Projects and references

Support to the Ministry of Public Health and Population to:
- Situate/position the hospital in its new environment (its role in the community, elected representatives, reference and counter-reference, its role in epidemiological surveillance, challenges and limitations from an economic and social point of view, etc.);
- Strengthen the hospital’s governance and organisation;
- Recruit and manage human resources in an optimal manner;
- Organise and improve health care while promoting comprehensive, integrated care for patients;
- Ensure efficient financial management;
- Ensure efficient logistical management.

This technical assistance programme is a specific support programme focusing on three components of Guinea's health system:
- Component 1 'Strengthening institutional support', whose activities will by implemented through programme estimates and particularly the central programme estimate;
- Component 2 'Institutional strengthening of the region of N’Zérékoré', whose activities will by implemented through a subsidy, programme estimates and work and supply contracts;
- Component 3: 'Strengthening of the essential generic medicine supply system', whose activities will be implemented through supply contracts.

This project involved a situation analysis of 608 health facilities of 25 health districts of Côte d’Ivoire: regional hospitals, general hospitals and urban and rural first-contact health facilities.
The study included 4 phases:
- Launch of the project;
- Evaluation of the health facilities (situation analysis);
- Architectural and technical studies (preliminary design/detailed design);
- Tender documents (provisional and final).
This study falls within the framework of achieving the objectives of the National Health Development Plan, and is one of the preconditions for the implementation of the performance-based financing strategy.

The purpose of the Mother and Child Health Support Programme (PASMI) is to help improve mother and child health in Benin. More specifically, it involves:
- improving the quality of caesareans and neonatal resuscitation at hospitals accredited by the ANGC (National Agency for Free-of-Charge Caesareans);
- enhancing the affordability of emergency obstetric and neonatal care;
- strengthening the offer of and demand for family planning services;
- improving the integration of population issues into sector strategies.

Design of a large scale health project integrating interventions related to the offer and demand of health care, through the promotion of health micro-insurance, as well as to the provision of institutional support to the MoH at central and provincial level. Definition of operational activities to improve the delivery of health care in one province (Takeo) and the capital (Phnom Penh) through a micro-insurance scheme. Design of the institutional support to the MoH in the areas of human resources, hospital policy, prevention of HIV/AIDS and maternal health. Definition of the operational modalities of the project's implementation, including financial and administrative issues and the responsibilities of the various actors.

The RESHAOC was created to develop hospital cooperation among countries of West Africa, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, with the overarching goal of ‘promoting communication and encouraging exchanges with a view to establishing a genuine technical and scientific partnership among the various hospital actors’. This network is supported by the French Development Agency (AFD).
The Fédération hospitalière de France is currently implementing the second phase of the project ‘Hospital Networks and Partners’, with the objective of (i) building partner hospitals’ capacities in terms of health care, management and practices; (ii) supporting the development of new hospital partnerships; and (iii) supporting the creation of North-South and South-South hospital networks and strengthening existing networks.
The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate the way in which the RESHAOC operates and the possibility of creating a new similar network for the Maghreb region.

The Ministry of Health and the Environment of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is conducting a review of its health care facilities and of their location, and of health service needs throughout the islands, in order to determine the site and characteristics of a new hospital to be built in replacement of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital. The overall objective of the project is to ensure a service coverage adapted to the needs identified. This study will support the development of specific functional criteria for the new hospital, particularly with respect to improvements to the national emergency medical services (EMS) system.