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WEST AFRICAN INITIATIVE TO STRENGTHEN CAPACITIES
THROUGH HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH
WEST AFRICAN INITIATIVE TO STRENGTHEN CAPACITIES
THROUGH HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Dakar, Aprilk 24 , 2017
Dr Namoudou KEITA
Update of the Regional Project « West
African Initiative to Strengthen Capacities
through Health Systems Research »
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Content
• Context
• Objectives
• Implementation Framework
• What is done (successes, Challenges):
– RCC
– Call for Concept Notes
– WAHO
– Research Teams
• Conclusion
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Context (1/2)
• WAHO Primary Health Care approach & Health Systems
Strengthening : HSPR to strengthen Health Systems
• Beginning: Dialogue (November 2011): Governance and
Equity in health systems Programme of IDRC
• WAHO as a regional institution is able to conduct the
regional project
• How to establish Dialogue between Researchers and Decision
Makers at the beginning and during the implementation of
research projects?
• How this relationship could improve use of evidence to
strengthen implementation of health programmes and
policies?
• Operational principle : Learning by doing
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Overall objective
To support a West African initiative that
contributes to establishing a body of
knowledge about strengthening
equitable health systems that is in turn
used to influence national and local
programs and policies.
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Specific Objectives
• Generate an evidence base of rigorous and relevant
research results addressing specific health systems
problems that can be used to inform policy
development and implementation
• Strengthen relationships across multi-stakeholder
groups of researchers, practitioners and decision-
makers with the responsibility for addressing the
specific problems that have been identified
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Specific Objectives
• Build the capacity of junior researchers through
provision of bursary support as part of each grant
• Promote regional collaboration for policy influence
through strengthening relationships with the West
African Health Organization, regional leaders on
health systems and researchers engaged through this
project in health systems research
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Specific Objectives
• Support the development of strategic
outputs that can inform policy and
practice based on the results and lessons
learned, e.g. policy briefs, peer reviewed‑
articles, and a special supplement on
research results.
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IMPLEMENTING FRAMEWORK
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NIGERIA
CPED
SIERRA
LEONE
NP
BURKINA
FASO
SERSAP
SENEGAL
CREFDES
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE DEPARTMENT (WAHO)
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE (IDRC)
RREGIONAL CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE (RCC)
TECHNICAL EXPERTS
NATIONAL
STEERING
COMMITTEE
NATIONAL
STEERING
COMMITTEE
NATIONAL
STEERING
COMMITTEE
NATIONAL
STEERING
COMMITTEE
REGIONAL LEVEL
COUNTRY LEVEL
Supports; annuel meetings; regional and International
meetings; Monitoring, Evaluation and Documentation;
Opportunities
Under
WAHO
Leadership
Under
MOHs
Leadership
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IMPLEMENTING FRAMEWORK
MOH
Research
Teams
Steering
Committees
Populations
Other
Health
Actors
WAHO RCC
IDRC
Technical
Experts
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What is done?
Establishment of Regional Consultative
Committee (RCC)
• Roles of RCC:
• Contribute to Regional reflection & orientation,
• Technical support to research teams (mentoring),
• Undertake new initiatives in HSPR,
• Work as volunteers
Composition: Regional Experts from Academics, Institutes,
MoHs; Francophones, Anglophones and Lusophones
• Annual meetings
• Conferences
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What is done?
Establishment of Regional Consultative
Committee (RCC)
• Successes:
– Commitment in participating in several steps of the regional project:
Research design and implementation, MLE diagnosis analysis
– One of members is the President of 3rd
Global Symposium
– Encouragement of individual or group initiatives from members
(case of Pr. Irene Agyepong at UG* - )
– More involvement is expected for the future - Opportunity to
contribute to the new Project
• Challenges:
– Availability of members
– Need to formalise their status
– Interest conflict is prohibit (1 case)
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What is done?
Call for concept notes
• Rigorous review process based on selection criteria
– Transparency
– Management of conflict interests
– Support for finalization of proposals (from IDRC international
experts, WAHO and RCC)
• 4 proposals were shortlisted:
– CPED in Benin City
– Northern Polytechnic in Sierra Leone
– CREFDES in Senegal
– SERSAP in Burkina Faso
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What is done?
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N° COUNTRIES RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS TITLE OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
1 Nigeria Centre for Population and
Environmental Development
(CPED)
Strengthening the health system in Nigeria
through improved equitable access to Primary
Health Care (PHC): The Case of Delta State, Niger
Delta region
2 Sierra Leone Northern Polytechnic Identifying barriers to accessing free health care
services for pregnant women in health facilities
in Bombali District, Northern Sierra Leone
3 Burkina Faso Société d’Etudes et de
Recherche en Santé Publique
(SERSAP)
Évaluation de l’efficacité de l’équité des
systèmes de santé de districts afin de favoriser
des prises de décisions fondées sur
l’amélioration de l’équité d’accès aux prestations
offertes par les systèmes de santé
4 Sénégal Centre de Recherche et de
Formation pour le
Développement Économique et
Social (CREFDES)
Financement de la santé au Sénégal: efficacité et
gouvernance
• Call for concept notes
• Themes of proposals
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What is done?
