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Zambia Inclusive Education Programme-ZIEP The overall objective of this project is to contribute to Zambia's advancement towards realisation of the universal Primary Education Millennium Development Goal by 2015 by strengthening the capacities for Inclusive education in Zambia.​
Senegal Trachoma Koalack, Kaffrine & Fatick Region This project has the same objectives than Trachoma Project 56004 but it acts in different regions and complements the Kaffrine region.
Senegal Louga Eye Care Louga eye care was Sightsavers entry point in Senegal 5 years ago. This project specially focused on the improvement of access to eye care services in this region. In five years significant achievements have been accomplished. It almost has enabled the region to reach the TTC rate at 2000 per million recommended by WHO in order to impact on the backlog. It has also facilitated the integration of eye unit into the health system in Louga region and the ownership of the project by the community.
LRBT Ophthalmic Technician training The general aim of this support is to develop a sustainable eye health work force to deliver the national program for prevention & control of blindness in Pakistan through Training of 11 ophthalmic technicians.
DFID SAFE Nigeria Kano SSI IP DFID funded trachoma control/elimination programme.
Improving refractive error services in Senegal Improving refractive error services in Senegal
Nigeria Co Trachoma - AUD Accelerate To accelerate goals in trachoma interventions in selected countries in Africa and contribute towards the global elimination of trachoma by delivering WHO endorsed SAFE strategies.
Malawi Union of the Blind The programme is aimed at strengthening organisational capacity of Malawi Union of the Blind focussing on structures at different levels and their ability to advocate for specific issues affecting visually impaired people. 

Objectives of the programme are:
Ø To strengthen MUB organizational capacity to effectively and efficiently implement its programmes.
Ø To increase the participation of blind persons in decentralized public decision-making service provision processes
Ø To enhance the participation of MUB in national and international advocacy activities

Key activities include:
Ø Conduct leadership training
Ø Support MUB members to attend international forums
Ø Conduct a business skills development training for women
Ø Conduct World Sight Day commemorations

The programme is expected to:
Ø Facilitate creation of space and voice for BPOs to engage in national development processes such as the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy and other relevant sectoral processes.
Ø Strengthen organizational capacity of BPOs and empowerment of their membership, e.g. strengthening of MUB branches.
Uganda Coordinated Approach to Eye Health Improving Eye Health and Reducing Avoidable Blindness in Uganda
EC CCB delivering V2020 in the Caribbean The goal of this project is to reduce the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment among rural and poor populations and strengthen coordination and collaboration at all levels in the Caribbean.​
SCB Bihar Rural Eye Health in Gaya and Samastipur To reduce the prevalence of blindness in the 2 districts to less than 0.3%
Benin Mectizan 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%.​
National Low Vision Support The goal of this programme is to improve the quality of life of visually impaired people by strengthening low vision care in Pakistan​
Institutional Capacity Devt for Disability Studies The goal of this project is to produce community-based rehabilitation personnel who are able to work for the promotion of the rights and inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in society​
Raipur District Social Inclusion The goal of this project is to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities in Baloda Bazar district of Chhattisgarh state.
Universal Eye care and Comprehensive Eye Care The goal of this project is to develop a sustainable service delivery model by providing sub-speciality services through Vision Centres in linkages with base hospital​
Inclusion Works - Consortium Partners To seek to remove barriers and empower persons with disabilities into formal employment in Uganda, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Kenya
Sightsavers Support to UFAR and Oncho Programme ​The goal of this project is to contribute towards the elimination of Onchocerciasis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Senegal eye health strengthening project The purpose of the project is to improve eye health in the areas regions of Kaolack, Kaffrine, Fatick, Louga, Diourbel, Zigunchor, Sedhiou, Kedougou.​
IA PG2 Cameroon Inclusive Education project To ensure children with disabilities, including children with visual impairments, are educated alongside their peers.
Nigeria Trachoma AUD - Accelerate To accelerate goals in trachoma interventions in selected countries in Africa and contribute towards the global elimination of trachoma by delivering WHO endorsed SAFE strategies.
Copperbelt CES - Ronald Ross Eye Care The overall objective is to provide Zambians in the Copperbelt province with equity of access to cost effective quality eye care and social inclusion services as close to the family as possible by the year 2011

The purpose of the project is to provide eye health promotion, preventive, treatment, surgical, education and rehabilitation services so as to reduce the prevalence of avoidable blindness and improve the quality of life for the visually impaired and irreversibly blind persons on the Copperbelt Province of Zambia.

