Development Assistance

Team members with Tongan counterparts in our <br>Tonga Health Sector Planning and Management Project

Team members with Tongan counterparts in our
Tonga Health Sector Planning and Management Project

AusHealth primarily provides capacity development, technical advice and project management to health-related, donor agencies and governments in low to middle income countries.

AusHealth's development assistance projects aim to facilitate partner governments and in-country agencies to develop and deliver services and information that enables local populations to improve their health status and quality of life.

AusHealth's development assistance work focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on projects in the areas of:

Health system strengthening at national, provincial and local levels of health systems. Such projects may involve:

o Health system governance reform
o Health policy development
o Health planning of services and facilities
o Health finance
o Human resource development and management, including clinical and non-clinical leadership, development planning, implementation and monitoring of HR activities
o Health service rationalization
o Treatment protocol standardisation
o Licensing and accreditation standards
o Establishment of hospital boards
o Service delivery
o Health information management
o Establishment of management and operational policies and procedures

Public Private Partnership, including establishment of Family Group Practices, contracting out non-medical and non-core medical services, leasing health facilities and equipment, and co-location of public health services with private health providers.

Public health, including infectious disease control, Avian Influenza preparedness, HIV/AIDS prevention and care, and health promotion.

Community and rural health, including maternal and child health, health service demand and utilisation, community and rural health programs.

Over the past 10 years, AusHealth has implemented more than 55 development assistance projects in over 25 countries in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa (see Projects). AusHealth works closely with governments, international aid donors, multinational development banks, United Nations agencies, local people, consultants, health professionals, and other partners such as national and international NGOs, academic institutions and managing contractor companies.

AusHealth has delivered development assistance projects through a number of mechanisms that include:

Management of large-scale, multi-year programs

Project design, monitoring and evaluation

Institutional strengthening

Provision of training

Liaison and linkages between Australian institutions, particularly NSW Health departments and its various affiliated organisations, and partner agencies in developing countries

Provision of specialist technical advice to donors, governments and other stakeholders in developing countries with the aim of utilizing aid resources effectively and efficiently

Social research

Formal twinning arrangement between related institutions

AusHealth's access to a global network of individuals and organisations as well as the NSW health system allows AusHealth to effectively and successfully deliver and manage health-related projects worldwide. Specifically, as AusHealth is a NSW government-owned enterprise, we are able to draw on the high level technical, managerial and administrative resources of the entire New South Wales state health service. AusHealth also draws on considerable in-house expertise in research, management, planning and delivery of health services in developing countries. In addition, AusHealth has access to an extensive database of health professionals and consultants with extensive experience in international development.

Contact Details

Name: David Cawthorn

Phone: +61 3 6229 2474

Fax: +61 3 6229 8017

Email: david.cawthorn@aushealth.net.au

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