Strengthening the Basics: Provincial Health Systems Strengthening to Support High Quality HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment Programs (CDC/PEPFAR)

Overview

The goal of this project was to build organizational and management capacity (including human resources management, planning, and financial management) in order to provide comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment services within a strengthened health system in four provinces: Maputo, Gaza, Cabo Delgado, and Nampula. Specific activities included:

• Support of a working group with members from the Ministry of Health (MOH) Departments of Planning, Administration and Finance and EUROSIS (a private sector organization development firm);
• Developing a capacity assessment tool for Provincial Health Directorates (DPS);
• Conducting a preliminary capacity assessment of the DPS’s planning, financial, and administrative management capacities based on data, procedures, common practices, and expectations of the MOH/DPS