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The South Sudan Covid-19 Emergency Response and Health system Preparedness project South Sudan’s health system continues to suffer the effects of decades of conflict and recurrent effects bad weather and Covid 19 pandemic has stretched it further. Structures are weakened including leadership and governance, health care financing, commodities and supplies, human resources for health, service delivery, and health information systems. Even where health facilities are available, access and utilization are also not optimal given the many demand side barriers including weak community structures, poor roads especially during rainy seasons, insecurity, poverty and negative social cultural factors. Given this scenario, South Sudan has one of the worst health indicators globally. The country has a maternal mortality ratio of 1150 per 100,000 live births, and an equally high neonatal and under five mortality rates at 38.6 and 96.2 per 1000 live births, respectively. There is low health service utilization rate at 0.60 and poor coverage of critical services such penta 3 (33%) and facility-based deliveries (19.4%). The package of services and scope of activities to be supported include:
1.	Covid 19 emergency response including risk communication, surveillance and contact tracing, case management and vaccine administration	
2.	Child health services: Health education; routine immunization; integrated management of neonatal and childhood illnesses (IMNCI) and rapid response and referral for complicated cases; LLITNs distribution; vitamin A supplementation; promotion of adequate infant and young child feeding behaviors; nutrition screening and referral to nutrition therapeutic programs.
3.	Maternal and neonatal health services: Health education; antenatal care, skilled delivery, postnatal care of mothers and newborns, family planning, and referral to secondary health services.
4.	Basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care: To be delivered at the PHCC Center and hospital level.
5.	Sexual and gender-based violence services: Identification, counselling, management and proper referral for victims of SGBV, including rape victims
6.	Distribution of essential medicines and supplies procured by UNICEF
7.	Emergency preparedness and response: Building the capacity of partners to detect, assess and respond to health needs in the event of emergencies and disease outbreaks. 
8.	Disease surveillance and outbreak response: In line with the nationwide Integrated Disease Surveillance Response (IDSR) and Early Warning Alert and Response (EWARS) systems.
9.	Quality improvement and supervision: In-service training; continuous quality improvement activities; infection prevention activities; supportive supervision; and promotion of procedures for proper waste management and disposal of sharps and other waste. Maternal child health project targeting pregnant women,children,male,female,adolescent and persons with disability. This is an inclusive programme offering health support and strengthening of the health system in Upper Nile Fashoda and Manyo counties.
CMDRR training and pilot project in Afghanistan Cordaid and local organisation RRAA are present in Balkh province (the target area for this pilot project) for more than a decade through implementation of emergency and development projects in 5 districts (Dawlatabad, Khulm, Dehdadi, Balkh and Chimtal). Since mid-2007 RRAA is implementing more structural development programs with the aim of institutional capacity building of agriculture and livestock cooperatives and access to micro credit (15,000 USD/Cooperatives) and other interventions in supporting agriculture and livestock. The current program can build on this presence and good relationships within the communities.

Recently, Cordaid Afghanistan gained experience in a program with resilience aspects. In 2015, Cordaid together with other international organizations (Caritas Germany and Catholic Relief and Service) developed a joint program funded by the Ministry Foreign Affairs of Germany. The program is implemented in 5 provinces, including Balkh and is called ‘Mitigating Migration Causes by Strengthening Local Coping Strategies in 2 districts of Balkh province’ with an implementation period of August 2016 – December 2018. Cordaid and RRAA have gained good experiences and lessons learnt during the past two years of this German AA (Auswartiges Amt- Federal Foreign Office of German) project. Some of the results of this project are:

-	Establishment of 55 loan groups. They received 10,000 Euro per group as revolving fund, by which they have generated net profit of about 67,368 EUR (5,658,947 AFN). 
-	Job creation for about 1650 individuals through access to loan (zero interest)
-	Prevention of 200 migration cases outside country through loan provision
-	Avoided destruction of agricultural land and houses through construction of protection- and retaining walls
-	Improved water-management through construction of aqueducts and canals, access to drinking water through digging of wells and installation of solar pumps. 
-	Enhanced knowledge and skills of targeted community on WASH practices
-	Increased agriculture and livestock productivity (information from-project progress report and midline reflection report Dec 2017). Vulnerable social groups secure and resilient with livelihoods and have increased disaster risk reduction capacity, in 8 communities in Balkh province. 1000 direct beneficiaries and 6000 indirect beneficiaries
Etude nationale de la Sécurité Alimentaire RCA 2019 (Sud-Est) La République Centrafricaine (RCA) souffre de carences structurelles profondes qui se sont aggravées avec les crises qui ont affecté le pays depuis 2013. Classée en 188ème place sur 189 pays selon l’Indice de Développement Humain (IDH 2018), la République Centrafricaine a connu une crise en 2013 qui a entraîné une crise sécuritaire majeure et a causé une chute de 37% du Produit Intérieur Brut (PIB). 
