Expanding market-oriented and gender-equitable health research training capacity for improved access to and quality of health services
NICHE-TZA-005
Sector
Health sector
Project budget
The maximum budget for this project is € 2 million.
Organisations
This project has been developed by the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI). The tender for this project expired on 21 June 2010. Nuffic has awarded this tender to the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), which has formed a consortium with University of Groningen.
Project description
The aim of this project is to strengthen IHI’s human and institutional capacity for developing relevant research and to increase the capacity for synthesising health information from various sources. The project will develop training modules which are aligned with labour market needs and IHI's gender policy will become fully integrated into all practical activities.
Finally, the project will reinforce organisational and institutional development.
Ifakara Health Institute
IHI is an independent Tanzanian-led non-profit, district-based health research and resource organisation. It is one of the organisations best positioned in Tanzania to improve the health system by enhancing innovative research and application.
The current situation
The crucial challenge for Tanzania's healthcare system is to improve access to and quality of essential healthcare and prevention. Training organisations suffer from chronic staff shortages, which limit the country's capacity to train the required number of professionals and researchers.
The system's capacity can be increased by 65%, by improving the productivity of individual healthcare workers and the healthcare system. This can be achieved through innovative interventions and service delivery models.
It is important that Tanzania develops its capacity to understand how complex health programmes are best implemented and its capacity to evaluate the system's performance and synthesise collected data.
Finally, more public health leaders with sufficient data skills are needed to translate research into policy.