Projects and references

Provided institutional capacity building support to the recently established actuary and finance departments in the four main social security institutions (Social Security Department within the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Social Insurance Institution for Employees (SSK), Social Insurance Institution for Artisans, Craftsmen and other Self-Employed (BAG-KUR) and Turkish Employment Organization (ISKUR)).

In the framework of the initial training component of the Health Human Resource Development Support Project (PADRHS), Conseil Santé was mandated by the University of Montreal to help develop a paramedical training offer that meets Congo's health human resource needs. This assignment resulted in: (1) the formulation of recommendations of priority areas for paramedical training taking into account the range of paramedical occupations: (2) the identification of training programmes that could be completed at the level of the paramedical schools and of capacities to be developed in the paramedical schools to meet these needs.

The purpose of the Mother and Child Health Support Project (PASME) is to help improve mother and child health in Senegal, particularly in the three regions of Louga, Kolda and Sedhiou.
The specific objectives of the project aim to:
1) Build the capacities of the national and regional teams of Louga in charge of RH programmes
2) Improve the quality of mother and newborn care, particularly in the regions of Louga, Kolda and Sedhiou
3) Increase the offer and demand of health care services for mothers and children and young people.

Niger's Solidarity-Health-Sahel Initiative (the I3S project, ‘Initiative Solidarité-Santé-Sahel’) supports the efforts of the government and its partners to achieve the MDGs. Its overall objective is to strengthen and ensure the sustainability of free child health care from 0 to 5 years old, and its specific objectives are to: i) simplify and secure the invoice circuit by deconcentrating the validation and payment of invoices to departmental or regional level; ii) improve the monitoring, control and governance of the system for exemption from payment of care at all levels, and; iii) establish innovative, sustainable funding mechanisms. It will work in synergy with the interventions of all actors involved, in order to consolidate the existing or planned child welfare system.

The services consist in project preparatory technical assistance (PPTA) to develop a health project in the Central Highlands suitable for ADB funding in terms of technical, financial, economic, institutional, sector policy, legal, and safeguard contexts, in conjunction with the country partnership strategy, operational experience, and lessons from evaluations of previous projects.
The ensuing Project will comprise the following outputs: 1) facilities and equipment upgraded, 2) quality human resources developed, 3) financing of health services strengthened, 4) demand for health services improved, and 5) management of health services improved.

The overall project objective was to prevent the spread of HIV along the Noi Bai-Lao Cai Highway during and after the construction stage and to mitigate the increased risk of illicit drug use and human trafficking that could result from the Project in the five regions of Vinh Phuc, Phu To, Yen Bai, Lao Cai and Hanoi.
The TA consisted in the implementation of three components:
- Advocacy and capacity building;
- An information, education and behaviour change campaign;
- The provision of medical packages.