The Specific objectives are:
Ø Carry out research on eye care, CBR and Inclusive Education
Ø Support Human Resources Development
Ø Provide Equipment and upgrade infrastructure for delivery of eye care, CBR and IE
Ø Provide eye disease control, CBR and IE Services
Ø Strengthen capacities for programme coordination and management

Specific activities:
ü Conduct Research
ü Human Resource Development – Eye Care, CBR & IE
ü Equipment and Infrastructure Development
ü Service Delivery – Eye Care, CBR & IE
ü Programme Coordination and Management
Dissect Ghana The overarching project goal is to advance progress towards onchocerciasis elimination by developing novel, integrated and scalable onchocerciasis entomological data collection tools.
Comprehensive Paediatrics Eye Care Project-Shimoga The purpose of this project is to prevent blindness, restore sight of children in Central and coastal Karnataka, viz., Shimoga, Uttar Kannada, Haveri, Chikmagalur, Udipi and Davengere districts. 
The specific objectives of the project are, 
1. To provide comprehensive paediatric eye services in the project area to identify and treat visually impaired children.
2. To raise awareness on childhood blindness and to promote community ownership and wider impact of the initiatives. 
3. To network with other local NGOs and eye services providers in the project districts.
ASCEND - non-Sightsavers Niger Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ASCEND - Lot 2) is a high profile, DFID-funded, multi-partner programme, which will make a significant contribution to the control and eliminatuion of the 5 PC NTDs, health systems strengthening, and cross-sector collaboration (particularly WASH and education) across 13 countries in Western and Central Africa. ASCEND - Lot 2 is a single integrated programme across NTDs and the health system, with the following minimum results across the region: 1) provide surgeries to prevent 52,000 cases of blindness due to trachoma 2) 450 million MDA treatments and 3) reduction of morbidity and disability in 26,000 people with lymphatic filariasis.
Koraput District Education Project - SOVA The goal of the project is ensure that Visually Impaired students in the District of Koraput receive quality education at their local schools
Guyana V2020National Plans & service Delivery 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
Sunderban EH Strengthening Programme The goal of the project is to contribute to eradication of avoidable blindness in the Sunderban Region of West Bengal comprising of 19 districts from North 24 Parganas & South 24 Parganas Districts. 
Objectives:
1. To improve accessibility of eye health services in Sunderban area of West Bengal by 2016.
2. To enhance institutional capacity of health infrastructure at the district level of South 24 Parganas & North 24 Parganas.
Key Activities include provision of primary eye care services, provision of secondary eye care services, Capacity building of human resources in the government systems & NGO Hospitals, Support NGO Hospitals for secondary eye health service delivery and support for development of government systems for eye health service delivery
Advocacy Project at Panchayat Level for Eyes, NAB Advocacy Project at Panchayat Level for Eyes, NAB
National Urban Eye Care Programme Improved eye health for urban poor and other Vulnerable Groups through improved health services and community level behaviour change
Mali Trachoma Project The goal of this project is to contribute to the elimination of blinding trachoma in the region of Koulikoro. Specific objectives: Development of human resources who are able to conduct trachoma surveillance at the level of the region; Setting up of a functional surveillance system at the region level in the framework of trachoma elimination; Capitalization and scaling up of the project by PNL in other regions.
Samastipur District Eye Care Project- Ramakrishna This project is now part of the Bihar Eye Health System Strengthening Project (63110)
Integration of PEC in PHC The goal of this project is to provide primary eye care services integrated with primary health care in 10 primary health centres and advocate with government for its replication at wider scale​
