Advancing Partners and Communities project: An overview
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ADVANCING PARTNERS & COMMUNITIES
January 20, 2015
Liz Creel Project Director/JSI Tanvi Pandit-Rajani, Senior Technical Advisor/JSI
Our Focus Advance global
leadership & advocacy for improved
community health, including FP
Strengthen NGO technical and
organizational capacity
Expand NGO community-based programs through
grants
Providing Information for Local Action
Community health programs are fragmented.
APC is developing approaches and tools to harmonize programs.
APC is helping to advance global and local efforts for scale up.
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Selection
Scope
Support (training, materials, commodities)
Supervision & management
Incentive structures
Referrals
Monitoring & reporting
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What we know Fragmentation is a challenge
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Activity Objective
Global Level: support
harmonization and policy efforts for CHS through practical tools and approaches
Country Level: improve
the policy environment for CHS by through policy analysis and priority setting
Community Health Systems
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Practical Tools to Assess Policy Work in progress
Audience: Policymakers, Program Managers, Donors, Implementers Purpose: to identify policy gaps and inform areas for policy action
Survey Policy Decision Framework
Audience: Policymakers, TA Providers Purpose: to visually identify policy gaps and highlight areas for policy action
CHS Catalog
Audience: Policymakers, Program Managers, Donors, Implementers Purpose: provides (1) inventory (2) country profiles of national policies and programs
What is the Community Health Systems Catalog?
1. Policies & Strategies
2. Management
• health sector structure
• program description
3. Service Providers
• structure, level, type
• selection
• training
• retention & remuneration
service delivery
Information “Hub” for USAID/PRH’s 25 priority countries
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Haiti created a cadre of CHWs after the 2011 earthquake as an approach to strengthen their health system.
Management of CHWs in Nigeria is highly
decentralized, and community health
policies date back to the 1970’s.
Each of Ethiopia’s health extension workers serves a population of
approximately 2,500
Tanzania has four different community health cadres.
Across India, there are
>850,000 ASHAs who make up one of the country’s three CHW cadres.
The CHS Catalog shares data from countries around the world
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Community Health Systems Catalog .
Source: Wikipedia
In 2010, Zambia trained appx 300 CHWs, with an aim to train 5200 by 2018.
# of country policies surveyed that include community-based FP provision
Provides information on issues we care about
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Practical Tools to Assess Policy Work in progress
Audience: Policymakers, Program Managers, Donors, Implementers Purpose: to identify policy gaps and inform areas for policy action
Survey Policy Decision Framework
Audience: Policymakers, TA Providers Purpose: to visually identify policy gaps and highlight areas for policy action
CHS Catalog
Audience: Policymakers, Program Managers, Donors, Implementers Purpose: provides (1) inventory (2) country profiles of national policies and programs
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Practical Tools to Assess Policy Work in progress
Audience: Policymakers, Program Managers, Donors, Implementers Purpose: to identify policy gaps and inform areas for policy action
Survey Policy Decision Framework
Audience: Policymakers, TA Providers Purpose: to visually identify policy gaps and highlight areas for policy action
CHS Catalog
Audience: Policymakers, Program Managers, Donors, Implementers Purpose: provides (1) inventory (2) country profiles of national policies and programs
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is flexible to support countries at different stages The Process
APC Core Support In-Country Investment
Analyze policies &
current situation
Collect data
Validate data & agree on priorities
Develop
strategy and Costed Plan
Implement,
disseminate & monitor plan
• Decision Framework
• CHS Catalog
• Interviews & FGDs
• Priority Setting Tool
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What’s Next?
Pilot policy assessment approach in 2 countries (TZ, Zambia, other?)
Conduct global consultation to enhance tools
Share experiences and tools to inform policy discussions
Package information into online resource with key data
Expand CHS catalog to include MCH and nutrition (w/ MCSP and SPRING)