The Accelerator is working in partnership with the University Gamal Abdel Nasser of Conakry and the Centre National de Formation et de Recherche en Santé Rurale de Maferinyah (Maferinyah Center for Training and Research in Rural Health), based in Guinea, for the design and implementation of this activity. The activity is designed with a decision space approach, which refers to careful mapping of decisional authority and capacity at decentralized levels of government and the health system. In close collaboration with USAID, and the Directorate of Community Health in the MoH in Guinea, the Accelerator will carry out this implementation research study in four of the seven regions of Guinea, conducting a sequenced data collection, consisting of a quantitative survey followed by qualitative in-depth interviews and focus group discussions.
Data collection for this activity will begin the Summer 2021. The results and recommendations that emerge from this implementation research, which are projected to be finalized and disseminated in Fall 2021, will be used to:
- Inform decision-makers in the health sector and beyond on the need to readapt the program for its improved efficacy.
- Target capacity-strengthening efforts to actors at different levels of the health systems and in different implementation regions.
- Highlight bottom-up and top-down accountability issues for improving responsiveness of the community health program to communities’ needs.