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Planning, Organisation and Management

HERA performs institutional analysis with a view to propose organisational changes for improved efficiency and organisational performance. In addition, HERA has experience of supporting institutions to promote institutional change, developing medium to long-term strategic plans and managing health and development systems.

Examples include:

Institutional analysis performed by HERA, with a view to supporting institutional change

Burkina Faso: Long-term support to the Public Health School at Ouagadougou in the development of a long-term strategic plan for institutional change, on behalf of Danida (1992-93);
Belgium: Institutional analysis of the Belgian association against Cancer and development of a medium-term operational plan for change (1995); institutional analysis of the Organisation for TB prevention (1996);
EC: Institutional analysis of the Aids Task Force in the context of a global evaluation of the EC HIV/AIDS programme (1996). Options for institutional reform for the AIDS Task Force;
Namibia: Change review of the institutional reforms, on behalf of the EC (1998-99).
Belgium: Institutional and organisational analysis of hospital service provision in the province of Luxemburg, with the development in a global health plan, on behalf of EIB (2003-2004);
Botswana: Organisational review of the Ministry of Health, which resulted in a plan for change of the organisation (2002);
Lesotho, Madagascar, Rwanda: Institutional and organisational analysis of the central medical stores (in the context of a broad pharmaceutical sector review), with proposals for change that have been or are being implemented;
Tanzania: Review of Roles and Functions of the Pharmaceutical Supplies Unit and Recommendations on how PSU should be streamlined to improve its Operations (2008)
Burkina Faso: Support to Centre Muraz - developing a strategic institutional development and business plan (2010)
Rwanda: Support to reviewing the local dynamics and institutional requirements for developing an urban strategic health plan in the City of Kigali (2011)

Support to managing health and development

Mongolia: training of senior MOH staff in health sector reform concepts (1997);
Egypt: Designing and testing of a performance based contracting system for the provision of family health services in the context of the Egypt Health Sector Reform Project (2000);
Kenya, Mali, Rwanda, Swaziland, Uganda, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe: support to developing strategic development or operational health or pharmaceutical plans, on behalf of different donors (BTC, DRC, EC, WB,...);
Papua New Guinea: supporting the MOH in developing tools, mechanisms and procedures for initiating SWAp (2003);
Palestine: supporting MOH to develop planning and management capacity, on behalf of EC (2004-2005);
St. Lucia: support to MOH in developing health sector reform strategies and medium term health strategic plan (2005);
Zimbabwe: long-term support to MOH in managing and financing health services (2005-2006).
Egypt: supporting the MOH and the Swiss Red Cross in strengthening financial sustainability of the National Blood system (2006-2007);
Lesotho: Capacity building of the NDSO (central medical stores), on behalf of the WB (2006-2007);