This Institution's name is Africa Institute of Healthcare Quality Safety and Accreditation (AfIHQSA)
This Institution's type is Private sector
This Institution's location is
Accra, Ghana | Established 2017
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Regions of Operation
Africa - West Africa
Countries of Operation
Eritrea, Ghana, Sierra Leone
Countries of Work
Eritrea, Ghana, Sierra Leone
Overview
AfIHQSA was born out a desire to bridge the knowledge and competency gap in individuals and institutions in the health sector, in the area of healthcare quality and safety. AfIHQSA positions itself to serve as that vehicle that will bring lasting and sustainable improvement in the quality of health care service delivery and respective outcomes. AfIHQSA maintains a focus on health systems in Africa in particular but making its contribution to the global efforts in improving health care quality in lower-middle income countries as well.Size
SmallAreas of Expertise
- General
- Priority-setting
- Coaching
- Curriculum development
- Process facilitation
- Training
- Remote Coaching
- Civil society engagement
- Social accountability and community advocacy for health
- Social participation and health communication
- Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
- Financing for PHC and community health (preventive, promotive, and curative care
- Pay for performance
- Resource allocation
- Change management
- Decentralization
- Health management, policy and planning
- Institutional strengthening
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Private sector engagement
- Regulation and enforcement
- Stakeholder engagement
- Strategic planning
- Strategy development
- Data reporting and analysis
- Health management information systems
- Health-related surveys
- Health promotion
- Preparedness for public health emergencies
- Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
- Human resources planning, management, training and development
- Staff motivation and retention
- Cost benefit analysis
- Data collection methodology
- Indicator development
- Knowledge management software
- Performance management plans
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Research
- Results and logical frameworks
- Family planning
- HIV/AIDS
- Malaria
- Maternal, newborn and child health
- Non-communicable diseases
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Dissemination and knowledge brokering
- Health provider capacity mapping
- Policy analysis
- Political economy analysis
- Problems and priorities assessment
- Root cause analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
- Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
- Licensing and accreditation
- Quality and quality assurance
- Service delivery networks
- Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
- Media engagement
- Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
- Risk management