The goal of the Grants Solicitation and Management Program (GSM) is to provide health grants management services to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau of Global Health and USAID Missions around the world. GSM streamlines health grants process in health sectors including family planning, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and control of infectious diseases, as well as supporting community-based service delivery, training, and related activities. Precision Development Xperts was funded under the GSM leader award from 2004-2012.
News
Read below for APC-related news, partner announcements, and information on new or existing RFAs.
2012
May 21, 2012 | Article
This news article announces COIN’s project on prevention, treatment, and advocacy for HIV/AIDS. The project aims to give priority to educational tactics to reduce risk behaviors related to drug use and increase protection and information services for prevention among vulnerable populations.
February 06, 2012 | Article
Maternal mortality is high and modern contraceptive use is declining in Ghana even as the unmet need for family planning has increased. The DKT Ghana initiative is a vital step in addressing these major health concerns. In a unique and innovative collaboration, funding for the Ghana contraceptive distribution effort was provided by DKT’s program in Indonesia. The Indonesia program now generates substantial revenue and is able to use some of these to support the Ghana initiative.
2011
December 25, 2011 | Article
This news article outlines how Lori Pappas, the founder and executive director of GTLI, started the organization to work closely with indigenous communities helping them adapt to social, economic and climate change variability, while retaining their traditional cultural values.
December 05, 2011 | Blog
This blog tells the story of the author’s visit to Ghana where he saw women from HKN using the private sector to deliver health and hygiene to rural areas often overlooked by traditional global health programs.
November 30, 2011 | Article
This news article reports on the challenges that Papua New Guinea is facing combating maternal mortality. Though some progress has been made, inaccessible and ill-equipped health centers, early pregnancies, poor care, and ineffective communication are among the reasons health and aid workers cite for the still-high level of maternal deaths.
August 29, 2011 | Article
ADRA Nepal is committed to constant improvement and believes in the importance of taking time to evaluate its current position and its goals for the future. The strategic planning workshop focused on re-evaluating and reformulating ADRA Nepal’s Vision Statement, Extended Vision, Strategic Objectives and Strategic Map for 2012-2014.
August 29, 2011 | Blog
This blog post describes the author’s WellShare internship in Uganda working on HIV and Child Spacing programs.
August 15, 2011 | Article
With the assistance of ADRA UK funding through the European Union (EU), the "Action for Social Inclusion of Children Affected by Armed Conflict in Nepal" (ASIC) project is implemented by ADRA Nepal in partnership with the Association for Social Transformation and Humanitarian Assistance (ASTHA) in the Mid-Western districts of Rukum, Rolpa, Salyan, and Surkhet. In August 2011, a delegation from the European Commission of Nepal monitored project activities in the target district of Surkhet.
August 09, 2011 | Article
The practice of paying people to attend trainings is common in the developing world. Trainers believe that paying "per diems" builds attendance and improves outcomes. But according to Lori Pappas, GTLI founder, the practice of paying per diems achieves exactly the opposite effect.
May 01, 2011 | Article
This journal article details the writer’s trip to the Philippines to see RBI’s work firsthand.
2010
November 29, 2010 | Blog
In November 2010, ADOPLAFAM, with 24 years of work on behalf of the most vulnerable sectors of the population, selected a new board. At their swearing in, they pledged to continue supporting programs developed for the poorest and most excluded from society.
January 12, 2010 | Article
In December 2009, ADRA completed a five-year family planning project that benefited nearly 500,000 men and women in mountainous eastern Nepal.
2009
December 01, 2009 | Article
This article describes CEPROSH’s contribution to the World AIDS Day celebration in Puerto Plata.
December 01, 2009 | Article
This article describes CEPROSH’s contribution to the World AIDS Day celebration in Puerto Plata.
July 14, 2009 | Article
In the remote, conflict-ridden communities of Western Nepal, ADRA initiated a project to improve access to and delivery of reproductive health and basic public health services, providing mobile reproductive health camps and other support services for more than 21,000 people in Kalikot district (Mid-Western Region) and Accham (Far-Western Region).
March 17, 2009 | Article
This news article discusses how Artistes in Direct Support will register as an NGO in order to ensure transparency with funding from USAID.
January 11, 2009 | Success Story
This success story explains how ABBYY’s FineReader product was able to help RBI convert textbooks to braille for blind students.
| General News
This Christian Connections in International Health (CCIH) list of news items showcases recent articles about CCIH.
| Event
This event list informs readers about upcoming events and training at CCIH.
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