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Francophone DO Programme The goal of this project is capacity building in eye health personnel in Francophone West Africa to address the lack of trained health personnel. Ultimately, this will increase the accessibility of eye care services in the Francophone West Africa Countries.
Jabalpur Katni District The overall aim of the project is to ensure a better and equal opportunity environment for educational growth of children with visual impairment (CVIs) within mainstream education system. 
Various direct support are given like, training on plus curriculum, medical assessment of both blind and low vision children, skill enhancement camps, sensitising teachers and relatives, exposure visits, promoting extra-curricular activities, etc. Some need based activities like training on adolescent health to VI girls, etc. was also incorporated. 
Advocacy with Government departments and village level bodies ensured monetary and other benefits like braille text books and assistive devices. The project also revived Parent Teacher Association for better monitoring and support for VI children. 
The CVIs thus will enjoy inclusive growth opportunity for their future development.
Jhabua District CES EC JJHS Aim of the project is to provide eye care services to the poor population of the project area
The activities to be implemented are hospital based intervention, providing eye care services through outreach screening camps, door to door counselling, awareness at community level as well as with medical personnel at grass root level and with health functionaries of other organisations on eye health issues, School screening programme by training school teachers on vision screening and developing linkages with Government system for better support for eye care services
There would be an overall uptake of eye care service by the people thus resulting in decrease in the overall incidence rate of blindness due to blinding eye conditions.
Noakhali Dist. Eye Care Project is aimed at enhancing the capacity of selected government district hospitals to provide eye health care services as part of their health service delivery. The project targets district hospitals of the government and enable them to provide secondary level eye health care services as well as utilise these as referral point for eye health and develop a system of reporting on performances up to the national level led by the NEC, DGHS. The trained health and family planning workers and community clinics refer people with eye problem and cataract patients to the district hospitals from the community level; besides, many patients are identified through patient screening programmes (PSP) to take services at the door steps of the rural poor, particularly women. As GoB is taking care of key costs such as the salaries of the surgeon, nurses, the district level health administrator and other officials, as well as the infrastructures, cost sharing for equipment, MSR and maintenance; the project has the opportunity of making eye care services sustainable particularly for the poor people of the localities of the concerned district and also other adjacent districts. It is expected that the district eye care programme will contribute to reduce the prevalence of blindness in our country and ultimately introduce the scope of decentralised planning for budget and implementation of eye health care. Thus, it will help to achieve the goal of Vision 2020.
Moorfields Ghana This project aimed at contributing to the construction fund of the Moorfields-Korle Bu Trust to complete the building of new eye department/training institute at Korle Bu Hospital, Accra, Ghana which is estimated to be in the region of STG2 million. 

The construction of the new eye department will bring immediate advantages to the eye health sector in Ghana.
UNNATI organisation for development education The aim of this project is to develop inclusive tools and techniques in situational analysis and capacity assessment for organisational development, which can be used by people with disabilities, to assist with the development of inclusive development programmes. A resource toolkit of inclusive analytical tools and methods will be created and made available. It is expected that more than 10,000 people with visual impairments and other disabilities will benefit directly from inclusive development programming.
Sri Lanka Low Vision Project The goal of this project is to improve the quality of life of persons with low vision in Sri Lanka by providing comprehensive low vision eye care services​
The Gambia Trachoma Project The goal of the project is to ensure that blinding Trachoma has been eliminated from the list of blindness causing eye diseases in The Gambia by 2013
DID Education Bangladesh Bangladesh inclusive Education: Strengthening systems for the enrolment, retention and support of children with disabilities at primary level of mainstream education in Bangladesh.
Cataract Surgeries India South To contribute towards elimination of preventable blindness from South Asia​​
Jagaran Jan Vikas Mandal trust, Dungarpur The project is focused on strengthening the ophthalmic human resources of the hospital and building convergence with various stakeholders for enhanced service delivery.
QEDJT Zambia implementing partner SSI The aim of this project is to control and eliminate blinding trachoma as a public health problem.
