With funding from Belgian development agency Enabel, Jhpiego is implementing a three-year project targeting seven health districts. The project’s objective is to ensure accessible, evidence-based, improved and innovative maternal, neonatal, child, sexual and reproductive health services in these districts. In addition, the project seeks to increase citizens’ participation and engagement in development in alignment with the current national Health Sector Strategic Plan 4.

With funding from the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) through a Catalytic Opportunity Fund grant, Jhpiego is working to scale up hormonal IUD services in Rwanda. This fund is administered by CHAI and managed by the Hormonal IUD Access Group with the goal of supporting catalytic work to drive scale-up of hormonal IUDs in focus countries. In Rwanda, Jhpiego is developing health care provider skills and knowledge related to hormonal IUD services during pre-service education to prepare future nurses and midwives as critical providers of family planning services in Rwanda. Jhpiego is also ensuring that nurses and midwives who are currently undergoing pre-service education acquire competencies to expand counseling and service provision to include hormonal IUD as they complete their classroom and skills-based clinical training.

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Jhpiego is conducting a health facility survey in Rwanda with the goal of improving malaria case management. In partnership with the Malaria and Other Parasitic Diseases Division of the Government of Rwanda, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Jhpiego is designing and implementing the study, which will measure progress made in outpatient malaria case management against national malaria treatment guidelines. Data from this study will benefit Rwanda’s national malaria control program by: informing the development of malaria case management training and supervision strategies; providing data on which antimalarial and rapid diagnostic tests are ideal for the country; and characterizing the degree to which routine health facility data reflect the true malaria burden.

Jhpiego is providing technical assistance to support event-based surveillance in Rwanda to carry out a range of complex epidemiologic and surveillance activities associated with event-based surveillance systems and alert and response operations at Rwanda Biomedical Center. This work is funded by the CDC Foundation.