ESTHER Switzerland (Ensemble pour une Solidarité Thérapeutique Hospitalière En Réseau)

Direct: health care staff in hospitals in low and middle-income countries.

Indirectly: Poor and vulnerable populations in the catchment area of these institutions as well as national decision makers and managers in health systems in partner countries.

1)     Institutional health partnerships in low and middle-income countries that involve Swiss institutions address priority needs of the partner institutions and populations are demand-driven and build on Swiss knowhow and expertise.

2)     Results, lessons learned and good practices from institutional health partnership projects involving Swiss institutions are processed and used to influence technical and policy discussions and decisions at national, regional and global level.

3)     The ESTHER Switzerland profile and organisational structure are strengthened and funding is diversified.

Resultados previstos:  

·       ESTHER Switzerland partnership projects, mainly involving hospitals, are selected, improved and implemented as per the quality standards of the ESTHER Global Alliance and ESTHER Switzerland.

·       All projects integrate in their proposal a Theory of Change including in which way their intervention may trigger a systemic change and demonstrate how this was applied during the implementation.

·       Results, lessons learned and good practices from ESTHER Switzerland projects are synthesised and disseminated within and beyond the institutions involved in the partnership project, as well as the national health system in the respective project country.

·       ESTHER Switzerland Strategy is developed, communicated and effectively implemented.

·      ESTHER Switzerland fundraising and communication capacities are strengthened with the development and implementation of specific fundraising and communication concepts.

Resultados de las fases anteriores:  

·     ESTHER Switzerland is increasingly known as a centre of competence for institutional health partnerships.

·     Between 2016-2019, 19 partnership projects were realised with involvement and expertise of Swiss health institution (mainly hospitals). Efforts are required to best possibly match the demand from partner institutions with the offer and available expertise from Swiss institutions.

·     The chances to achieve sustainable results through institutional health partnerships are increased when participating Swiss health institutions have expertise in international cooperation in health or when they partner with Swiss institutions who have such expertise.

·     The transfer of good practices from a participating institution in a low and middle-income country to other similar institutions or the health system in the given country needs to be more explicitly built into the projects.

·     The Global Alliance for Institutional Health Partnerships is a valuable platform for knowledge and experience sharing.

Fase 2 01.12.2019 - 30.11.2024   (Completed)