Cote D'Ivoire CDTI Northern Zone This project aims to treat all eligible people annually with ivermectin in the health districts targeted. It hopes to reach at least 80% of therapeutic coverage and 100% of geographical coverage for mass treatment against onchocerciasis in 8 health districts by 2015. It also aims to achieve surveillance activities in CDTI communities and refine the mapping of onchocerciasis
Elimination of Blinding Trachoma in Malawi The goal of this project is to eliminate blinding trachoma in Malawi through the support of the Ministry of Health to develop and roll out an effective Trachoma elimination programme.​
Togo Mectizan Distribution The goal of this project is to support onchocerciasis control and maintain the achievements of OCP / WHO SIZ / Sightsavers, specifically aiming to reduce or maintain the prevalence of onchocerciasis at a rate less than or equal to 5%. ​
Comprehensive Eye care services in Nadia District, This project has ended in December 2012
Upper Nile State Eye care The purpose of this project is to increase eye services coverage by strengthening the health system and building the capacities of the communities to take responsibility over their own eye health. The aim is to develop eye health/care services , establish a secondary eye care facility at Malakal Teaching Hospital, increase access to eye care services and strengthen eye disease control programmes to tackle cataract and trachoma in the short term and childhood blindness, refractive errors and low vision in the medium term. Targets; For 2013, the project envisage that a total of 2,500 people will benefit from TT surgeries while 172,323 persons will benefit from antibiotic treatment in two counties of the state. About 500 cataract sufferers will receive surgery. 
This will result in (outcome):
- Increased access to eye care services
- Reduced blinding trachoma infection
- Restored sight for trichiasis sufferers
- Health system strengthened and Malakal eye unit would offer secondary eye care services
The Right to Health: Breaking down barriers to EH Women and men, with and without disabilities and/or belonging to other marginalised groups have improved access to inclusive eye health in target districts in Bangladesh
QEDJT Nigeria Implementing Partner SSI The aim of this project is to control and eliminate blinding trachoma as a public health problem.
CCB Secretariat This is a group of projects which come under a Regional Programme which Sightsavers implement in partnership with the Caribbean Council for the Blind – Eye Care Caribbean (CCB). 

The overall aim of this programme is to ensure CCB facilitates the coordination of comprehensive and sustainable systems that will achieve Vision 2020 objectives and provide Inclusive Services to persons who are blind or visually impaired.

Project activities include
- Supporting expansion of eye health, rehabilitation and education services in the region
- Providing technical assistance to countries within the region;
- Coordinating regional data collection and reporting on V2020 and Inclusive Services;
- Providing technical support to CCB Members, Partners and V2020/Prevention of Blindness committees;

The Programme intends to:
- Improve coverage, quality and access to services.
- Advocate for universal access to inclusive education by children who are blind or visually impaired.
- Lobby for universal access to counselling and adjustment to blindness services by all persons who are blind and requiring such services.
- Promotion of the rights of persons who are blind or visually impaired to vocational and tertiary level training; gainful employment; unemployment or pension benefits and inclusive recreational activities.
- Improve the institutional capabilities of CCBs members.
- The advancement of social investment practices, as a means of achieving financial sustainability for the Mission, purpose and goal of CCB-Eye Care Caribbean
Govt. IE Prog.-DSS Three education projects have been merged to make one education project titled: ‘ACE’- Access of Children with Disabilities to Education as of 2013. The project goal is to strengthen systems to increase access to education for children with disabilities. 
Specific Objectives are: 
Objective 1: To enhance capacities of Government teacher trainers and programme personnel on Inclusive Education
Objective 2: To demonstrate effective and functional Inclusive Education approach in selected schools
Objective 3: To advocate for the realisation of the Right to Education for disabled children, particularly VI/blind children
Objective 4: To develop and strengthen systems for inclusive education to take the project to scale
Zambia Disability Platform To contribute towards achieving a Zambian society in which disabled persons enjoy full participation in National Development with all their fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed by 2015 
1. To create a unified platform for the disability movement to advocate for the domestication of the UNCRPD.
2. To develop a common advocacy agenda for the disability movement
3. To strengthen institutional capacity of Disability and Blind people’s organisations.
4. To develop the advocacy skills of persons with disabilities by 2013 
Some key activities
• Create a platform for joint advocacy and capacity building for DPOs/BPOs
• Lobby for increased funding to the disability sector.
• develop appropriate strategy to address inadequacies
• strengthen capacity of government funded DPOs in organisational development and programme delivery
• Train persons with disabilities in self advocacy skills
• Engage donors, private, public and social sectors to include disability issues in their policies and programmes.
• Conduct sensitisation activities for parents and guardians on the importance of educating persons with disability
Innovations Evaluation R2 An independent evaluation of the 14 Round 2 innovation projects in order to assess the extent to which each project addressed Sightsavers’ implementation challenges in eye health and disability and to establish which innovations succeeded / didn’t succeed.
West Uttarakhand Comprehensive Eye Care Programme The goal of this project is to reduce the incidence of avoidable blindness and to facilitate rehabilitation services to the blind people of Haldwani block, Nainital district. It will also promote Comprehensive Eye Health services in Haldwani block of Nainital district. This will then contribute towards the elimination of avoidable blindness in this district.
COVID-19 ASCEND Sightsavers - Liberia COVID-19 response work carried out through repurposed ASCEND programme activity.
