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Preventing plastics from reaching the ocean by creating and supporting job and business creation for unemployed youth in Douala, Cameroon 164 unemployed and vulnerable youth in the city of Douala Tonnage of plastic waste collected for recycling.

Tonnage of plastic remaining after sorting to be used for recycled products.

Square metres of products sold.

Numbers of people trained in waste collection, management and business (disaggregated by age, sex, and disability).

Number of people working (receiving remuneration) in the waste recyling industry.

Douala City Council is supportive of the community recycling programme.

Number and percentage of markets in Village participating in the recycling scheme.

Number and percentage of appropriate businesses in Village participating in the recycling scheme (supermarkets and wholesalers with high plastic waste).
Preventing plastics from reaching the ocean by creating and supporting job and business creation for unemployed youth in Douala, Cameroon Tonnage of plastic waste collected for recycling. Tonnage of plastic remaining after sorting to be used for recycled products. Square metres of products sold. Numbers of people trained in waste collection, management and business (disaggregated by age, sex, and disability). Number of people working (receiving remuneration) in the waste recyling industry. Douala City Council is supportive of the community recycling programme. Number and percentage of markets in Village participating in the recycling scheme. Number and percentage of appropriate businesses in Village participating in the recycling scheme (supermarkets and wholesalers with high plastic waste). 164 unemployed and vulnerable youth in the city of Douala
Stop the Spread of COVID-19, Uganda The Improvement of maternal and child health indicators through the integration of the COVID-19 interventions in the Terego district. To reduce the incidence of malaria, diarrhoea and waterborne illnesses through improved access to MNCH services at the community level Improved awareness on COVID-19 infection, prevention, control and Home Based Care by the communities.
Resilience Building and Creation of Economic Opportunities (RESULT) project in South Omo, Ethiopia This project is to strengthen the health, nutrition and WASH interventions and build a healthy and productive community that contributes towards positive economic development and resilience building in South Omo. The European Commission is the primary donor, and the total project budget for all interventions by all consortium members is EUR 4,700,000.00. The total budget for Amref Health Africa's intervention is EUR 803,596.26, £10,000 of which is from the UK Trust Mercury Phoenix. Strengthened access and quality of nutrition service for children and Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW); Improved access to promotive, preventive and curative primary health care services; Increased access to safe drinking water for households and improved sanitation and hygiene practices. 53,258 members of the local population will directly benefit (with 27,161 female and 26,097 male project participants). 108,110 people will indirectly benefit.
SPORT FOR HEALTH: EMPOWERING GIRLS THROUGH SPORT Through recreational sport activities, Amref Health Africa’s ‘Sport for Health’ project aims to reach 3,000 adolescent girls living in Dagoretti and Mukuru Informal Settlements with sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and life skills education. This will equip the girls with the knowledge they need to improve their health, understand their rights, access education and training opportunities and, ultimately, make decisions about their own health and futures. Community dialogues will also target 4000 community members to confront social norms that expose girls to sexual exploitation, violence and teen pregnancy. 300 adolescent mothers will be facilitated with psycho-social support and career opportunities. Increased community awareness on SRHR and child protection issues; increased access to personal, employment and educational opportunities for adolescent mothers; improved youth-friendly SRH services 7240 people will directly benefit: 3000 adolescent girls aged 10-19 (including 300 adolescent mothers), 240 front-line workers, and 4000 community members
Piwa Maleng (Our Clean Water) This project aims to repair and rehabilitate nonfunctioning
boreholes and improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene for approximately 10,800 people. All 32 non-functional boreholes in Lamogi sub-county will be repaired, and the project will train mechanics to maintain and repair them in future  and establish Water User Committees who will oversee and monitor the use and maintenance of the boreholes. We will also drill 4 new boreholes in areas where there is currently no access to a borehole. To support communities to use the boreholes safely, we will conduct community dialogue sessions and house to house awareness raising on healthy hygiene and sanitation
practices. The project will indirectly reach 10,800 people through rehabilitated/newly drilled boreholes, including 180 village health team members, 30 environmental health assistants, 36 water user committees and 22 hand pump mechanics
Stand Up For Adolescents: a project to reduce teenage pregnancies and eliminate child marriages in Malawi This project is to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) awareness in the community, improves SRH services (and access to), and SRH policy influence in the districts of Mangochi and Machinga, Malawi. The project is managed by Amref Netherlands (Amref Flying Doctors) – the UK’s role is to fill the funding gap. Total budget is EUR1,195,000; the primary donor in the Netherlands has given EUR845,000, with £200,000 from the Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust. The full project is from April 2017 - Dec 2021; the UK co-funding is from Jan 2019 - Dec 2021. • Boys and girls to be utilizing SRH services and claiming their rights (community level) • Community members to have changed attitudes on SRHR as awareness of SRHR is improved (community level) • Community members to have acted to prevent CM and teenage pregnancies (community level) • Boys and girls to be able to access improved SRH services (facility level) • To influence the implementation of policy and practice on SRHR (district level) Boys and girls aged 10-24 from the Yao community
Stop the Spread COVID-19, Kenya This project is part of Amref's co-ordinated response to Stop the Spread and Flatten the Curve in 8 priority countries across Africa. This project aims to train community health workers (CHWs) and healthcare professionals (HCPs) using Amref's mobile digital platforms (LEAP and JIBU) on a MoH approved curriculum for COVID-19. This covers key relevant topics such as home-based care and  monitoring tools (for CHWs) and infection, prevention, control measures and rapid response for COVID-19 (for HCPs).

