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hera is committed to the right to health and development for all

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What we do

At hera, our international, multidisciplinary team is comprised of highly skilled professionals with extensive expertise in health and development research, program implementation, strategy development, monitoring, evaluation, and policy formulation.

Our core competencies encompass a wide range of areas in the health and development sector, with a special focus on monitoring and evaluation.

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Dive deeper into our most recent initiatives across the foundational pillars of Health, Development, and Human Rights, as illuminated in our latest blog entries.

Health

We focus on a wide range of health issues, from policy and economics to research and development. This includes exploring how healthcare is delivered, funded, and researched, along with the workforce that makes it all happen.

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We champion sustainable development initiatives. This means we work on issues like access to clean water and sanitation, quality education, and the effects of climate change. We also focus on fostering strong communities and effective partnerships to achieve these goals.

Development

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Human rights

hera promotes human rights by advocating for equality and social protections, particularly for vulnerable groups. This includes ensuring access to healthcare and development opportunities. Our rights-based approach emphasizes that these are not just privileges, but fundamental rights for all.

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Our clients

Since our start over thirty years ago, we have worked in more than 100 countries on more than 700 projects. hera has provided consultancy services to clients from the public and private sectors at local, national and international levels.

Some of the clients we regularly work for include:

AFD
DANIDA
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs SDC
Enabel
European Commission
FCDO
GAVI

Global Affairs Canada
Global Fund
KfW
Médécins sans Frontières
Norad
Plan International
SIDA
UNFPA

UNDP
UNICEF
UNOPS
UN Women
WFP
the WHO
the World Bank

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Strengthening access to reproductive health commodities: hera’s evaluation of the Best Practices Grant

From 2020 to 2025, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), with funding from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), led a programme entitled “Establishing Best Practices for Government-Led Product Introductions” (referred to as the Best Practices Grant)—an ambitious £40 million initiative aimed at improving access to Reproductive Health (RH) commodities across several low- and middle-income countries.

hera was contracted by CHAI to conduct the final external evaluation of the BPG, with a mandate to capture lessons, assess results, and generate insights to inform both the FCDO’s final Programme Completion Review and future investments in RH market shaping.