Give Well SCH and STH GiveWell funded Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH)
IE assessments for children with sensory impairmen Increased access to and participation in inclusive education for children with disability in Mali.
Eye health project in Sindou Improve access to quality eye health for the people of Sindou district in particular and the Cascades region in general.
COVID-19 DID Covid Response Nigeria This task order addresses accessibility of centres where people autonomously go to get tested for COVID-19; isolation and treatment units (excluding intensive care facilities); and any other relevant infrastructure identified during the planning process
Gates Foundation Project Programme Oversight. This cost centre code is now reflected against code 85002.
Advancing Quality Child EC Services - Nampula Prov To improve the accessibility and availability of high-quality and equitable eye care services for 72,000 children, in and out of school in Nampula and Ribaue Districts within Nampula province.
IA PG2 Senegal Inclusive Education project Children with disabilities, including children with visual impairments, are educated alongside their peers within a wider government education system.
ASCEND Sightsavers - Sierra Leone In three years, the Ascend programme aims to transform millions of lives by treating trachoma, river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and intestinal worms. We will work alongside ministries of health, communities and partners including the World Health Organization (WHO) in endemic countries to deliver one of the most significant NTD programmes in history.
Post HFPI EC - PMU The Post Health for Peace Initiative (PHFPI) project is located in the three West African countries of Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea Bissau. It was set up to facilitate the implementation of good quality eye care services and also promote eye health. The main goal of the project is to contribute to the improvement of living standards and reduce poverty through a reduction of the blindness prevalence rate by 50% over 5 years in Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea Bissau. The specific objective is to establish comprehensive good quality eye care services that are accessible and affordable to the vast majority of the population of the 3 countries by the end of 5 years. The project implementation is around three major components linked to capacity building through training, infrastructure building for establishment of comprehensive eye care for service delivery, and partnership building for adequate coordination
Guinea Trachoma Project The goal of this project is to eliminate blinding trachoma in 3 Regions of Guinea (Boke, Faranah and Labe).​
School Eye Health Programme - Uttar Pradesh A project to improve the school eye health of approximately 50,000 children in areas of Kasganj, Uttar Pradesh, India. The project will contribute to the SDG goals of 'good health and well-being', 'quality education' and 'gender equality' and also contribute to the Vision 2020 priority of addressing refractive error which is the biggest cause of visual impairment among children. The project will target school children in the age group of 5 to 15 years, especially in classes 1, 5 and 8, focusing on refractive error in Kasganj.
TT/TS Study - DFID SAFE Multi-centre observational study on burden, phenotype and morbidity of TT and TS
Zamfara State NTD The goal of the project is to reduce disability due to five Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) (Onchocerciasis, Trachoma, Lymphatic Filariasis (LF), Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH)) in Zamfara State by 2016 using integrated and cost effective approaches for mass drug administration (MDA).​
Zambia Coordinated Approach to Eye Health Improving eye health and reducing avoidable blindness for poor people in Zambia. Improved treatment for eye diseases for men and women from trachoma endemic areas.
Tanzania Trachoma (Non-Sightsavers) - CNHF Phase 3 Funding The project goal is to achieve Trachoma Trichiasis elimination in the respective regions through Full Geographic Coverage(FGC) with case finding and managing TT identified cases.
Eye Health Workforce Development The goal of this project is to address the issue of a lack of Eye Health Professional through the support and development of Human Resources to increase eye health capacity
Alliance fights avoidable blindness (AFAB 2) Mali In Mali, a rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (RAAB) survey in people over 50 in the Koulikoro region found untreated cataract to be the leading cause of blindness. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Universal Eye Health Global Action Plan (GAP) 2014-2019 recommends that all member states have national plans and committees to ensure the effective delivery of eye health programmes and promote the integration of eye health into broader health systems. Currently Mali does not have a functioning national committee or an approved national plan. To address the weaknesses identified by the situational analysis the Action Plan will focus on the following areas: cataracts, refractive errors, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and strengthening the health system at national and regional levels.
Ghana Economic Empowerment This project envisions to increase labour force participation rate of women and men with disabilities in Ghana, reinforced through sustainable partnerships between private sector, civil society, people with disability and governments that provides platform for new models and leadership on inclusive employment.
Hazaribag District CES Ichak CBR - MANAV VIKAS The project has come to an end in 30/04/12
JVaranasi Pindra IE Project envisages strengthening the initiatives of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA - Government of India flagship programme for Universalization of Elementary Education) in identifying and providing educational services to children with visual impairment from the project area.
Key project activities to support Inclusive Education includes support to visually impaired children, capacity building of education staff, community orientation and support of education material translating in inclusion of 16 children with vision impairment in mainstream education.
