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ASCEND SCI Central 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. This project code is for central fees and expenses regarding SCI.
EC HRD Southern Cluster By improving the quality and quantity of eye care services, the goal of this project is to contribute towards poverty eradication and prevention of avoidable blindness by 2020.
Eye Health in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province To contribute to sustainable provision and increased demand for eye care services at the district level for people in four districts of Pakistan.
Urban Eye Care Programme - Odisha Improved Eye Health for Urban Poor and Other Vulnerable Groups through improved health Services  (systems)
Chauparan Block Pan CBR-Hazaribagh The goal of this project is to enhance the quality of life for disabled persons.
Empowering Disabled people's organisations Empowering Disabled People's Organisations
UON Postgrad. Ophthalmology The goal of the project is to contribute to the development of high-level Human Resource capacity to deliver quality eye-health services in Kenya
Zamfara State Eye Care Programme The overall aim of the project is the reduction of prevalence of blindness and visual impairment by 50% in Zamfara through the provision of high quality comprehensive eye care services by well trained and equitably distributed personnel working in well-equipped facilities with full community participation. ​
Data Disaggregation - Global Trachoma Mapping Proj The aim of this project is to determine an organisational approach to disaggregating data by disability to ensure that our programmes are accessible for PWDs.
Coordinated Approach to Eye Health To Improve treatment for eye diseases for men and women from trachoma endemic areas of Kenya,Malawi,Mozambique,uganda and Zambia.
Loonkaransar CES Urmul Setu Sansthan These five projects (64511, 64512, 64513, 64514 and 64515) were part of the Bikaner district level initiative and adopted a similar approach. These are Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Projects implemented on Comprehensive Eye Services (CES) approach as part of the district level initiative. The projects aimed to identify and rehabilitate visually impaired people, empower disabled people through the formation of a DPO (Disabled Peoples Organisation) at the block level and federating it to the District level. The projects also referred cases identified with cataract to base hospital run by Urmul Jyoti in the district and the district hospital thereby reducing the prevalence of cataract blindness. 

Over 500 people with visual impairment were supported with rehabilitation initiatives including income generation/enhancement initiatives, which enhanced their overall quality of life. 168 children with visual impairment of school going age were identified and enrolled in mainstream schools; and are continuing to receive quality education. The project also mobilized benefits about INR 23 million from various government schemes for disabled people. The advocacy initiatives also resulted in 13 times increase in allocation in livelihood schemes for disabled people in the district.
Political Participation Survey (endline) This project code is for the political participation research activities in Cameroon and Senegal. The budgets excludes salaries and overheads. Activities were suspended in 2020 due to the pandemic but have resumed in 2021.
The Right to Health: Breaking down barriers to EH Women, men, with and without disabilities and/or belonging to other marginalised groups have improved access to inclusive eye health in target districts in Pakistan.
IA PG2 Senegal Inclusive Election project To increase the political participation of women and men with disabilities by promoting representation and active involvement in the local development dynamics and in the elections.
West Bengal Inclusive Education project – Majhihir The goal of this project is to ensure quality education for all visually impaired children in Majhihira, West Bengal​
Arise NTD Nigeria Funding for one round of MDA in ex-Ascend areas to reach 46.8 million people with oncho/LF treatment by October 2022.  Support TT surgeries/case management in Nigeria.
RoS - School of EH Khartoum State ​The goal of this project is to prevent blindness and low vision due to refractive errors in school children in Khartoum state governmental primary schools
Kenya CO CWF Trachoma To accelerate goals in trachoma interventions in selected countries in the Commonwealth in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and contribute towards the global elimination of trachoma by delivering WHO endorsed SAFE strategies.
Nigeria IEP The purpose is provide equal, accessible, inclusive education services to visually impaired school age children thereby promoting access to mainstream services within their communities.

The programme targets to enable at least 50% of visually impaired children in the project area access to inclusive educational services.

The main activities of the programme include programme Management, Vision screening, Advocacy, Human Resource development, environmental modification, provision of learning aids and teaching. 

The project aims at contributing towards making education accessible to all school age children
AIR - Cote d’Ivoire Research studying the effect of Azithromycin treatment to infants on reducing child mortality in Cote d’Ivoire.
ASCEND Sightsavers - Ghana Accelerating Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ASCEND)
School Eye Health Programme - Rajasthan Good eye health is achieved and maintained, contributing to improvement in learning outcomes for all children attending Government schools
Sirohi District Social Inclusion The project focuses on promoting equal opportunities environment for disabled people in the district by integrating social inclusion approach 

In addition to ensuring basic rehabilitation (including social and education) for visually impaired people, the project will strengthen capacities of VI people on accessing and undertaking livelihood initiatives. The project will also develop leaders among disabled people in the district who will take lead in advocating for their members rights. 

