The Goals

Project Goal

Health Systems Strengthening for Equity (HSSE): The Power and Potential of Mid-level Providers is a four-year project, launched in 2007. The aim of the project is to support health system strengthening for equity in Africa by building an evidence base on the role of mid-level providers in maternal and newborn health and promoting greater political leadership and critical policy action on their use.

Objectives

Utilizing the extensive experience and complementary strengths of the project partners, and working closely with key stakeholders and national research institutions in the global South, this project will achieve the following four, interrelated objectives:

• Expand the evidence base in support of effective use of mid-level providers through the generation of new evidence and a critical analysis of existing evidence;
• Increase recognition and effective use of mid-level providers by national, regional, and global policy makers;
• Advocate for an enabling environment that optimizes performance of mid-level providers; and
• In partnership with African institutions, deepen local capacity to research and analyze human resource and health systems problems, develop innovative solutions, influence policymakers at local and global levels, implement sustainable new strategies; and build the capacity of northern institutions to successfully engage in and support partnerships of this kind.