With a mission to contribute to improved and equitable reproductive, maternal, new-born, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) outcomes in West Africa, ARHR with funding from International Development Research Centre (IDRC), is implementing a project titled ‘Catalysing leadership to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health outcomes in West Africa’.
ARHR is supporting multi-stakeholder, multi-level leadership, evidence informed advocacy, and networking for RMNCAH agenda setting, decision making and implementation in five (5) West African countries; Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Niger and Sierra Leone through this project. The project is using scorecard assessments to amplify the voices of key patient groups to facilitate citizen-provider dialogue around health service delivery, accountability and improvement.
The expected outcome of the project is to enhance national and sub-national capacity in Anglophone and Francophone West African countries to use routine health management information systems, vital registration, health research data and evidence in public health policy and program decision making and implementation. In Ghana, the project is taking place in the Volta and Eastern Regions and focuses on the South Dayi and Akyemansa districts.