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Conducting assessments and baselines following internationally
accepted methodologies and standards.
District health profiling of all districts of Punjab and various districts of Pakistan
Health Facility Assessment(HFA) of primary and secondary healthcare facilities
Coverage Evaluation Survey of EPI on a national level
Health services benchmarking
Assessment of preventive programs
Capacity development and training needs assessment
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Contribution towards planning and development of national and provincial health policies
in pakistan
Developed Healthplan®, a health planning toolkit: software and manual
Development and preparation of planning documents for
Community Midwife Program
National Malaria Control Plan
National Plan of Action for Children
National Newborn Care Program
Strategic Plan and Annual Health Plans for Districts
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Significant experience of strengthening health systems at all levels especially at the district,
contributing to key elements of HSS which includes
Policy
Financing
Human Resources
Supply System
Technology and Infrastructure
Service management
Information and monitoring systems
The major areas of work include:
Baseline assessments like HFA and district Decision Space Analysis (DSA)
Designing interventions
Supporting implementation of interventions
Developing training packages and imparting trainings on use of information, target setting,
supportive supervision, budgeting, financial management and logistics
Computer software's to assist district management in health planning and budgeting
Support in monitoring and evaluation for performance assessment
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Delivery of primary health care and preventive health service to high risk groups through trained and dedicated staff.
HIV/AIDS program for vulnerable groups (Female Sex workers and Men having sex with Men)
TB DOTS Public Private Mix
Sehat Sahulat Card program-a voucher scheme for provision of quality MNCH services for below poverty line pregnant
females
School Health and Screening Program (SHSP)
Sehat Sahulat Clinic Basic+ (Mobile Health Clinic)
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Contech has provided a platform to experts interested in public health practice enabling them to provide their services at appropriate levels. It has created a pool of experts on regular basis for effective TA provision to both public and private sectors.
key partner in Technical Assistance Management Agency (TAMA)
Provided more than 5,000 person days of TA to preventive programs at national and provincial levels in Pakistan
TA needs assessment, procurement and backstopping for more than 10,000 man days for Government
setups(Ministries, PDSSP, PRMP) and development partners (ADB, UNICEF, WB)
Project Preparatory Technical Assistance to Centre for Global Development, USA, on Pay for Performance (P4P)
Some of the assignments under PDSSP include:
Development of Minimum Service Delivery Standards (MSDS)
Development of Standards Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Standards Medical Protocols (SMPs)
for primary and secondary health care
Strengthening Referral System
Improving Medico Legal System in Punjab
Development of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) models for Punjab
Development of Job Description for Medics and Paramedics
Restructuring of Punjab Health Foundation
Some of the assignments under TAMA include:
Review of incentives for Medical Officers and Woman Medical Officers at primary and secondary healthcare facilities of
Punjab
Strengthening Capacity for Health Sector Planning for Punjab
Development of Deployment Guidelines for Community Midwives for National MNCH Program through Technical Resource
Facility (TRF)
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Use of information and enhancing core competencies for management functions has been a special focus of capacity building
initiatives conducted by Contech.
Contech has successfully implemented capacity building programs for senior level decision makers at national, provincial and district level. The experience includes working not only with health officials but district and provincial level managers, administrators, elected representatives working across
other sectors. Areas for capacity building of public sector health managers in major management functions like
Strategic and Annual Operational Planning
Financial Management
Logistic Management
Supportive Supervision
Evidence Based Decision Making
District Health Information System (DHIS)
Contech has also been working with lower echelons of health system professionals building their capacities
not only through didactic training but providing them with an environment of experiential learning and exposure to hands on practice
Grass root level trainings
a. Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs)
b. Teachers
c. Lady Health Workers (LHWs)
d. General Practitioners (GPs)
Trained 107 Community Citizen Boards in three towns of District Lahore in Project Cycle management and assisted them in
preparing project proposals (114 proposals were prepared)
Under Optimal Birth Spacing Initiative (OBSI)
Training of 44 master trainers, 495 district trainers and 4,218 health care providers (LHWs) at
first level care facility (FLCF).
A total of 183 training events at 366 facilities in 10 districts of the 4 provinces of Pakistan were held
Capacity building, hands on support to district government for developing and implementing three year rolling plan in
accordance with
MSDS in 36 districts of Punjab
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Contech develops policies and plans for financing requirements of various public and private health initiatives and has been contributing in
assessing the impact of financing mechanisms on financial viability of health programs
Introduction of innovative tools for improvements of cost reduction and output expansion methods
Project costing and budgeting
Malaria, EPI, CMP, Nutrition, DHIS, MSDS
Financial reviews
Financial flow system
Health expenditure review
Fiduciary risk assessment
Budgetary reforms assistance
Assistance to districts
Medium term budgetary frame work (P&D, Finance & Health)
Punjab Millellium Development Goals Program (project preparatory technical assistance)
Financial Decision Space Analysis
Monitoring of conditional grants to the districts for health sector
Support to department of health in establishing financial management cell
Continuous support to health sector reform program on health care financing
Developed FinSoft® which is a budgeting and financial management software
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Instituting health operations research in key areas is pivotal for improving health systems and services. The main aim is to
design initiatives which can serve as a model for upscaling
Some initiatives include :
Social marketing of Safe Kit® (Disposable clean delivery kit)
Emergency transport services to rural community (Community Emergency Ambulance Services)
Sehat Sahulat Clinic Basic+
(Mobile health clinic)
Sehat Sahulat Card Program
(Health voucher scheme)
School Health and Screening Program (SHSP)
Tawana Ghar
(Community nutrition and awareness program)
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