So as to develop an enabling environment, the project will sensitise and support wider stakeholders in mainstreaming disability in all their development programmes.
Mumbai Eye Care Campaign Project The goal of this project is to provide accessible and affordable comprehensive eye care services to people living in the slums of Mumbai.​
CBR project The goal of this project is to improve the living conditions of the visually impaired in view to make them participate in the life of their communities . Strengthening capacity of BPOs/DPOs to improve the quality of life of their members through community development: Increase the percentage of disabled people in grassroots organizations (at community and municipal level) by 5% by 2015 in the seven intervention districts; Improve the advocacy capacity of BPO / PWD (UMAV et FEMAPH) for compliance and enforcement of their rights by 2015 at national, regional, and local; Increase coverage of 7 districts in facilities fit for people with disability by 2015 in partnership with HI; Improve the knowledge of BPO/PWD on UNCRPD Convention relating to their rights by 2015; Document and share success to facilitate scaling up in other regions after 2015; Improve eye health through mobilisation of BPOs and CBR workers; Support community development activities initiated by BPOs
VAAGDHARA Banswara district CES Project Social Inclusion project through Comprehensive Eye Services approach. It served the education, rehabilitation and eye health needs of tribal dominated community of the area. 40 visually impaired people were rehabilitated and 17 children with visual impairment were enrolled in the mainstream education setup. 
This is a CBR project implemented on a Comprehensive Eye Services approach. The project has three main components – social inclusion of visually impaired people, education of children with visual impairment and addressing the eye health needs of the community.

The project has facilitated rehabilitation of 112 VI persons and 20 children have been mainstreamed in to the wider education system. 

The project also demonstrated a convergence initiative at the district level. Under this initiative three vision centres were established for which support was raised from a Cement company in the district. The equipment for the centres was supported through the project, and government has agreed to support the human resource for the centres. The project also influenced the district administration in ensuring that all four positions of ophthalmologists are occupied, thereby ensuring required human resources at the district level as well as grassroots level. 

