Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Funding to support Medair’s Health activities comes from an array of European donors, of which German Federal Foreign Office “Auswärtiges Amt in German” and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) are the primary donors. The current funding cycle extends from 2023-2025. The current health project activities are designed to: 1. Improve access to primary health care and vaccination services, particularly for women and children under five. 2. Improve the quality of health care services provided by supported healthcare facilities 3. Increase community knowledge and practice of improved health, nutrition, and hygiene behaviours, particularly among families with children under five 4. Increase access to psychosocial support in the community and mental health services in PHC facilities. Key project areas under these objectives include supporting health behaviours among families with children under 5 years of age including: 1. Health seeking behaviour 2. Diarrhoea and respiratory tract infection management for children 3. Vaccinations 4. Reproductive health management 5. Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices 6. Access to reproductive and psychosocial services. To track performance against project indicators (Annex 1), a standardized annual Knowledge, Practice, and Coverage (KPC) household survey is applied to a random sample of mothers – both Syrian and Lebanese – in the Medair supported PHC project areas. Medair conducted its first KPC survey in November 2015 and has repeated the survey each year. The survey data tracks project indicator progress and also provides evidence for Medair, MOPH and donors regarding the maternal and child health situation in the Bekaa valley and other areas of interest and further inform future decision-making, advocacy, and programming. This year with the change of the targeted facilities and areas the KPC will be used as a baseline of the 39 indicators (Annex I). For supported clinics, the indicators will be compared later to the end of project findings provide suggestions for adaptations or new programming approaches whilst for non-supported clinics provide evidence-based data for community health needs and gaps for service provision. Funding to support Medair’s Health activities comes from an array of European donors, of which German Federal Foreign Office “Auswärtiges Amt in German” and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) are the primary donors. The current funding cycle extends from 2023-2025. The current health project activities are designed to:
- Improve access to primary health care and vaccination services, particularly for women and children under five.
- Improve the quality of health care services provided by supported healthcare facilities
- Increase community knowledge and practice of improved health, nutrition, and hygiene behaviours, particularly among families with children under five
- Increase access to psychosocial support in the community and mental health services in PHC facilities.
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