Uganda Inclusive Education Programme The goal of this project is to increase primary school enrolment for children with visual impairments and other disabilities by 25% by 2016.
COVID-19 Senegal - Covid Activities Eye Health COVID-19 response work carried out under IA programme
Nigeria Kano State SCH/STH - GiveWell Reduction in the prevalence and intensity of STH and schistosomiasis over time amongst school age children.
Advocacy Project for UNCRPD (NCPEDP) This project is and advocacy project aiming at bringing about major changes in the way disability is looked at in governance. It aims at getting the implementation of XIth 5-year plan to improve the conditions of disabled people all over country as well as get the census process disabled accommodative. Besides this, this project also strengthened other local agencies to advocate for implementation of UNCRPD
Comprehensive Paediatrics Eye care project (Partner The goal of this project is to raise awareness about eye health, prevent blindness and save the lives of the children suffering from eye diseases in south Karnataka viz., Bangalore-Urban, Bangalore (rural), Hasan, Tumkur, Kolar and Mandya districts​
Super Schools of Five - Ethiopia As part of Super School of Five, children follow a 21-day programme featuring adventures of five superheroes. The characters encourage children to understand the importance of good hygiene habits, particularly washing their face and hands with soap at five key points in the day. As well as educating children, the programme empowers them and their teachers to change behaviour in their communities. They are encouraged to spread the word about the importance of hygiene and teach others in their family to wash their hands and faces properly. So far, about 3,700 teachers across 340 schools have been trained to champion good hygiene behaviour.
Nigeria Katsina State SCH/STH - GiveWell Reduction in the prevalence and intensity of STH and schistosomiasis over time amongst school age children.
QEDJT Malawi Implementing Partner SSI To contribute towards eliminating Blinding Trachoma in Malawi by 2019
Senegal Trachoma control Programme ​The aim of this Trachoma Project being implemented in 5 regions (Louga , Diourbel, Kaolack, Kaffrine and Fatick) and their 27 districts-- is to contribute to the elimination of trachoma in Senegal by 2020, in partnership between Sightsavers and the government through the Ministry of Health (MOH) and all other sectoral ministries.
COUNTRY HEALTH INFORMATION PLATFORM (CHIP) Country Health Information Platform (CHIP) – A nationally managed data product to improve access to longitudinal data through ESPEN Platform integration.
DID consortium partners Disability inclusion is a neglected, under-prioritised issue in international development; a lack of evidence around what works in practice to deliver inclusion contributes to difficulty in building effective programmes. The DFID Disability Inclusive Development (DID) Programme is a £30m programme designed to contribute to the long-term improved well-being and inclusion of people with disabilities in low-and-middle-income countries. DID will carry out a series of small scale interventions around increased access to health care and education, improved livelihoods and reduced stigma and discrimination, using new development approaches such as adaptive management and community-based consultation to deliver better quality of life for persons with disabilities. The programme will create a solid evidence base around what delivers positive results for persons with disabilities to scale up, as well as ensure this data and evidence is disseminated and informs the global community and governments. DID will run for six years and complement DFID’s current disability inclusion programming including UK Aid Connect.
Ampara District Comprehensive Eyecare Programme To provide services on eye health needs of people affected by tsunami closer to their communities through the development of a district focus sustainable Eye Health programme in selected divisional secretary areas of Ampara District. The project will support the increase of eye health facilities, strengthening school screening and cataract programmes.
Eye health in Muchinga and Eastern Province ​To contribute to sustainable provision and increased demand for eye care services at the district level for people in four districts of Zambia
KCMC Ophth Trg - Cataract Surgeons/AeHP The goal of this project is to significantly improve the eye care services in Tanzania through the development of eye health personnel to provide quality eye care services in hospitals and outreach services. This will be contributing to the National vision 2020 objective on strengthening human resources at all levels, necessary for delivering basic eye care services within Tanzania.
Mectizan - Liberia The goal of this project is to control and eliminate Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis through mass distribution of treatments. This will contribute towards ensuring the Northwest becomes and endemic free region and these Neglected Tropical Diseases are eliminated as a public health concern in Liberia.
Nigeria Trachoma - Unrestricted To accelerate goals in trachoma interventions across Africa towards the elimination of Trachoma as a public health problem in Nigeria through the delivery of the SAFE strategy.
Malawi School of Optometry To provide a sustainable solution to the problem of avoidable blindness in Southern Africa by addressing the significant barrier of local human resources through the training of optometric personnel thereby contributing to the elimination of avoidable blindness caused by uncorrected refractive errors and impaired vision in Southern Africa by the year 2020.