To increase access to modern family planning (FP) methods, the Capacity Project is working with faith-based organizations (FBOs) to implement a strategy to provide the methods in secondary posts near FBO clinics in 11 districts in Rwanda.

Voices from the Capacity Project

In Tanzania, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare urgently needs health workers to serve hard-to-reach communities. "They're in desperate need of hiring people in rural districts," says Shari Adler, who has been working with the Capacity Project in Dar es Salaam.

In the country's response to HIV, the Ministry has deemed its shortfall in human resources for health (HRH) as an emergency. To begin to address this gap, the Ministry is expanding antiretroviral therapy services through an Emergency Hiring Program that will bring 365 new health workers to 25 underserved districts in two phases. The first phase, now underway, will place 176 new hires in 19 districts.

Partnering with the Ministry, "the Benjamin William Mkapa HIV/AIDS Foundation handles the new hire aspect," Adler explains, "while the Capacity Project handles the HRH system strengthening aspect" by helping district leaders develop long-term solutions to recruitment and retention problems.