Call for concept notes
• Successes:
– More than 60 proposals received
– Inputs from RCC members
– Support from Technical Experts
• Challenges:
– Involvement of RCC members during the launch of call of concept
notes
– Management of interest conflicts
– Monitoring Learning and Evaluation
– Communication process with Steering Committees
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What is done?
Support to WAHO:
• Grants Management:
– Management of Regional Initiative
– Management of Capacity Building
– Management of Northern Polytechnic Research Project
• Capacity building: Recruitment of a Research Assistant
• Participation to regional and international conferences:
– Organize Satellite Meetings (Global Symposiums: Cape Town,
Vancouver)
• Other supports to WAHO from IDRC (TC, Visite to
WAHO Head Quarter)
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What is done?
Support to WAHO:
• Successes:
– Commitment of WAHO Directors General and Directors in
charge of PHC and Research/HIS
• Activities integrated in WAHO annual plan
• Projects Coordination Unit established in WAHO
• Formal letters sent to MOHs to introduce research teams
– Briefing visits made to the MOHs
– This regional project contributed to inspire WAHO in
obtaining a new regional project from IDRC (maternal,
Newborn and Child Health)
– Production of an Abstract and an Article on Steering
Committee approach - 4th
Global Symposium and
Supplement
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What is done?
Support to WAHO:
• Challenges:
– Communication with some research teams - Especially case
of Northern Polytechnic
– Pursuit of the catalytic role between research teams and
MoH and with Steering committees
– Ebola Virus Epidemic in the region case of NP/Makeni)
– Support from technical Experts
– Late of research results publishing (SERSAP, CREFDES)
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What is done?
Supports to Research Teams :
• Methodology meeting with 7 Research Teams in
Bobo October 2012
• Induction meeting Research teams, RCC, Technical
Experts) – Dakar May 2013
• Support from Technical Experts (CREFDES, CPED, NP)
in order to finalize their research design
• Grants from IDRC to research teams
• Support from WAHO/IDRC to Research Teams:
– Dialogue with Ministries of Health
– Establishing Steering Committees
– Financial support to CPED and NP (to publish findings)
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What is done?
Supports to Research Teams :
• Successes:
– Introduction Research teams to Ministries of Health by WAHO
– Catalyzing relationship between Research teams and Technical
Experts by WAHO
– All Research Team validated their proposals with National
Ethic Committee
– Establishing Steering Committee:
o Under MoHs Authorities
o Composition: several stakeholders
o At least three meeting were hold for each Research Team – TOR
clarified, inputs integrated in the process, etc.
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What is done?
Supports to Research Teams :
• Successes:
– Preliminary results from analysis published:
oCPED (policy briefs), Dissemination of results in 25 LG in
Delta State; Interest from Federal MoH
oSERSAP (Regional Conference on Health District and
Decentralization); the proposed Health District
Evaluation Approach in ongoing to be considered by
MoH. Dissemination workshops started.
oNorthern Polytechnic: Policy Brief, Article finalized.
Dissemination workshop done with commitment of
Bomabali District Council for local development plan
oCREFDES: Policy Brief, Articles ongoing; Interest from
MoH and MF: Hospital Reform (# specialists VS
Performance)
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What is done?
Supports to Research Teams :
• Challenges:
– Delay of starting for some research teams
– Communication matters
– Functionality of steering committees
– Monitoring Evaluation and Learning mechanism
– Delay of producing findings and publishing them
– How to achieve expectations during the extension period?
– How to help from regional level?
– How can do Technical Experts and members of RCC?
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Next Steps
ACTIVITIES PERIODE RESPONSIBLES
Technical support to some Research Teams Janaury-
May 2017
Research teams
WAHO
Documentation of the entire Initiative and production
of policy briefs.
May 2017 WAHO
Support to Northern Polytechnic Project for publishing
research findings
March
2017
Research Team
Share relevant research findings at country and
regional level
January-
June 2017
WAHO
Progress reports January-
July 2017
WAHO
Reserach teams
Final report July 2017 WAHO
Reserach teams
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• All Research Projects are providing interesting findings which are
ongoing to be used by decision Makers;
• Existence challenges vary according to the context of
implementation of each Research Team;
• Importance to be more objective and more practical about next
steps: ensuring production of results, approach to sharing results
and using findings to influence policy and health programs;
• This Regional Initiative need to be extended taking into
consideration lessons learnt from it.
CONCLUSION
The overall objective of this call is to support a West African initiative that contributes to establishing a body of knowledge about strengthening equitable health systems that is in turn used to influence national and local programs and policies. The research teams and the resulting research will also be linked to efforts by the West African Health Organization (WAHO) and a regional reference group of leaders to contribute to regional strengthening of institutions and key stakeholders in their effort to improve health outcomes for their region.
Specific objectives
Generate an evidence base of rigorous and relevant research results addressing specific health systems problems that can be used to inform policy development and implementation
Strengthen relationships across multi-stakeholder groups of researchers, practitioners and decision-makers with the responsibility for addressing the specific problems that have been identified
Build the capacity of junior researchers through provision of bursary support as part of each grant
Promote regional collaboration for policy influence through strengthening relationships with the West African Health Organization, regional leaders on health systems and researchers engaged through this project in health systems research
Produce strategic outputs that can inform policy and practice based on the results and lessons learned, e.g. policy briefs, peer‑reviewed articles, and a special peer-reviewed supplement on research results.
*Strengthening in country health policy and systems research capacity in West Africa