Maono Singida - School Eye Health To contribute to the sustainable provision of school eye health in the Singida region in Tanzania
Sierra Leone Mectizan Distribution The goal of this project is to control/eliminate NTDs particularly onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis by 2017​
Coordinated Approach to Eye Health (CATCH) - Nigeria The goal of the project is to improve the quality of life and the socio-economic development of the people of Kebbi and Sokoto State by reduction of avoidable blindness
Inclusion Works - Global Projects To seek to remove barriers and empower persons with disabilities into formal employment in Uganda, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Kenya
Chad Trachoma - Unrestricted To accelerate goals in trachoma interventions across Africa towards the elimination of Trachoma as a public health problem in Chad through the delivery of the SAFE strategy.
Eye Health - Northwest Women, men, girls and boys have improved access to eye health in Liberia
Oncho LF Benue 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 Benue State using integrated and cost effective approaches for mass drug administration (MDA).​
B. P. Eye Foundation (CHEERS) There are currently 33,404 Early Childhood Development centres (ECDCs) in Nepal, open to children between 3-5 years of age, which aim to increase enrolment and retention of children in primary schools. This pilot project will provide training to visually impaired children in daily living skills and pre-Braille activities to encourage ECDCs to enrol them, something which is currently not happening. The Department for Education in Nepal is keen to take this approach, if successful, to scale as a part of an Education for All Children with Visual Impairment (EFAVI) campaign to meet targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Zambia Tusambilile Chapamo project Developing a Zambian model of low cost inclusive education that spans early childhood to secondary and vocational education.
Nigeria Advocacy The project is to support the implementation of the NCO Long Term Advocacy Plan.
Chief GTL Sightsavers programme development function is dedicated to programmatic operations and project oversight and providing technical expertise in project design
Lymphatic Filariasis Operational Research in Kano Neglected tropical disease research
Mectizan - Moyenne MOH The goal of this project is to reduce morbidity due to onchocerciasis in Boke, Mamou and Labe Regions so it is no longer of public health significance and eliminates transmission foci where possible by 2016.​
Pakistan School Screening Project Pakistan school screening project running  01/09/2019 - 31/12/2022
Côte D'Ivoire OV - DISSECT The overarching project goal is to advance progress towards onchocerciasis elimination by developing novel, integrated and scalable onchocerciasis entomological data collection tools.
Vision 2020 National Plans/Service Delivery/Research 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
Mozambique Global Oncho Elimination The purpose of this research is to check the prevalence of onchocerciasis in Mozambique. Three provinces have been selected for this research - Zambezia, Tete and Niassa.
COVID-19 Strengthening Pakistan’s response to diabetic reti COVID-19 response work carried out under project in Pakistan
A Better World Liberia Eye Health Project Eye Health: Improved and more equitable access (provision & uptake) of quality eye health services (that are gender and disability inclusive).
ASCEND EG LSTM - Niger Make a significant contribution to the control and elimination of the 5 PC NTDs, health systems strengthening, and cross-sector collaboration (particularly WASH and education) across 13 countries in Western and Central Africa.
Kanpur Rural Urban Dist. CES The project goal is to reduce avoidable blindness in Kanpur (Urban) and Ramabai Nagar districts. The purpose of the project is to provide affordable and accessible comprehensive & quality eye care services in the underserved & inaccessible areas.