La majorité de la population vit sous le seuil de pauvreté, le chômage est élevé, l'accès aux services d’éducation et de santé de base n'est pas assuré, il existe de très fortes inégalités et l'espérance de vie à la naissance est la deuxième plus faible au monde.
Cela empêche les ménages d’accéder à leurs cultures, de pratiquer la chasse et la cueillette, et de poursuivre les activités préparatoires de la saison agricole, limitant ainsi les revenus des travailleurs journaliers (dans l’analyse courante) et mettant en péril les récoltes C’est sur la base de ces éléments susmentionnés, considérant les différents besoins d’informations programmatiques du gouvernement, des partenaires ainsi que du PAM et de la nécessité d’actualiser les données de la sécurité alimentaire en Centrafrique ; que cette nouvelle « Enquête Nationale sur la Sécurité Alimentaire (ENSA) en RCA » est mise en œuvre par le gouvernement et le PAM en collaboration avec la FAO et les ONG partenaires réunies au sein du Cluster Sécurité Alimentaire. L’objectif global de cette évaluation est de procéder à une mise à jour des indicateurs clé de la sécurité alimentaire afin d’appréhender la situation courante de la sécurité alimentaire des ménages, de même que son évolution au cours des 12 derniers mois Les bénéficiaires sont entre autres : femmes, des filles, des garçons et des hommes, ainsi que des commerçants féminins et masculins, ayant une vulnérabilité poussée sous le seuil de pauvreté, le chômage est élevé, l'accès aux services d’éducation et de santé de base n'est pas assuré, 
Les ménages ayant une consommation alimentaire très déficiente (très peu diversifiée et insuffisante), ils sont très vulnérables économiquement et recourent à des stratégies de survie de crise et d’urgence qui menacent irréversiblement leurs moyens d’existence futurs.
Produits livrables et rapports
Herat Eartquake Joint Response - Joint Budget Multiple earthquakes happened in Herat province in the beginning of October 2023. villages around the epicentres have been completely destroyed, and over 250.000 have been affected and are in need of assitance as they lost their homes, their income and livelihoods The Herat Earthquakes  Joint Response partners will provide support for basic needs after the onset of the crisis, and also will provide early recovery assistance households and communities affected by the households, including female, child and elderly headed households, as well as households with PLWD, and large households.
Skills building for (student-) midwives in a public-private reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Afar region. Multi-level intervention: 
-	Nine community, including training of skilled TBAs, FHWs, HEWs
-	Two governmental Health centres, including health staff
-	One district referral hospital, including Obs/Gyn staff
-	Semara University, staff and students of the BScMidwifery and HEW course Indirect: 
Pregnant women, women delivering, newborns till 1 month of age. 
Direct:
All levels of health staff in the health system involved with reproductive health care in the catchment area
Midwifery students -  BSc  SU & Diploma students
Safe water supply to refugees living in settlements North Uganda Since the outbreak of the conflict in South Sudan in December 2013, Uganda has experienced increasing numbers of refugees, especially in West Nile Region, the oldest refugee hosting district of northern Uganda since the 1970's. The recently completed verification exercise of all refugees in Uganda by OPM and UNHCR (October 2018), did not change the known trend: Over a million refugees are present in Uganda (1,091,024). The vast majority are South Sudanese (73%). New influx is still registered to date and very few returns are expected considering the highly fragile peace agreement in South Sudan. Uganda is the third largest refugee hosting country in the world.

Uganda has an exemplary and progressive refugee legislation. Uganda’s refugee legislation, the 2006 Refugees Act, promotes refugee self-reliance and favours a development-based approach to refugee assistance. This has been emphasized further by the 2010 Refugee Regulations. It is providing refugees with freedom of movement, the right to work and establish businesses, the right to documentation and access to national social services. The country pursues a non-camp settlement policy, by which refugees are allocated plots of land for shelter and agricultural production, stretching out over vast territories. Whilst providing the basis for refugee self-reliance in the longer term, the settlement approach typically incurs higher up-front costs than that of a camp environment, when basic life-saving provisions are to be established. 

