Key Steps Forward Expanding in Burkina Faso, Rwanda and Ethiopia On August 26, the Burkina Faso Ministry of Health (MOH) and Living Goods officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding We signed an MOU (MOU) to provide approximately six with the Burkina months of technical assistance to make Faso MOH providing Burkina Faso’s National Community Health Strategy implementation-ready. technical assistance to make the country’s As part of our support, Living Goods will National Community provide recommendations on how to operationalize, finance, and ultimately Health Strategy Government Partners Learn from Our scale a digital health solution; a supportive implementation-ready. supervision structure; and a performance- Experiences in Kenya based incentive model for Burkina Faso’s 17,000+ CHWs. We are currently in the process of recruiting two consultants focused on In late October, Living Goods hosted the Smart Health app enables supervisors performance management and digital health who will be based at the MOH to support Rwanda and Burkina Faso Ministries to monitor CHW performance in this initial phase of work, which we expect to begin in January 2020. At the end of this of Health in Kenya for an exciting real-time and identify areas for initial phase of support, Living Goods and the MOH will reassess the opportunity week of discussions, presentations and improvement. They also visited Living for a longer-term partnership, through which Living Goods could provide support for field visits to learn more about national Goods’ Suneka branch, where the the roll-out of these recommendations. We are excited by this opportunity’s potential community health systems and digital delegation had the chance to see the for impact and the Burkina Faso government’s commitment to professionalizing its health as an enabler for high-impact CHWs we support in action, conducting community health program and achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). community health systems. sick child assessments and providing In addition, conversations are progressing well with the Rwandan MOH on a family planning counseling. The delegation engaged with multiple draft concept note and MOU that would involve supporting the digitization of their Kenya MOH officials, including Dr. This was a unique opportunity for community health program. The MOU has already been submitted and we expect it will Salim Hussein, Head of the Kenya MOH’s Living Goods to simultaneously be signed in the coming weeks. Department of Primary Health Care, host two governments and facilitate Finally, the opportunity with Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) has and Dr. Richard Onkware, Kisii County learnings not only from our Kenya progressed and they have expressed interest in us supporting them to design and test Director of Health, Public Health and operations, but from one another. We a tech-enabled performance management system for their health extension program Sanitation, to learn more about their heard from the Burkina delegation that (HEP). Living Goods is in advanced discussions with PSI Ethiopia to partner closely experiences developing and managing this visit opened their eyes to the scope with them on this work to design and test a tech-enabled performance management their community health programs, of what is possible for CHWs through system and performance-based incentives for the HEP at the request of the FMOH. Over and how Living Goods is supporting digital health, while the importance the past four years, PSI has been working in partnership with the FMOH on reproductive community health at both the national of developing a legal framework and health and now wants to broaden their support to integrate this work into the wider and county levels. supportive laws to enable community HEP. As a result, partnering with Living Goods would be synergistic. This is an exciting health was a key takeaway for the The week also included an immersive site opportunity for Living Goods to demonstrate impact through the provision of technical Rwanda delegation. visit to Nyamache Hospital, where the assistance to government at a high-level, and through working with an established delegation learned how Living Goods’ in-country partner. Above: During a tech demonstration, Maxime Corbe Ngarambe, a Rwandan CHW participating in the Living Goods Q3 2019 | page 6 delegation, explores how the Smart Health app works with the help of a Living Goods staff.