In Tanzania, thousands of Burundian refugees are trying to rebuild their lives following terrible traumatic violence in their home country. Three people – with three very different stories – tell us how donations to Age International help to give them hope. Pictured: Augustin, 66, chats to us in the refugee camp in Tanzania Whenever Augustin walks, …
Four consecutive rainy seasons across East Africa have now failed, with this year’s March-May rainy season thought to have been the driest on record. For the millions of pastoralists who survive on herding their livestock and growing their crop, the dry period has devastated their livelihoods. Crops and livestock are dying at an unprecedented rate …
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The KIEK foundation has reached out to several vulnerable families living around the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and the South Eastern part of Nigeria through the 3rd edition of its Compassion Action Outreach. The 3rd edition of the outreach is part of the foundation’s effort to alleviate the challenges that will be faced by the …
The KIEK foundation reaches out to the vulnerable in FCT and South East. Read More »
Organization Total Care Unit Mission Our mission is to ensure the total empowerment of citizens to have self-esteem to actualize their rights in all spheres of society and thus become agents of change on their own behalf with a view to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Organizational Expertise Adoption / Behavior Change, Capacity …
When Amoin Agnès Akou learned she was HIV-positive, she worried—to the point of considering suicide—that people would find out. Even as she sought treatment, she kept her HIV status secret. Until recently. “My three grown-up children do not know I am HIV-positive,” she divulged during a health club meeting at the Centre de Santé Urbain Confessionnel (CSUC) …
In Côte d’Ivoire, HIV Is Just Another Chronic Disease Read More »
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire — From the moment Dr. Cyprien Nioble enters the Community Health Facility of Yopougon Wassakara, he is treated like a rock star. People call out greetings and wave to him as he walks by—everyone eager to get in a quick word with their former colleague. One woman in her late 50s wearing a …
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The Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation) has partnered with Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption (LTRC) — an initiative of the Brookings Institution and R4D — to investigate corruption allegations involving the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a federal government agency founded in 2000 to facilitate socio-economic development of Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region. Our …
Over the past year we have shared many experiences from our work to strengthen mixed health systems (MHS) including the facts about what information is out there and what has been done related to MHS and private sector engagement (PSE), a framework for thinking holistically about MHS, and our team’s approach and experience supporting MHS work at the country-level. From the outset of the …
Co-creating practical evidence on strategic health purchasing in Africa [Editor’s Note: This post is a prelude to a series of papers on strategic health purchasing on the African continent that will be published as part of a special issue of the Health Systems & Reform journal in June 2022. Before the special issue is released, these papers …
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At Results for Development (R4D), our mission is to support change agents in low- and middle-income countries — government officials, civil society leaders and social innovators — who are working to build strong systems that support healthy and educated people. As we live out this mission, we are constantly asking ourselves what change agents need most from us …
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