IntraHealth
For The Videoconferencing Project
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Amount$30,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/23/2013
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
IntraHealth International strengthens the skills of health workers and improves health systems in developing countries to allow each to be better able to meet the needs of the communities they serve. This grant to IntraHealth would support installation of videoconferencing equipment in its Dakar, Senegal office -- equipment that would directly benefit Hewlett Foundation-funded IntraHealth projects based in Senegal. This grant builds on a successful videoconferencing grant awarded to IntraHealth in 2012 to install similar equipment in its Nairobi, Kenya office. The organization has videoconferencing equipment in its Chapel Hill, NC and Washington, DC offices, which will allow staff in the organization's United States offices be able to more effectively communicate with staff in East and West Africa. Creating this fourth video conferencing hub in Senegal for IntraHealth will also reduce the need for staff travel to and from the United States and strengthen IntraHealth’s global communications infrastructure.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.intrahealth.org
Address
6340 Quadrangle Drive, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC, 27517, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support to civil society advocacy coalitions in West Africa
IntraHealth International facilitates the Strengthening Civil Society Engagement for Family Planning in West Africa project from their offices in Mali. This grant will allow IntraHealth to implement a one-year transitional phase of the project, which will deepen family planning advocacy efforts by coalitions across all nine Francophone West African countries. This work complements the goals of the Ouagadougou Partnership and brings together civil society advocates, religious leaders, young people, and other members of civil society to more effectively promote the provision of family planning through improved policies and strategies. The Ouagadougou Partnership is in the midst of determining the future of the partnership from 2020 to 2030, which includes an assessment of the role civil society has played and could play in promoting family planning use in the region.
for support to civil society advocacy coalitions in West Africa
IntraHealth International, Inc. facilitates the Civil Society for Family Planning project (CS4FP) from their offices in Dakar, Senegal. This support would allow IntraHealth to implement the next phase of the CS4FP project, which will deepen family planning advocacy efforts in Senegal, Mali, and Benin and launch new advocacy coalitions in Burkina Faso and Niger. This work is highly complementary to the goals of the Ouagadougou Partnership and provides civil society advocates–religious leaders, young people, health care workers, traditional advocates–the training and platforms required to more effectively promote the provision of family planning.
