Community Empowerment for Health (Wiwanana)

Cabo Delgado is one of the provinces with the worst health indicators within Mozambique, and the two project districts, Chiúre and Ancuabe, are at the bottom of the ranking within Cabo Delgado. The proposed project aims at making the rural population in these two districts less vulnerable from disease and at generally improving their health status. Solidarmed will work to improve key determinants of health at grassroots level through a capacity building process based on community participation and empowerment of civil society with a focus on village health groups. The project wants also to address the communication and collaboration gap between communities and health staff through the establishment of mediating relationships and capacity building of the National Health System staff including village health workers.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner Swiss Non-profit Organisation Solidarmed
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    3’300’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    3’132’592
Project phases	Phase 4 01.05.2016 - 31.10.2019   (Completed) Phase 3 01.01.2013 - 30.04.2016   (Completed) Phase 2 01.01.2009 - 28.02.2013   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	HEALTH
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Basic health care
  Cross-cutting topics	The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme. The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes. The project also supports partner organisation improvements
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Project and programme contribution
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F06006