Publications

The project “Wealth creation through integrated development of potato production” (WCPP) was aimed at addressing constraints faced by potato producers in Ethiopia, and in doing so improving the wealth and livelihoods of potato producers. The project ran from 2008-2012.

Bringing a group of diverse but interdependent stakeholders together to build and stimulate the cassava and maize sectors both goes “against the grain” and “to the roots” of agricultural development in West and Central Africa. It requires new thinking and new organizational constellations, alongside an appreciation and inclusion of long-standing actors in these food crop systems. These actors include men and women farmers, primary processors, transporters, traders, researchers, extension workers, policymakers and input suppliers, to name just a few.

This report presents a synthesis of findings on factors influencing the performance of closeto-community (CTC) providers. It is based on research conducted in six countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique, and also on evidence from an international literature review that investigated factors influencing the performance of CTC providers. These studies were carried out as part of the first phase of the REACHOUT consortium — ‘Reaching out and linking in: health systems and close-tocommunity services’ — funded by the European Union. This report describes an analytical framework for examining the factors influencing the performance of CTC providers.

En 2014, l’offre en RHSMN2 au Togo couvre environ 84% des besoins de la population en RHSMN. Ce pourcentage chutera à 73% en 2027 si le Togo maintient la tendance actuelle des efforts.

Cependant, en ce qui concerne les caractéristiques et les compétences de l’effectif, tandis que les IAE, les IDE et les TSS sont en nombre excédentaires, il existe un nombre insuffisant d’AAE (couverture de 40%), de SF (couverture de 34%), de MG (couverture de 73%) et de GYN (couverture de 44%) au niveau national. Les années à venir seront marquées par des AAE, des SF et des MG en nombre insuffisant, et un excédent d’IDE

This literature review is part of the context analysis undertaken for REACHOUT — linking communities and health systems. REACHOUT is an ambitious five-year international research consortium funded by the European Commission and aims to generate knowledge to develop the role of close-to-community (CTC) providers of health care in preventing, diagnosing and treating major illnesses and health conditions in rural and urban areas in Africa and Asia.

Objectives: To compare point-of-care (POC) systems in two different periods: (1) before 2010 when all high-risk patients were offered POC management for urogenital gonorrhoea by Gram stain examination; and (2) after 2010 when only those with symptoms were offered Gram stain examination.