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PROPEL Salud y su socio local Busara están rompiendo "los ciclos de retroalimentación negativa de atención integral inadecuada para las sobrevivientes" de #violenciadegénero en #Guatemala. Adicionalmente, su enfoque único podría cambiar la forma en que identificamos y diseñamos las intervenciones políticas.   Con la unitización del ejercicios de mapear sistemas, un modelo de sistemas computacionales y la ciencia del comportamiento, el equipo pudo identificar 15 intervenciones que podrían tener un impacto positivo en el sistema de salud de Guatemala y en las vidas de sobrevivientes.   ¿Quiere saber cómo se logró? Leer más acá: https://lnkd.in/eMVwSNwx USAID Guatemala | USAID

Hear Department of Health Services - Mombasa County's Dr. Mercy Bruba share her experience with USAID #Kenya and PROPEL Health. In 2024, USAID through PROPEL Health supported Kenya's Council of Governors to develop and launch a manual to strengthen #PublicFinancialManagement. Last month, our team in Kenya supported Mombasa County to use the manual to train their health facility managers. #healthfinancing | #healthsystemsstrengthening | County Government of Mombasa | Ministry of Health, Kenya | USAID Global Health

Community healthcare workers are a critical component of #PrimaryHealthCare worldwide.     In efforts to uplift the importance of community health workers, PROPEL Health, in collaboration with USAID and O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, supported the development of a report through the Community Health Diversity Partnership entitled, Investing in Community Health Workers to Accelerate Primary Health Care, https://lnkd.in/e7zjHB54.   As led by Erin K. McGinn on behalf of PROPEL Health, this report compiled data on the community health workforce from 16 countries worldwide. During the World Health Summit, Atul Gawande launched this report to unite countries, donors, multilateral organizations, and civil society to support the integration of community health workforce within health systems worldwide. #healthworkerssavelives #WHS2024 #healthsystemsstrengthening #CHWs

Worth the read! Check out this new article by PROPEL Health's Deputy Director of Health Financing, Eduardo Gonzalez-Pier, on his work with the The Lancet Group's Global Health 2050 report and actionable steps to achieving #UHC. As Eduardo highlights, "The report offers a useful and compelling reminder to low and middle-income countries: you don’t need a fully funded or perfectly functioning health system to start making a significant difference. Governments, development partners, and implementers – with the support of civil society and the private sector – can deliver measurable results by prioritising the most impactful interventions while building stronger systems over time." #healthsystemsstrengthening | USAID | The Lancet Group

In Guatemala, USAID Guatemala through PROPEL Health supported the Ministerio de Salud de Guatemala to prepare a financial analysis of the health sector. This analysis was used by Ministry officials to successfully advocate for a US$146.2 million health budget increase, including US$79.8 million for the construction of a hospital specialized in cancer prevention, care, and treatment.   With more funding for health, Guatemala will be able to continue and scale up programs like these to support maternal and child health in rural communities:  https://lnkd.in/gGnQjS6U #MaternalHealth #MaternalAndChildHealth #HealthFinancing USAID Global Health

As we kick off #NewYears2025, we're reflecting on what's been accomplished thus far and what more needs to be done. In #Kenya, USAID through PROPEL Health supported 9 counties with their budget formulation process, by working with each county to convene working group meetings, set priorities, determine resource requirements, and share recommendations. As a result, 6 counties increased their health budgets for the next fiscal year by a combined US$26.5 million, with 49% of the overall budget increase for health. #HealthFinancing #DomesticResourceMobilization

What's needed for sustained health systems strengthening? ✔️ Engaged communities taking the lead ✔️ Community-led monitoring data to ensure accountability and effective and efficient implementation ✔️ Co-creation of integrated programming that is culturally relevant As the article encourages, "The new year offers the perfect opportunity to pause, reflect, and recalibrate on #HealthSystemsStrengthening approaches." So let's pause, reflect, and get to work! https://lnkd.in/e4jaEzfT PROPEL Health | Palladium: Make It Possible | USAID

As we reflect on 2024, we are proud of the accomplishments in conjunction with our country partners around the world. Working in 22 countries, with mission buy-in from 16 countries and new collaborations underway in Jordan, Madagascar, Timor-Leste and Zambia, we have:  ✔️ Helped our partners mobilize more than US$876 million for health from public and private sources. ✔️ Provided technical support to country governments to develop, adopt, revise, and/or implement and monitor over 74 policies.  ✔️ Scaled up our work to strengthen #globalhealthsecurity and support resilient health systems in several countries, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Madagascar. ✔️ Helped establish, expand, strengthen, or reform 29 governance structures or mechanisms.   As we look to 2025, we are excited to continue this momentum and work with country counterparts to build stronger, equitable, more resilient, and tailored health systems around the world. Happy New Year! USAID | RTI International | PRB | Avenir Health | Samasha Medical Foundation | African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) | Palladium: Make It Possible

Latest news from #Malawi! Three PROPEL Health-trained #youthleaders secured competitive, start-up grants from the National Youth Council of Malawi. "The achievement surpasses the milestone of receiving grants or the prospects of economic empowerment. It strengthens their agency to distance themselves from some of the factors that increase their vulnerability to gender-based violence and early marriages." Get the full story at: https://lnkd.in/eu4Ek_sW #YouthCooperativeGrant USAID | Sandra Mapemba | USAID Global Health | Citizen Impact Organisation (CIO)

PROPEL Health teamed up with the El Salvador Ministry of Health to facilitate a pilot training course for 100 community health workers on health service delivery with a focus on One Health.     One of the graduates said: “I learned that health promotion is more than just giving talks in schools, but we should be more aware of what is happening with the population and any outbreak of disease.”    Check out the full story ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ga6exvE5 #OneHealth | #HealthWorkers | #ElSalvador | Palladium: Make It Possible