Arua District has a (original host) population of 846,491 and a refugee population of 151,439, which is 15% of the total population of Arua District, as per UNHRC website. Increased access to adequate and water supply for Refugees and Host Communities in a Regugee Settlement The  project has reached 2031 direct beneficiaries against the target of 2500
Jobs, skills and Education and  Sexual and Reproductive Health (JSE-SRH) Project With over two million youth entering the workforce every year, there is significant demographic pressure on Ethiopia’s economy. As a result, a growing number of Ethiopians look for job opportunities in urban areas or migrate abroad. According to NMFE (2020), this is especially common in Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar, two urban centres that have seen an influx of rural-urban migration among young people looking for employment but who lack employability skills and job training and experience. According to the data obtained from Bahir Dar city administration labor and training department, in 2021 the number of youths between the age of 15 and 29 reaches 46,897 and out of this 14,935 were unemployed. This indicates about 32% of youths in this specific age group are neither in education nor in employment. One of the key drivers mentioned in different studies of youth unemployment is the gap between skills that young people possess and have access to and those demanded by employers. Furthermore, gender inequality contributes to poor health and employment outcomes for adolescent girls and young women and is driven by early marriage and exclusion from certain sectors and industries. Young urban women have the highest unemployment rates in the country (31%). In addition to economic exclusions, evidence revealed that age and marital status contribute to the rate of induced abortion in Ethiopia, despite also having rate of highest contraceptive utilization and lowest unmet need. Considering that 47% of abortions in Ethiopia are performed outside of health facilities, it is critical to target women in this demographic (younger, unmarried, urban) to ensure that their need for family planning is met. The DHS Data obtained from Bahir Dar city administration health department regarding youth between the age of 15 and 29 suggests that the unmet need for family planning is about 63%. Neither public nor private contraceptive options meet the demands of young people. 1. 1,563 unemployed women and men in Bahir Dar town will have access to quality employability trainings & apprenticeship opportunities in 13 months so that their access to gainful wage- or self-employment improved. 
2. Employment linkages will be created for 250 trained beneficiaries a wage employment with employer organizations 
3. Self-employment support will be provided for 50 beneficiaries For JSE component 1563 unemployed youth (50% female) between the age of 15 and 29 living in Bahir Dar city administration who are currently not neither in education (training) nor in employment. For SRH component 3135 young girls between the age of 15 and 29  who are residents of Bahir Dar city administration and are in need of SRH services
Maternal Health From Community To Government As a result of various successful interventions of government and civil society in maternal health in Ethiopia the maternal mortality rate reduced from 1400 in 1990 to 353 in 2015 (WHO, 2015).  However, the maternal mortality rate in pastoralist areas, remains high. For example in Afar the maternal mortality rate was still very high in 2011 with 717 deaths per 100,000 births (EDHS 2011).  Cultural, social and economic factors at community level make that very few Afar women attend maternal health care services. The health care services that are available are few, ill equipped and understaffed. At the same time the quality of the training of health workers, more specifically midwives, leaves a lot to be desired. Contribute to securing sustainable maternal and reproductive health among the pastoralists in Teeru, Afar Region. 990 pregnant women and 63.000 people
Health Systems Strengthening through PBF In Jimma Zone Phase II In Ethiopia, Cordaid started the phase 1 showcase project of Performance Based Financing (PBF) in the arid and pastoralist Borana Zone in 2015 which ended on the 30th of June 2018. As confirmed by an external project evaluation done in November 2018, the project contributed to an increase in both the utilization and the quality of healthcare services in Borana. With the success, Cordaid mobilized additional internal funding to implement the second phase of the project which was jointly designed by the Borana Zonal Health Department (ZHD), Cordaid and the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) resulting in a scale-up from 4 to 8 Borana woredas, from 9 to 25 health facilities and from a catchment population of 125,918 to a population of 488,556. 
In March 2018, the FMOH and Cordaid organized a PBF workshop in Bishoftu during which results and lessons from the Borana case were shared and discussed. Representatives of the FMOH, ORHB, ZHD, EHIA, and Cordaid participated. Participants expressed the wish to bring PBF to a part of the Oromia region which relies mostly on sedentary farming, to also generate evidence about the impact of PBF in a non-pastoralist context. This resulted in the development of a four-year proposal to the Royal Netherlands Embassy to scale up PBF in the Jimma Zone in Oromia. The Jimma proposal was approved by the Embassy in early April 2019 and started the implementation of its six-month inception phase on the 1st of April 2019. 