A DPO has been formed at the district level which has started advocating for the rights of disabled people in the area.
Tanzania NTD (Trachoma, Onchocerciasis & LF)/IANET The main goal of NTD program is to reduce morbidity due to NTDs in Tanzania through improved health and socio-economic wellbeing to a level that is no longer a public health problem by 2016 through community and school based interventions
Trachoma Elimination in Darfur To support delivery of the Government of Sudan's national trachoma control program in Darfur region of western Sudan to meet 2020 trachoma elimination target
COVID-19 Boresha Macho Inclusive Eye Health Project COVID-19 response work carried out under UKAM project in Tanzania
East UP Comprehensive Eye Care The goal of this project is to contribute towards the prevention of blindness by developing replicable approaches for comprehensive eye care in the project area and simultaneously change the behaviour of the communities.
Nigeria OV/LF Surveys - BMGF Effective coordination of completed ento surveys and epi surveys in support of stop MDA decisions for oncho and LF in Nigeria.
Keepsight - Glaucoma Orissa Keep Sight: India Glaucoma Pilot is a community-based glaucoma screening programme with active support from Allergan. The pilot district is Ganjam in Odisha, and the pilot aims to integrate Glaucoma focused elements at all levels of an existing eye care delivery system to improve the coverage of Glaucoma identification and services.
Post Ascend DRC Phase 2 (emergency) unrestricted funding to cover immediate gaps in DRC after the Ascend programme early exit. SCH/STH sub-district analysis and one round of oncho/LF MDA in DRC.
IE for visually impaired primary school children This program will improve the quality and accessibility of mainstream education for children with visual impairment in Mali.
South India Livelihood for PWDs The goal of this project is to contribute to the socio-economic empowerment of persons with disabilities (PWDs) through employment and a comprehensive development of organization of PWDs in Tamil Nadu. 
The objectives of the project are,
1. To facilitate the employment for PWDs after imparting skill based trainings and linking them to the industries and offices functional within the project districts.
2. To strengthen five District Nodal Agencies (DNAs) by building leadership qualities so that they can work towards their welfare and development. 
3. To empower the youth in the educational institutions in Tamil Nadu to become socially responsible citizens with committed approaches for the welfare and development of the PWDs.
ASCEND Country Principal – Nigeria 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.
QEDJT Uganda Implementing Partner SSI Goal: To make significant advances towards elimination of Trachoma in Uganda between 2014 and 2019
DFID external Partners -Trachoma mapping GTMP grant from DFID to map trachoma in approximately 34 suspected endemic countries.
Improving Livelihoods for Young People with Disabilities Disabled people's livelihoods project
Jharkhand EH system Strengthening programme The goal of the project is to contribute to the eradication of avoidable blindness in Jharkhand. The project covers seven districts of Jharkhand including Hazaribag, Koderma, Chatra, Khunti, Sahibganj, Godda and Pakur districts of Jharkhand.
Azythromycin Impact Research Accelerated elimination of trachoma as a public health problem by 2020
Mozambique Coordinated Approach to Eye Health To improve treatment for eye diseases for men and women from trachoma endemic areas​
COVID-19 Nampula Inclusive Eye Health COVID-19 response work carried out under JOA programme in Mozambique
WHO Strategic Support Contribution to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in support of:
1. The technical work on WHO Global report on the highest attainable standard of health for persons with disabilities
2. The global standard on accessibility of telehealth services
3. The guide for action towards disability inclusion in the health sector
Guinea Bissau OV Pre-Stop Survey - Open Road Alliance To carry out an onchocerciasis pre-Stop MDA survey in Bafata and Gabu to determine whether it will be possible to stop onchocerciasis treatments in these areas and begin Stop-MDA surveys.
Cameroon SCH/STH East Region The project aim is to have a significant drop in the prevalence of both Schistosomiasis (SCH) and Soil Transmitted Helminths (STH) through a yearly Mass Drug Administration of Mebendazole and Praziquantel in endemic areas. It is expected that morbidity resulting from SCH/STH infection will be reduced to a post intervention level of < 1% in 3 years, as per WHO elimination target. The project will strengthen the national programme against SCH/STH by ensuring Mass drug administration and supporting some Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) activities in areas with high Schistosomiasis prevalence. Improved hygiene practices at individual and community levels will contribute to maintain low transmission of the diseases.
Ghana Trachoma Elimination Programme This programme aims to eliminate blinding trachoma from Ghana by 2014 using the WHO certified approach​
Disability Capacity Building – Component 2 This programme will strengthen the capacity of OPDs and disability rights movements to support transformative and long-lasting change for persons with disabilities, through an investment aimed at generating a sustainable ‘eco-system’ of advocates, investors and technical contributors.
Bikaner District EC URMUL Jyoti This project focused on addressing primary and secondary level eye health issues in Bikaner, Churu and Nagaur districts of Rajasthan through the base hospital located in Nokha block of Bikaner. Majority of the hospital’s patients are walk-in, in addition to those referred from the seven vision centres spread across Bikaner (which are part of the social inclusion programme in the district). It conducts about 4000 cataract surgeries annually of which about 50% are supported by Sightsavers. The hospital has laid plans for sustainability by adopting a cross subsidization approach and hence is attracting paying patients from nearby districts and States.
Iringa Region CES - Eye Care The main goal of CES Iringa is to increase the number of visually impaired and blind people accessing Quality eye service and mainstreaming of these services across all the Local Country Authorities contributing to reduced levels of avoidable blindness and improved, economic development and wellbeing of the region.

1. By 2013, avoidable blindness reduced to 40% as compared to 80% in 2008
2. Increased enrolment, retention and learning outcomes of children with visual impairment and blind from 38% in 2008 to 80% in 2013
3. PWDs enabled to maximize their physical and mental abilities to access regular services and opportunities and to become active contributors to the community and society at large
4. To strengthen CES Monitoring, Evaluation and Coordination to ensure learning, accountability and sustainability.
Score Foundation ‘Eyeway’ is Score Foundation’s portal which gathers and disseminates information to visually impaired people. Eyeway currently consists of a radio show, three multi-lingual helpdesks, an SMS alert service and a website which reaches out and connects people with knowledge and information which they otherwise could not access. This project will now seek to dramatically expand the reach and impact of Eyeway by producing and airing a nationally broadcast television series. Using television as a method of communication gives the opportunity to reach out to an audience that is otherwise inaccessible through the existing Eyeway channels
Chainama Optometry Training The Programme goal is to contribute towards Human Resource Development in order to reduce the prevalence of Visual impairments caused by uncorrected refractive Error and Low Vision

The project purpose is to develop qualified personnel that could enhance the quality of refractive errors and low vision service delivery in Zambia

The Specific objective is to graduate 30 Optometrists by year 2015.

