Health & Well-being
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Access to quality health care and basic services are cornerstones of development and prosperity. For individuals, communities and society as a whole. However, reality is that those who are most vulnerable in poverty stricken countries, such as infants and children, older people, people with disabilities, and people living with HIV/AIDS , have unsufficient access to these facilities. Women in reproductive age-groups are particularly vulnerable because of risks related to pregnancy and childbirth. In many developing countries maternal mortability remains unacceptibly high.
Health and care for all
In order to increase access to health care and basic services, Cordaid supports the work of hundreds of partner organisations in about 20 developing countries in Africa and Asia. We believe that every life counts and that we have a global responsibility to reach ‘health and care for all’. In our work, we particularly aim to improve health and care systems in fragile states and in remote areas, where government health systems are lacking or do not function adequately.
Working together
Cordaid’s health and well-being programme is supported by the Dutch public, philanthropists, private foundations, and national and international institutional donors. Together with research organisations and universities we invest in empirical and action-research in developing countries. We advocate and lobby for maintaince of the necessary development funds among politicians and policy makers in the Netherlands and Europe. All in all, Cordaid collaborates worldwide with many different stakeholders active in the area of health, care and basic social services.
Cordaid supports:
• Women’s health: strengthening of sexual and reproductive health care services and the provision of objective and complete information about family planning. In our view women should be able to make informed decisions concerning their sexual and reproductive health;
• Community care and support: development of community care systems, training of community-based volunteers, especially in peripheral areas where health services are lacking and where qualified health staff is unsufficient. We also advocate and lobby to increase access to care and basic social services for marginalised groups;
• Social protection: strenghening of social protection for marginalized groups, such as cash transfer projects, selp-help groups and mobilistion of grass-root organsiations. In addition, we support lobby activities for the formulation and implementation of basic social services policies;
• Health systems in fragile states: strengthening of health care systems, particularly in fragile states by means of Performance Based Financing (PBF). We aim to increase access to quality health care, greater involvement of communities and state building through transparency and accountability.
The focal themes are:
Women’s health
Community Care
Social Protection
Health Systems in fragile states
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