The project also aims to support mental health initiatives including a mental health training manual and key messages. The project will train 2,000 HCPs and 4,500 CHWs
Kibera Reach 90 Project This project will support 4,000 people living in Kibera with HIV/AIDS by providing homer-testing kits, responding to the impact of COVID-19, and ultimately strengthening community access to HIV/AIDS treatment and services.
Resilient Economy and Livelihood (REAL) Project Amref’s project in Wolaita Zone, SNNP Region, Ethiopia is to improve access to and use of integrated health services for communities who are vulnerable to drought, communicable diseases and malnutrition. The project’s activities focus on improving sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR), by improving quality of services and strengthening demand by young people, women and families. The full project is delivered by Amref Ethiopia and primarily funded by the European Commission (from 2017-2022); the Waterloo Foundation grant fulfils the co-funding need (Jan-Dec 2019), with technical support by Amref UK. This funding will support the project activities of: • Training for health workers at 12 health centres on provision of LARCs to 2,500 women under 49, including implant and Intrauterine Contraceptive Device (IUCD/the ‘coil’) • Support for outreach services at lower level health posts, through trained health workers to serve 1,300 LARCs users in communities • Training for health workers in Basic Emergency Obstetric & New born care (BEmONC) to serve 354 women of reproductive age, essential to support ongoing reproductive health • Training for 18 health workers on provision of ‘youth-friendly’ (age-appropriate and sensitive) SRHR services, to serve for 2,303 young people at health facilities • Support for the establishment and strengthening of youth-friendly services in six health centres; the project will refurbish, design and maintain youth-friendly spaces • Material support for eight maternity waiting rooms to promote SRHR services • Support with establishing a revolving fund for medical equipment, consumable supplies (including LARCs) and medicines to health facilities. For example, new supplies of implants will prevent patients from having to be referred to other, distant health facilities • Strengthening laboratory and diagnostic capacity for health facilities, including HIV testing and diagnosis of STIs • Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) for 500 school children in six schools • Awareness raising campaign on sexual and reproductive health in targeted communities • Support for HIV/AIDS clubs in schools, through materials and mentorship for young leaders. In addition to the activities above, the budget also includes funding towards M&E. Project outcomes are: 50% of households (12,500) are informed and positive about modern family planning options; 6,000 women of reproductive age utilise long acting family planning by the end of the project; 2,303 adolescents receive improved youth-friendly SRHR services by the end of the project; increase contraceptive prevalence in 25,000 households, from 68% to 80%.
Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Ending Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Conference The Amref Health Africa CoE on ending FGC was created in 2018 with the aim of providing strategic leadership on, and the coordination of, all work on this issue. Its 3-pillared structure was created curing the first CoE conference in Nairobi in 2018. This funding is to support a second conference in 2019 to discuss the way forward for the CoE, offering a unique opportunity to develop regional common knowledge of programmatic evidence and approaches to ending FGC by inviting programme managers from all Amref Health Africa offices across Sub-Saharan Africa, in conversation with governmental figures. The aim of this conference is to unite, inspire, strategize and plan for achieving Amref’s vision to end FGC by 2030. The total budget is 1,499,224EUR, with People's postcode Lottery funding £430,000 of this. - Approach: what is common in all FGM/C programmes? - Comparative advantage: what is our added value in addressing FGM/C in a specific community/country? How do we fit in a crowded landscape of actors working on this? - Analyses: how do we analyse our context effectively before designing programmes? - Learning: how do we become a leading organization on this issue? - Organization: what organisational structures are needed in order to achieve this goal?
Kasasiro Zaabu (Waste Is Gold) Kasasiro Zaabu will improve the livelihoods of women and young people living in Kawempe, Kampala, by scaling up six early-stage plastic bottle recycling businesses. Through the project, businesses will be supported to scale up their operations through access to dedicated business loans as well as business training and mentoring. In turn, to support effective waste management, community members will be trained as waste recovery agents and educated on waste management and recycling, contributing directly to the work of the businesses through regular community-led clean-up activities. To improve the livelihoods of women and youth and tackle poor waste management practices in the Kawempe Division of Kampala district. The project will indirectly benefit 67,140 members of the community, including directly benefiting 175 business group members, 90 waste recovery agents and 60 village health team members.
