Benin

Office Staff

  • Jean AFFO, Country Director
  • Nadège HOUETOHOSSOU, Operations and Finance Manager
  • Florence DJIHOUN, Family Planning Specialist
  • Odilon HOUNYO, M&E Advisor
  • Alexis ZANNOU, M&E Assistant
  • Isaie APKA, Driver

Contact Information

Address: Maison Jacques Christophe Boko, 804 Sikecodji, Cotonou, Benin

Phone: +229-95 95 31 83

Office Objectives

  1. Strengthen capacity of USAID's PIHI (high impact intervention) NGOs to implement a high quality community-based package of health services, including family planning
  2. Facilitate shared learning and build awareness of best practices in PIHI
  3. Work with partners and the MOH to introduce Sayana Press (innovative contraceptive injectable) to community programs in Benin
  4. Finalize community based family planning (CBFP) /community based access to injectables pilot evaluation and disseminate results
  5. Work with MOH to engage stakeholders in CBFP policy change

Primary Activities

APC / Benin provides technical assistance to USAID / Benin and technical support to the Ministry of Health to implement high-impact interventions at the community level. This technical assistance includes capacity building of local NGOs in monitoring and evaluation, as well as supervising, documenting, and reporting on community activities. APC is leading the national rollout of the innovative contraceptive injectable Sayana Press, starting in USAID-funded health zones.

Health Areas

  • Community Health
  • Family Planning
  • Urban Health
  • Integrated Management of Childhood Illness at Community level (malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia)
  • Water, Hygiene and Sanitation

Watch New Videos - October 2018


While Benin has made some progress in infant and neonatal mortality in recent years, the maternal mortality rate remains high at an estimated 405 deaths per 100,000 live births, almost double the global average. Since 2013, the USAID-funded Advancing Partners & Communities Project (APC) has been working with local NGOs in Benin to implement a community-based package of health care services to address infant, maternal, and neonatal mortality in the country. The package includes family planning interventions, which enable women and families to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health. This video shows how APC and Ministry of Health are working to bring healthcare to the doorstep of the communities.

Photos from Benin


Benin-Specific Resources

Photo Journal: Ameliorer la santé communautaire au Bénin
May 2019 | Photo Gallery

Entre 2012 et 2018, le projet Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) financé par l’USAID, en partenariat avec le Ministère de la Santé du Bénin, a renforcé le système de santé communautaire, en particulier la planification familiale. Cette collection de photos raconte l'histoire de ce travail.

Renforcement du système de sante communautaire au Bénin
April 2019 | Infographic

Afin d'améliorer la couverture sanitaire, le gouvernement béninois a lancé un ensemble d'interventions sanitaires fondées sur des données factuelles, dénommé PIHI (paquet d'interventions à haut impact), en 2010. À compter de 2012, le projet Avancement des Partenariats et des Communautés (APC) financé par l'USAID a aidé trois organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) et le Ministère de la Santé à introduire cet ensemble de services dans dix zones sanitaires prioritaires de l'USAID par les relais communautaires (RC). Avec l'aide d'APC, les ONG ont formé des RC et ont fourni un soutien et une supervision permanents pour mettre en oeuvre le PIHI dans leurs communautés.

Strengthening Community Health Systems in Benin
April 2019 | Infographic

To improve health, the Government of Benin launched a package of evidence-based health interventions, known as PIHI (paquet d’interventions à haut impact), in 2010. APC helped three NGOs and the Ministry of Health introduce this package of services in ten USAID-priority health zones through community health workers. With APC assistance, the NGOs trained CHWs and provided ongoing support and supervision to deliver the PIHI in their communities.

Photo Journal: Improving Community Health in Benin
April 2019 | Photo Gallery

Since 2010, community health workers have provided education and services as part of the MOH’s package of basic health services and practices, known as PIHI. Critical to healthy, thriving communities, PIHI services help improve health areas related to malaria; water, sanitation, and hygiene; maternal and child health; nutrition; and family planning.

Apporter la planification familiale au niveau des communautes
March 2019 | Infographic

La Republique du Benin est confrontee a des taux eleves de mortalite maternelle, neonatale et infantile et a un foible taux d'utilisation de la contraception moderne. En 2013, le gouvernement du Benin s'est engage a ameliorer la sante reproductive et a elargir l'acces aux services.