Grants and Contributions:
Title:
East Africa: Resilient Health Systems
Agreement Number:
7465673 P013192001
Agreement Value:
$14,000,000.00
Agreement Date:
Mar 21, 2025 - Mar 31, 2032
Description:
This project seeks to enhance equitable health systems responding to and managing the long-term health needs of targeted vulnerable communities. This includes Tonj North County, Warrap State, South Sudan and Tulo Woreda, West Hararghe, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Project activities include: (1) establishing a Health Training Fund (HTF) and supporting the diversification of funding for student loans in Ethiopia; (2) conducting awareness-raising sessions on sexual and reproductive health and rights conducted for women and girls; (3) supporting health centres to provide sexual and reproductive health (SRH). This includes access to contraception and family planning, mental health, prevention and treatment of STIs, safe abortion and post-abortion care and access to youth-friendly health services; and (4) providing capacity building training to health care and nutrition center staff including community members on basic emergency care, maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN), STI prevention, Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC), integrated community case management of common childhood illnesses (ICCM), wash for nutrition, and nutritional screening. The project benefits 75,000 rights-holders including men, women, girls, boys and people with disabilities in both Ethiopia and South Sudan.
Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Expected Results:
The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased availability, capacity, and governance of the healthcare workforce; (2) improved quality of decision-making around healthcare services through the establishment and strengthening of a robust health management information system (HMIS); and (3) increased equitable use of primary, sexual and reproductive health and nutrition services, by women, men, girls, and boys.
Location:
BURLINGTON, Ontario, CA L7M 1A9
Reference Number:
064-2024-2025-Q4-00063
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
3203821896875
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
Islamic Relief Canada
Federal Riding Name:
Burlington
Federal Riding Number:
35015
Program:
Contributions-Partnership Programming
Program Purpose:
Contribution Programmation partenariat