Specific activities:
ü Development of construction plans and bill of qualities
ü Process and finalise the construction tendering process
ü Construction of Hostel
ü Construction of lecture theatre / classroom block
ü Extension of clinic for optical workshop and consulting room
ü Provision of equipment, furniture and other training requirements
ü Train teaching staff
ü Develop curriculum for optometry training programme
ü Implementation of training Programme
Onchocerciasis Control/ Elimination Project The goal of this project is to eliminate infection and transmission of onchocerciasis in one of the ten states of South Sudan through sustained ivermectin treatment. The project will support ivermectin treatment to at least 80% of the eligible population and ensure 100% geographical coverage​​
Chrysops Fly Trap Contribute to the global elimination drive by supporting innovation projects. S01 Chrysops Fly Trap - if the trap proves successful more than 14 million people in Central Africa, 80% in Cameroon and about 1 million people in the South Region who are at risk of Loa loa would be able to receive onchocerciasis treatment safely.
Southern CES- Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Program The goal of this project is to contribute to poverty alleviation in Zambia by combating avoidable blindness. This will be achieved through the provision of effective and efficient eye care services in the Southern province.​
Burkina Faso OV/LF - ARISE II ARISE phase 2 is a new NTD project funded by the donor group through The END Fund to accelerate elimination of NTDs in Burkina Faso by 2030.
Rural Eye Health Programme - Rajasthan Project's goal is to improve eye health for rural poor and other vulnerable groups through improved health services and systems.
Copperbelt CES - MCDSS CBR 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
ASCEND EG SCI - DRC 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.
Malawi HRD for Eyecare The goal of this programme is to improve the training and deployment of ophthalmologists in order to increase access to and broaden the range of quality eye care services for the majority of underserved communities in Malawi by 2018​
Sri Lanka Primary Eye Care Programme The goal of this project is to reduce avoidable blindness in Sri Lanka through comprehensive eye health interventions at the primary level by year 2020.
Nigeria CWF Trachoma Accelerated elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Nigeria by 2020
Lilongwe & Districts CEC The project aims at developing an efficient and sustainable system for delivery of eye care services through the Primary Eye Care Strategy (PEC), focusing on two major objectives:

1. To Promote and demonstrate Primary Eye Care as a means of cost effective delivery of eye health services.
2. To strengthen systems for effective integration of eye health into district health plans;

With the following key activities:
Ø Capacity building of health workers – equipping them with knowledge and skills in Primary Eye Care. 
Ø Strengthening referral protocols for eye health services.
Ø Provision of vital supplies and support for surgeries.
Ø Provision of eye surgical equipment for district hospital theatres. 
Ø Advocacy for District Health Offices to fully integrate eye health services into district health plans. 

The following outcomes are expected:
Ø Integration of eye health into the district health systems 
Ø Increased uptake of eye care services by community members
Ø Strengthened role of communities and their institutions in delivery of and demand for eye health services
RoS School - Eye health project North Kordofan The aim of the project is to implement Primary Eye Care (PEC) in the rural areas of North Kordofan State, through integration of PEC in the existing Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities so that it is conducted by the PHC personnel.
MOH Eye-Care Services Objectives:
1. To strengthen and integrate PEC into PHC systems in 3 district hospitals with a view of improving uptake of services and bringing services closer to the community
2. To increase current cataract surgical rate by 25% in the targeted districts(12 districts) 
3. To enhance refractive error services by establishing optical services in two hospitals by 2011
4. Improve quality standards of eye care services by ensuring a minimum of 80% of surgeries result to good outcome by 2011.
5. Support the Division of Ophthalmic Service , Ministry of Health to enhance capacity of all eye units to implement the eye health information systems
6. Promote integration of eye care services into the district and national health systems and improve coordination at all levels
COVID-19 ASCEND Sightsavers - Nigeria COVID-19 response work carried out through repurposed ASCEND programme activity.
Guinea Bissau Trachoma - Accelrate 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.
Rajasthan Social Inclusion Programme Rajasthan Social Inclusion Programme Disabled people in Rajasthan are equal members of society and enjoy enhanced quality of life