Advancing Partners & Communities

Putting Communities First: The Legacy of USAID's APC Project

December 2019

Video

Watch the Advancing Partners & Communities (APC's) compilation video on our work over the past seven years (2012-2019) in community health.

Can Communities Manage and Finance Basic Health Facility Maintenance?

December 2019

Brief

APC developed a pilot program focused on community-led health facility maintenance and preventive maintenance in Sierra Leone following our post-Ebola efforts. The program was called Sustaining Health Facility Improvements (SHFI) program and was active in 70 communities in three rural districts (Bombali, Port Loko, and Tonkolili). Learn more about the programs results and recommendations.

Reaching Key Populations and Improving HIV Services: Country Program in Review- Dominican Republic

December 2019

Report

From 2014 through 2019, APC worked in the Dominican Republic to improve access, delivery, and quality of HIV prevention, care, and treatment services for key populations and priority populations.

Final Report: Botswana

December 2019

Report

From October 2015 to April 2019, the USAID mission in Botswana funded the APC project. The aim of the project was to ensure that communities measurably contribute to achieving the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets. Read more about what the project accomplished over the last four years.

Putting Communities First: The Legacy of USAID's APC Project

December 19, 2019

Webinar

Watch the recording from APCs farewell webinar highlighting the project's critical work and legacy in community health in more than 40 countries over the past seven years (2012–2019).

Population, Health, and Environment Story Map

November 2019

Website

Learn more about the PHE work done by APC grantee, Hen Mpoano, in the Western region of Ghana. The project aimed to create awareness in PHE approaches to show the benefits of improved health and environment outcomes as well as strengthening community-based distribution systems for contraceptives and much more.

APC Uganda Activity Final Report

November 2019

Report

The goal of APC in Uganda over the past five years was to reduce mistimed and unwanted pregnancies among teenagers and women of low parity and contribute to a reduction in total fertility rate. Learn more about the work and the results accomplished over this time period.

Community Health Matters on the Journey to Self-Reliance

September 30, 2019

Event

Since 2012, the USAID-funded Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) project has worked in over 40 countries to improve community health systems and build the capacity of local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to provide basic health services, expand access to voluntary family planning, and connect people to health facilities.

Final Report: APC Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project

September 2019

Report

From September 2013 to September 2019, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. implemented the USAID-funded APC Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project. The project design included innovative, evidence-based, and cost-effective solutions, tailored to meet the needs of populations at risk of HIV in Guyana, in the contexts where programs are implemented, and where individuals reside.

Health Facilities In Ethiopia Connect To A World Of Resources

Hawas Health Center in Adama Town, Ethiopia, is bustling with activity as health workers prepare for the morning staff meeting. Negash Ali, head of the health center, meets with all case team members to discuss their daily plans before the center opens. With approximately 200 patients attending the clinic each day, Hawas is one of the area’s busiest facilities.

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Photos of doctors and medical workers in three different photos from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

Building Resilient Health Systems in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone

Watch captivating videos and read about the work APC is doing in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to strengthen the health system and give hope to Ebola survivors.

Our Mission

Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) advances and supports community programs that seek to improve the overall health of communities and achieve other health-related impacts, especially in relationship to family planning.

Youth Dashboard

Interactive data dashboard on youth sexual and reproductive health in Asia and the Middle East.

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Community Health
Systems Catalog

A snapshot of community health systems in different countries.

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APC Grants & Grantees

Strengthening NGOs through APC's grant mechanism and capacity building assistance.

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Our Impact

APC works to advance and support community programs that seek to improve the overall health of communities, especially in relationship to family planning (FP). Through global technical leadership and collaboration, APC’s goal is to increase support for and commitment to community-based family planning in USAID priority countries. APC aims to increase access to quality FP services, expand the contraceptive method mix, and improve upon organizations’ capability to manage USAID funds and implement high quality and innovative community-based health programs.

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Developing and Strengthening the Disability and Rehabilitation Sector in Laos: Training Handbooks

December 2019 | Training Curriculum

The APC Laos TEAM offered trainings on Curriculum Development, Psychosocial Support, Training of Trainers (ToT), Project Cycle Management (PCM), and Gender Inclusion to all sub-recipients. These trainings are participatory, reflective and allow as much time as possible for ‘learning by doing’ and practical application of skills and knowledge. The participant handbooks below were used in eight trainings for TEAM sub-recipients.

Developing and Strengthening the Disability and Rehabilitation Sector in Laos

December 2019 | Assessment Tool

This Organizational Assessment template was used by the APC Laos TEAM for all applicants for TEAM funding to look at capacity in grants management, financial management, human resources, activity implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.

Putting Communities First: The Legacy of USAID's APC Project

December 2019 | Video

Watch the Advancing Partners & Communities (APC's) compilation video on our work over the past seven years (2012-2019) in community health.

Can Communities Manage and Finance Basic Health Facility Maintenance?

December 2019 | Brief

APC developed a pilot program focused on community-led health facility maintenance and preventive maintenance in Sierra Leone following our post-Ebola efforts.

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Latest News

December 19, 2019

Webinar - Putting Communities First: The Legacy of USAID's APC Project

Watch the recording from APCs farewell webinar highlighting the project's critical work and legacy in community health in more than 40 countries over the past seven years (2012–2019).

September 30, 2019

Healthy Families Thrive

July 24, 2019

Webinar: Practical Tools to Help You Bring Family Planning to Communities

View the recording of the webinar put on by APC grantee Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH) that talks about practical tools to inform communities in language they can understand of the variety of choices they have to time and space pregnancies. The webinar explored how you can use these tools in your community-based programs or develop your own for the areas where you work. They also looked at how to develop, test, and translate tools that work for communities, and explored an example of a training curriculum developed for Islamic leaders. These lessons are applicable not just for family planning, but for all community-based programs.