The key activities of the project are community awareness & screening camps, capacity building for Comprehensive eye care services, and support for developing the overall health systems. 

The end of the project is expected to create a better system of eye health in the project area and create community level systems creating better access to eye health and comprehensive eye care systems.
Low Vision Programme - Jharkhand The programme aims to ensure that people with low vision have improved functional vision, contributing to their quality of life
IA Partner Capacity Building activities The Project strengthens partner capacity to foster greater space for collective participation in education and political participation.
Taraba State SCH/STH The goal of the project is to progressively address SCH/STH morbidity via a reduction of prevalence and intensity of both diseases by achieving <1% of heavy to moderate intensity of STH infections and <5% of heavy intensity SCH infections over time at sentinel/spot-check sites
Western Area Eye Care The project aims to provide comprehensive eye health services through integration of eye health within government health systems resulting in strengthened national health systems through the following activities - Outpatient services, operations (cataract), Optical and low vision services, school screening and outreach services and human resource development. The project provides health education and sensitization programmes to help raise awareness about eye care in the Western Area
The change it aims to bring is eye care fully integrated into primary health care and creating accessible, available, quality and equitable eye care services to all especially women, children and the elderly.
National Rural Eye Health Programme Improved Eye Health for Rural Poor and Other Vulnerable Groups through improved health Services (systems)
DID IEH Nigeria Ensuring that women and men with disabilities in Kogi State, Nigeria, have an improved quality and equity in access to eye care services using an inclusive health approach.
NFOWD The overall objective is to ensure the equal participation of persons with disabilities and their organisations in socio-economic activities and community life and contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in Bangladesh. Its three specific objectives are as follows: Specific objective 1: To strengthen the capacities and voice of DPOs/BPOs and increase their linkages and networking with state and non-state actors; Specific objective 2: To promote the full participation of persons with disabilities in socio-economic activities and improve their access to services; and Specific objective 3: To support local authorities and other government departments to meet their obligations for inclusive development as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). These will assist to move towards disability inclusive development. Baseline survey, process documentation, KAP survey, participatory monitoring, community-rooted strategy and operation plan and action research will build evidence. Sustainability will be partly ensured by community resource pool. One component of the project aims to develop standard tools, guidelines, manuals, IEC materials and deliver training to support and explore possible areas of collaboration with academic institutes. The project has a component to support exploring VI & disability accessible ICT. Part of the project implemented by ABC and BVIPS is funded by the EC.
Prestudy Early Childhood Development and Education The pre-study was designed to enable us to view the issues and challenges from the perspective of parents and DPOS regarding children with disabilities and their access to early childhood education. It was to shape the design and focus of the project and was designed to enable the project team to refine the project goal for the future proposed project. The results of the study would provide the basis on which to develop a full project proposal to be funded by ForumSyd.
Liberia Urban LF Transmission Assessment 172D This project will conduct an assessment of the level of W. bancrofti transmission focused on the detection of the infective stage (L3) in mosquitos as well as an immunological monitoring approach of confirmatory mapping. Finally a combination approach which will utilise the results from both methods. The study will form a comprehensive evidence base for the MoH treatment decision in Monrovia as well as inform development of a standardised and recommended protocol for taking similar decisions within urban conurbations of the West African region where there are expanding urban populations and ongoing in-migration from rural areas.
Dhaka Urban The overall aim of Dhaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project (DUCECP) is to contribute to the elimination of avoidable blindness in the city of Dhaka in Bangladesh by the year 2020.​
Assistive technology - Vision Aid The project aims to create an atmosphere whereby the Visually Impaired (VI) are provided with training for personal development, career enhancement, bring in a facilitative environment and to train teachers of the VI children so that they are able to provide this training to their students in schools. 

The programme focuses on providing computer skill training to the VIs from Vizag and the neighbouring sub districts. It also supports colleges for setting up satellite training centres where VIs students are enrolled through which VI students are trained in computers. Besides, it trains the teachers and the students pursuing Bachelors of Education (B. Ed) with an aim that these individuals will further use the learn skills while teaching VI students. Also a resource centre has been established under this project which has few computers that can be utilised by the students for practise and also has various devices for persons with blindness and Low Vision. This acts as a centre for creating awareness among the general public and also among those interested in working for people with VI.
Research Sightsavers’ research function focuses on funding research projects across all themes and technical expertise to research and evidence generation
HREH Needs Assessment Nigeria/Mozambique The overall goal of the project to strengthen the capacity of high-volume centres for training in ophthalmology residency, to improve access to eye health services to the people of Nigeria. The project will also develop a plan for the accreditation of two training institutions in Nigeria.
Inclusive Development Empowering persons with disabilities to become persons with different abilities through inclusive development in district Jhelum
COVID-19 ASCEND Sightsavers - Benin COVID-19 response work carried out through repurposed ASCEND programme activity.