The Jimma PBF phase I was started on the 1st of April 2019 with a six-month inception phase and full-blown implementation was started in September 2019 at 13 Districts within respective 65 Health centres and 3 Hospitals. From January 2021, the project covers 100% of the Health Facilities in Jimma: 8 districts, 57 health centers, and 5 Hospitals, at the later stage of the project 536 Health posts have been also included in the project. The Jimma PBF has led to substantial improvement in health service utilization, access to essential quality health services, and the reliability of the data. The overall Jimma PBF project has covered, 21 woredas, 122 health centers, 536 Health posts, 5 Primary Hospitals, 3 General Hospitals, and 118 Community-Based Organizations which ensures a 3,722,559 population served both directly and indirectly. This project is a 3 year project which is a continuation of the 4 year Health System Strengthening project that was being implemented in Jimma. General Objective: 
“Improved availability and accessibility of good quality healthcare at primary and secondary level in the Jimma Zone (Oromia Region, Ethiopia), and a stronger health system at large, which supports the progressive realization of Universal Health Coverage (SDG 3.8) in this geographical area.” A total of 3,735,524 people living in the catchment area of the 130 targeted Health Facilities in the 21 project Woredas will benefit from the project implementation.
Strengthening COVID-19 Response in Afghanistan The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to John Hopkins University data, as of 1 October 2020, there have been 33, 997, 825 confirmed cases and 1,014,588  deaths worldwide.  As the pandemic develops, countries with weaker health systems, limited capacity to deal with major outbreaks, and large populations of already vulnerable communities are at particular risk; this includes Afghanistan.

In Afghanistan, as of 29 September 2020, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) reported that 39,285 people across all 34 provinces have tested positive for COVID-19. Kabul is the epicentre of the outbreak; Herat, Kandahar, and Balkh provinces closely follow (1,458 individuals are confirmed to have died from the virus ). The relatively low level of infection, especially juxtaposed with the high number of Afghans who have returned from Iran and Pakistan in recent months, can be attributed to low community-testing and slow processing of test results – especially for those in rural, remote and insecure areas. Tellingly, while the number of reported positive cases has dropped, the rate of death has risen.  There are currently 11 testing laboratories in the country; the government hopes to eventually have 15 operational.  The graph below presents the breakdown of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Afghanistan Overall objective: Contribute to the protection of Afghan citizens from the spread of COVID-19 and to strengthen the national health systems preparedness and capacity to respond to public health emergencies.
Specific objectives: 
1.	Increase the response capacity of the health system;
2.	Improve infection prevention measures and capacities;
3.	Reduce nutritional risks; and
4.	Strengthen and sustain community efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in alignment with the national COVID-19 Global Response Plan, guidelines and strategic priorities. 8.4 million direct and indirect beneficiaries, made up of 4.3 million male and 4.1 million female beneficiaries, including children. This will include:
•	Establishment of 30 COVID-19 sample collection points
•	Increase oxygen capacity in nine provincial hospitals by establishing oxygen plants
•	Reach 96,378 patients with food baskets and nutrition counselling services
•	Train 31,689 (15,291 women) community members on recognizing COVID-19 symptoms and prevention measures
•	55% of population in targeted programme areas to be reached with COVID-19 prevention messages
•	320 (160 women) provincial and district hospital staff to receive IPC training
•	22 district and community health centre staff trained in Badakhshan on COVID-19 case management through eHealth
Sierra Leone – GIZ- Health Systems Strengthening Despite rising allocations on healthcare and its high
political importance, key health indicators such as maternal and child mortality have not 
improved significantly. The electronic disease surveillance and response system is
introduced nationwide. The many developed plans, strategies, policy guidelines, curricula and databases for health information systems and human resources management do not function appropriately. Thus, the healthcare system is not yet optimally aligned to the health needs of the population (core problem). This project 
therefore aims at providing technical assistance to improve the quality of health services through human resource
development, more efficient and needs-based decentralized management of the health
system and the institutionalization of the reporting and response system for infectious
diseases with epidemic potential. The objective is defined as: The healthcare system
in selected districts in Sierra Leone, including sufficient staffing, is better adapted to the
health needs of the population.
1) The proportion of correctly collected data of the Sierra Leonean health indicators from the national Health Information System (District Health Information System 2, DHIS-2) increased from 0% to 70% in Kambia and Kailahun.
2) Quarterly updated Action Plan Management Matrices (Action Plan Management Matrix, APMM) are present in Kambia and Kailahun. From 0 to 12 Staff of the Directorate for Policy, Planning and Information of the MOHS; staff of the district county and District Health Management Team of two districts: Kambia and Kailahun.  18 Health Centres
Target group is the population of Kambia and Kailahun and, to a lesser extent, the total
population of Sierra Leone as well as the population of the neighboring communities of
Liberia and Guinea. Intermediaries to reach these target groups are female and male health
professionals of the district health management teams (DHMTs) in Kambia and Kailahun.
Further intermediaries are the staff in the health institutions of the two districts and at the
community level, District Councils, community members and staff for agriculture, livestock
breeding and environmental protection at the district level. At the national level, employees of
the Ministry of Health and its directorates, as well as employees of the national authorities for
agriculture, livestock and environmental protection, are to be mentioned as target group.