Strengthening Capacity for Sustainable Health Policy, Financing, Advocacy, and Governance

To support USAID’s goal to ensure partner countries are agents of their own growth and prosperity, HP+ takes a partnership approach to capacity strengthening that is responsive to local needs and solutions. Whether at national, subnational, or local levels—or at all levels of the system—we work alongside local partners –to identify policy, advocacy, financing, and governance gaps, gather the evidence, and implement solutions with a long-term view towards sustainability. Capacity strengthening approaches, tailored to the diverse partners who play important roles in furthering policy implementation - national ministries, health departments, local governance bodies, private sector service providers, advocates, citizen groups - must be multi-faceted and mutually reinforcing. This can take various shapes, from strengthening technology systems and their use, addressing organizational needs, training on new skills, or providing space for relationships to build and thrive among and across individuals, networks, and government agencies.

Learn about these approaches and hear from local leaders in Nigeria and Kenya who are driving sustainable changes toward better health outcomes.