The Medical Laboratory Practices and Management Scholarship Course The Medical Laboratory Practices and Management (MLP&M) course aims to contribute to improved health through competency-based training of medical laboratory supervisors through distance and two-week residential training over 5 months. The funding covers four students through partial bursaries. By the end of the course, graduates should be able to: 1. Discuss principles of quality management systems 2. Demonstrate knowledge and skills in effective laboratory documentation and personnel management 3. Employ knowledge and skills in the management of laboratory resources 4. Demonstrate quality measures employed in the diagnostic cycle 5. Organize the laboratory to enhance safety and productivity 6. Develop systems for continuous quality improvement 7. Demonstrate competency in the evaluation of quality management system and customer satisfaction 8. Employ laboratory data in problem solving and decision making The course is organised to run in Three Phases. Phase One and Phase Three of the training are conducted through distance learning at the participants’ work stations, and Phase Two (residential training) is conducted at the Amref Health Africa’s Central Laboratory facilities in Nairobi: - Phase One: a two-month pre-training period on assessment of the laboratory services in their own institutions; June 3 to July 26, 2019 - Phase two: a two-week residential training period to equip the participants with appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes to undertake and apply quality management systems in their laboratory procedures, and to address diagnostic errors in their places of work for improved health care services; August 12 - 23, 2019 - Phase Three: a three-month work-based training conducted at the place of work to enable participants to theory into practice’ implement Action Plans and submit a report; September 2, to November 22, 2019 Accepts laboratory staff with diploma level training or above with at least two years practical experience people from all over Africa. Some are self-funded, some employer funded, and some are funded (or partially funded) through charities like Amref.
Empowering Women with Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania From May 2019 – August 2022, Amref UK is running a project to empower women through the treatment of obstetric fistula. This will be through a partnership between Amref Health Africa UK, Amref Health Africa Tanzania, Magu Poverty Focus on Older People Rehabilitation Centre (MAPERECE) and Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) for women in rural and urban Tanzania. This will lead to improved access to high quality fistula treatment. The psychosocial support will facilitate the social reintegration of women in the community after fistula repair surgery. The skills training and livelihood opportunities provided will enable social and economic empowerment long-term. Support 180 women to receive quality obstetric fistula repair services at Bugando Medical Centre in Mwanza and CCBRT in Dar es Salaam; Provide psychosocial support for 150 women and their families; Provide entrepreneurship training and livelihood opportunities for 180 women after fistula repair surgery to promote their social reintegration. This project will enable 180 women and girls with fistula to receive free fistula repair treatment, psychosocial support and livelihoods training and opportunities for social reintegration. 900 family members (on average five members per household) will also receive information and psychosocial support through home visits.
Diploma in Community Health through eLearning The Diploma in Community Health (DCH) programme is the flagship training programme in Amref Health Africa, launched in 1987 in conjunction with McMaster University in Canada. The course is currently accredited to Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. The programme has evolved from face-to-face training into eLearning mode and improves accessibility and cost-effectiveness of health care services by reaching out to underserved communities with high impact primary health care programmes. Wolfson College, the University of Oxford, provides an annual sponsorship for either one full student bursary or two partial student bursaries Middle-level health care workers competent in English with health-related certificates or diplomas, computer skills and one-year health-related work experience (who provide over 80% of health services in developing countries). Since inception Amref Health Africa has trained over 650 health workers from 35 African countries.
Stop the Spread COVID-19 in Amhara, Ethiopia This project is part of Amref's co-ordinated response to Stop the Spread and Flatten the Curve in 8 priority countries across Africa. This project aims to train 8,000 health extension workers (HEWs) in the Amhara region through Amref's mobile digital training platform LEAP. The HEWs will be trained using a COVID-19 curriculum developed with the MoH focussing on key topics including community-based tracing, prevention and management of COVID-19, and measures to contain the spread. This project will be directly targeting 8,000 HEWs to gain knowledge that will indirectly benefit households in the Amhara region
Preventing Neonatal Sepsis and Cord Infections with Chlorhexidine (CHX) This one-year £150,000 GSK funded project from March 2019 – Feb 2020 is to contribute to the Kenyan Ministry of Health’s mission to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by deploying multi-pronged advocacy activities for the scale-up of CHX usage across Kenya. This includes identification of the barriers of using CHX through operational research. Advocacy activities will be implemented through working groups and round tables at national level, as well as through existing Amref projects. Complete cross-sectional qualitative study to identify the barriers to the use and scale up of CHX gel; Use research to identify activities that will increase knowledge, purpose, effectiveness, correct formulation, application, access and uptake; Advocate implementation of National Guidelines for CHX cord-care by the Ministry of Health by February 2020
