Project profile — Strengthening the Data-Driven Health System in Ghana

• Ghana (100.00%)

• Health, General: Health policy and administrative management (12110) (30.00%)
• Basic health care:
Basic health care (12220) (10.00%)
Basic nutrition (12240) (10.00%)
Health personnel development (12281) (30.00%)
• Reproductive health care:
Reproductive health care (13020) (10.00%)
Personnel development for population and reproductive health (13081) (10.00%)

• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Nutrition (significant objective)
• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)

This project aims to reduce preventable death and illness among women, children and newborns in Ghana, especially the marginalized or vulnerable. By using data-driven innovative approaches, the project seeks to increase health system’s capacity, improve service delivery and strengthen the implementation of health guidelines and policies. Project activities include: (1) developing a competency framework and key performance indicators to complete regular performance appraisals of health managers and providers; (2) using the community scorecard to strengthen community engagement in health service delivery; (3) establishing an innovation hub within Ghana Health Services; (4) supporting 60 health facilities to implement an integrated package of services for improved health service delivery; and (5) creating 40 district dashboards to improve national health data systems. The project expects to support 60 health facilities in 20 districts to improve their performance. The project will pilot four innovations by establishing a hub that will train 200 mentors and build health worker’s capacity to provide quality services. In total, it expects to reach 200,000 women and 500,000 children with improved health care services.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) Improved care provision of essential services package by health care providers and managers; (2) Strengthened community and health facility linkages built through community-based integrated service delivery; and (3) Improved practice of evidence-informed policymaking for equitable, comprehensive health policies.

Results up to December 2023 include: (1) trained 50 health workers in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health implementation strategies and quality improvement. They now mentor other health practitioners on these practices; (2) trained 150 nurses and midwives to properly document care of newborns, children, and women in labour; (3) trained 95 community health nurses in gender-responsive community engagement, leadership, community mobilization, and resource mobilization; (4) developed a community health map in consultation with communities to allow community members to provide feedback on care at health facilities, and trained 60 community members in the use of the map; and (5) UNICEF provided technical support to the Ministry of Health and the National Gender Technical Working Group to review and update the existing Health Sector Gender Policy.

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