Study Visit Report: Madagascar Exchange Visit to Ethiopia

Study Visit Report: Madagascar Exchange Visit to Ethiopia
Abstract: From March 26, 2023, to April 1, 2023, a delegation composed of policy makers and healthcare professionals from Madagascar visited Ethiopia as part of an exchange visit to learn about the country’s primary healthcare system (PHC) and community health program. The learning exchange visit was organized by the Data for Impact (D4I) project in close collaboration with the International Institute for Primary Health Care – Ethiopia (IPHC-E), John Snow Inc. (JSI), and its country offices in Ethiopia and Madagascar. The delegation was led by Madagascar’s Secretary General of Public Health and included the Secretary General of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, the Director General of the Ministry of the Interior and Decentralization, as well as personnel from each level of the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), representatives from The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Accessible Continuum of Care and Essential Services (ACCESS) project/Management Sciences for Health (MSH), and USAID Madagascar.

This report describes the objectives and main activities of the visit and highlights select observations and areas of interest expressed by the delegation which may be applied to strengthen Madagascar’s PHC and community health program. The report is also available in French.
Shortname: SR-23-180 D4I
Author(s): Data for Impact
Year: 2023
Language: English
Filed under: Ethiopia, madagascar, Report