PROVIDE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT TO OUR COVID-19 RESPONSE IN UGANDA Procure and distribute Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and other medical supplies to 500 frontline health workers and 1,000 community health workers.
Saving Mothers With or At-Risk of Developing Obstetric Fistula in Northern Uganda This two-and-a-half-year (2019 – 2022) project in the West Nile region of Northern Uganda aims to relieve human suffering by providing 500 women with life changing restorative surgery for obstetric fistula. The project includes screening of women, followed by surgeries and thorough postoperative care, as well as support to reintegrate back into their community and opportunities to develop their own livelihoods. In addition, the project will include key elements of community awareness raising around the causes and effects of obstetric fistula, as well as how it can be prevented and treated. Amref will work primarily with Arua regional hospital and Nebbi district hospital as well as selected community health facilities. Regional and national-level specialists will be brought in to conduct the surgeries. By focussing on the West Nile region of Northern Uganda, this project presents an opportunity to reach out to the South Sudanese and Congolese refugee population and provide them with the same comprehensive package of care. It will also build upon existing relationships with local government, health facilities and communities built up through previous interventions in the region. To improve the health and socio-economic status of women who have suffered from obstetric fistula. 500 women
Stop the Spread of COVID-19, Uganda To support the MOH to Stop the Spread of COVID-19 in Uganda, Amref has designed an intervention that leverages its existing institutional partnerships and infrastructure in Uganda to train 15,000 VHTs and 500 FHWs. This will support VHTs and FHWs to reduce community transmissions of COVID-19 in 20 districts across the Acholi and West Nile regions. 1. Train 1,000 VHTs on COVID-19 prevention and Home-based Care (HBC) management within communities at the sub-county level.
2.	Train 500 frontline health workers (including laboratory staff) on COVID-19 prevention and case management, including detection, timely reporting, rapid testing, and management of COVID cases.
3.	Procure and distribute PPE and medical supplies to 500 FHWs and 1,000 CHWs and assorted disinfectants and hand washing equipment for 100 health facilities.
4.	Deploy digital training to 14,000 VHTs.
5.	Provide a 3-month stipend to 1,000 VHTs involved in the emergency response.
GSK 20% Reinvestment Initiative (Phase II) This project is to increase the numbers of mid-level health workers and community health workers in target 20% reinvestment countries through the scale up of pre-service and in-service training and through empowerment of communities. This is to improve the health of people living in the world’s poorest countries by ensuring access to health workers at the community level in Angola, Burundi, Ethipoia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is committed to reinvest 20% of profits made in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) back into projects that strengthen the healthcare infrastructure in those countries, partnering with three leading NGOs to deliver the reinvestments: Amref Health Africa in East and Southern Africa, CARE International UK in Asia Pacific and Save the Children in West Africa. The shared objective of the investments will be to improve health outcomes by supporting frontline health workers who operate in these countries. Amref is working in 13 countries in a threefold approach: •Build local capability to enable improved delivery of healthcare services, primarily by ensuring access to trained health workers at the community level; •Educate communities to recognise diseases; •Refer to health services and work with governments at a policy level to work towards greater investment, and improvement, in healthcare. To date, through the wider partnership, we have trained more than 10,000 health workers across 17 African countries, and the RI programme has indirectly reached more than 4 million people.
Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Non-Communicable Diseases in Namibia and Botswana In Namibia, the project aims to contribute to the capacity of the Namibian government to manage non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and the reduction of maternal, neonatal and NCD-related morbidity and mortality rates through improved prevention, diagnosis and management of diabetes, hypertension and asthma and provision of maternal care in Namibia. In Botswana, the project aims to facilitate the strengthening of the Botswanan government efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage and the implementation of the National Primary Care Guidelines through contributing to the reduction of NCD morbidity and mortality through improved prevention, diagnosis and management of diabetes, hypertension and asthma at primary health care level. Namibia: 1) Improved capacity of health care workers and Community Health Workers (CHWs) to deliver quality maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and NCDS management; 2) Capacity building of the Ministry of Health in system strengthening in the management of NCDs; 3) Improved health and well-being of community members. Botswana: 1) Improved quality of health care services for the management of NCDs at primary health care level; 2) Increased public awareness on healthy lifestyles and the impact of NCDs; 3) Increased government coordination, planning and investment for NCDs. Healthcare Workers; CHWs; M&E officers