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Assessing and strengthening community health systems in the Middle East and North Africa region
hera's experts assess community health systems in the Middle East and North Africa for UNICEF. This project aims to improve healthcare access in a region facing conflict and strengthen its response to health threats.
Summative evaluation of the WHO Rapid Access Expansion (RAcE) Initiative
In 2012 the government of Canada provided a grant to the WHO Global Malaria Programme (GMP) to support the scale-up of the diagnosis and treatment of children with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria by Community Health Workers, an approach known as integrated community case management (iCCM). The six-year programme, labeled the Rapid Access Expansion (RAcE) initiative, distinguished itself from other internationally funded iCCM programmes by aiming to achieve universal health coverage for all children in hard-to-reach areas within selected geographic boundaries.