Professionalising Healthcare Management


Professionalizing Health Management in Africa was a three-year subgrant (2019-2022) under UNICEF funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support UNICEF East and Southern African Regional Office (ESARO) on their District Health Systems Strengthening initiative (DHSSi) grant. FPD’s role was to support UNICEF ESARO and local institutional partners to develop and professionalize district healthcare management in support of improved district health governance and management performance in target districts in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda (2018, 2019-2022). FPD’s main areas of expertise spanned three key areas: a) Educational development technical assistance and quality assurance, b) PHM advocacy, technical advice, and Higher Education (HE) technical assistance, and c) Hosting and facilitating a Knowledge Exchange. Building on the partnership model of expert content development and HSS training partner, FPD’s partnership with UNICEF has expanded to new countries (South Africa (2021-2022, 2022-2023), Mozambique (2021-2023), São Tomé and Príncipe (2022-2023), new focus areas (Evidence Based Planning using the Bottleneck Analysis Approach (EBP/BNA), facilitation skills development, management soft skills development, Reach Every District (RED) guideline customization to the South African context and training) and languages (English & Portuguese). Please contact the FPD Team at foundation@foundation.co.za  to find out more about the existing training programs , or explore opportunities for co-design within your context.




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