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THE SAVING LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS INITIATIVE: SLL

Even though there has been  a tremendous increase in resources available for health care delivery from donors to combat global epidemics, including the Global Fund for AIDS, TB, and Malaria; a weak health system characterised by health worker shortages have led to a lack of preventive, curative and health promotion programs, making it unlikely the world’s poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This task has been exacerbated by changing global climate phenomena that has disproportionately affected health care delivery in the developing countries.

The health systems in the developing world suffer from insufficient financial and human resources, limited institutional capacity and infrastructure, weak health information systems, widespread inequity, absence of community participation and lack of transparency and accountability.  It’s our belief that the development of health systems should be grounded in the human right to the highest attainable standard of health for communities and that health systems must be effective, integrated, and evidence based, embracing activities to promote health, prevent disease, and offer diagnosis and treatment; be based on principles of comprehensiveness, coordination, equity, quality, non-discrimination, transparency, participation, and accountability to prevent corruption; and ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable members of society have effective access to the services and programs the health system offers.

At SADAR we envisage to support a health system that supports  integrated, holistic and sustainable health delivery that increases access to quality health care in fragile countries through health systems strengthening at the national, regional, district and community levels, providing tailored assistance and capacity strengthening that boosts engagement, capabilities all levels of a country’s health system.  

Our approach encompasses the World Health Organisations building blocks of health systems strengthening (HSS) which includes,

  • Good health services systems are those which deliver effective, safe, quality personal and non-personal health interventions to those that need them, when and where needed, with minimum waste of resources.
  •  A well-performing health workforce is one that works in ways that are responsive, fair and efficient to achieve the best health outcomes possible, given available resources and circumstances for instance sufficient staff that is fairly distributed, competent, responsive and productive).
  •  A well-functioning health information system is one that ensures the production, analysis, dissemination and use of reliable and timely information on health determinants, health system performance and health status.
  • A well-functioning health system ensures equitable access to essential medical products, vaccines and technologies of assured quality, safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness, and their scientifically sound and cost-effective use.
  • A good health financing system raises adequate funds for health, in ways that ensure people can use needed services, and are protected from financial catastrophe or impoverishment associated with having to pay for them. It provides incentives for providers and users to be efficient.
  • Leadership and governance involve ensuring strategic policy frameworks exist and are combined with effective oversight, coalition building, regulation, attention to system-design and accountability.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

No other health intervention reaches as many people globally as immunisation which gives vaccination the edge when it comes to improving equitable access to healthcare delivery especially in fragile and poor countries. It’s for this reason that SADAR has partnered with the Mastercard Foundation and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and The Ministry of Health in Somalia in implementing the “The Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative” which is a three-year program designed to save the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Africa and hasten the economic recovery of the continent in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiatives will help in the  acquisition and deployment of vaccines for communities supporting the delivery of vaccinations to millions across the continent, laying the groundwork for vaccine manufacturing in Africa by focusing on human capital development, and strengthening the capacity of Africa CDC. SADAR is working in partnership  with AMREF, African CDC and the Federal ministry of health in Somalia and Djibouti.

The implementation of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative will synergize the efforts of the Federal government of Somalia, the Republic of Djibouti , Africa CDC, and AMREF and other partners in increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake through campaigns that will focus on Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE), vaccine capacity, logistics, and vaccine surveillance to enable the Federal Republic of Somalia and its member states to reach its COVID-19 vaccination target by integration COVID-19 vaccination into routine immunizations.

Even though there has been  a tremendous increase in resources available for health care delivery from donors to combat global epidemics, including the Global Fund for AIDS, TB, and Malaria; a weak health system characterised by health worker shortages have led to a lack of preventive, curative and health promotion programs, making it unlikely the world’s poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This task has been exacerbated by changing global climate phenomena that has disproportionately affected health care delivery in the developing countries.

The health systems in the developing world suffer from insufficient financial and human resources, limited institutional capacity and infrastructure, weak health information systems, widespread inequity, absence of community participation and lack of transparency and accountability.  It’s our belief that the development of health systems should be grounded in the human right to the highest attainable standard of health for communities and that health systems must be effective, integrated, and evidence based, embracing activities to promote health, prevent disease, and offer diagnosis and treatment; be based on principles of comprehensiveness, coordination, equity, quality, non-discrimination, transparency, participation, and accountability to prevent corruption; and ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable members of society have effective access to the services and programs the health system offers.

At SADAR we envisage to support a health system that supports  integrated, holistic and sustainable health delivery that increases access to quality health care in fragile countries through health systems strengthening at the national, regional, district and community levels, providing tailored assistance and capacity strengthening that boosts engagement, capabilities all levels of a country’s health system.  

Our approach encompasses the World Health Organisations building blocks of health systems strengthening (HSS) which includes,

  • Good health services systems are those which deliver effective, safe, quality personal and non-personal health interventions to those that need them, when and where needed, with minimum waste of resources.
  •  A well-performing health workforce is one that works in ways that are responsive, fair and efficient to achieve the best health outcomes possible, given available resources and circumstances for instance sufficient staff that is fairly distributed, competent, responsive and productive).
  •  A well-functioning health information system is one that ensures the production, analysis, dissemination and use of reliable and timely information on health determinants, health system performance and health status.
  • A well-functioning health system ensures equitable access to essential medical products, vaccines and technologies of assured quality, safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness, and their scientifically sound and cost-effective use.
  • A good health financing system raises adequate funds for health, in ways that ensure people can use needed services, and are protected from financial catastrophe or impoverishment associated with having to pay for them. It provides incentives for providers and users to be efficient.
  • Leadership and governance involve ensuring strategic policy frameworks exist and are combined with effective oversight, coalition building, regulation, attention to system-design and accountability.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

No other health intervention reaches as many people globally as immunisation which gives vaccination the edge when it comes to improving equitable access to healthcare delivery especially in fragile and poor countries. It’s for this reason that SADAR has partnered with the Mastercard Foundation and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and The Ministry of Health in Somalia in implementing the “The Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative” which is a three-year program designed to save the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Africa and hasten the economic recovery of the continent in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiatives will help in the  acquisition and deployment of vaccines for communities supporting the delivery of vaccinations to millions across the continent, laying the groundwork for vaccine manufacturing in Africa by focusing on human capital development, and strengthening the capacity of Africa CDC. SADAR is working in partnership  with AMREF, African CDC and the Federal ministry of health in Somalia and Djibouti.

The implementation of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative will synergize the efforts of the Federal government of Somalia, the Republic of Djibouti , Africa CDC, and AMREF and other partners in increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake through campaigns that will focus on Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE), vaccine capacity, logistics, and vaccine surveillance to enable the Federal Republic of Somalia and its member states to reach its COVID-19 vaccination target by integration COVID-19 vaccination into routine immunizations.