing the range and market reach of the food products, improving product supply...

Overview and Objectives Two separate initiatives (Muskoka Initiative I & Muskoka Initiative II) where URC reduced maternal and newborn mortality and increased family planning uptake in two health zones (Couffo and Borgou) of Benin through clinical systems improvements and community engagement, with a focus on gender. Specifically, URC improved the quality of reproductive health services...

The Challenge Partner with Niger’s Ministry of Health to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of expanding a proven maternal and newborn care improvement approach to 218 public maternity hospitals, 95% of such facilities in the country. Overview and Objectives Evaluated prospectively the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the scale-up of a high impact intervention package...

[pods]{@ID,get_the_post_thumbnail_caption}[/pods] Overview and Objectives Building on the efforts of the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) to address the high under five morbidity and mortality rate in the Lake Zone (which is closely linked to the lack of successful child survival interventions, including malaria control efforts in the region), the USAID Diagnosis and...

Accelerated delivery of proven, low-cost child health interventions in three health zones in the Benin departments of Collines and Atlantique.