DRC: Renforcement Institutionnel pour des Politiques de Santé basées sur l’Evidence

Renforcement Institutionnel pour des Politiques de Santé basées sur l’Evidence en République Démocratique du Congo

The National Health Development Plan of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) aims to promote population health by providing effective health care, global, integrated and continuous with community participation. To achieve this ambitious goal, it is necessary to establish a functioning health system that can respond effectively to population health needs, and well integrated into a multi sectoral approach to fight against poverty. This requires the production of a competent health workforce, both in terms of clinical and in terms of management, the empowerment of public health institutions to provide appropriate training, and conduct relevant research and the synthesis of the available evidence to assist health authorities to make decisions and develop sound health policies.

When:

2015 - 2020

Where:

Democratic Republic of Congo

Who:

Beneficiary: School of Public Health of Lubumbashi (ESP-UNILU) – DR Congo

Implemented by: Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp (ITM) - Belgium

Co-applicants:

KSPH Kinshasa School of Public Health – DR Congo
Ecole Régionale de Santé Publique de l´Université Catholique de Bukavu - DR Congo
Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale du Congo (ex- Zaire)
Ecole Nationale de Santé Publique – Maroc

What:

The project aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of national institutions in formation and public health research to enable them to ensure adequate training, to produce quality research and to fulfil their role of strategic support to national, provincial and local health authorities. It also proposes to put in place the necessary structures and processes to be able to synthesize systematically the available evidence in public health.

This project - the acronym RIPSEC - wishes to contribute to the strengthening of the DRC's health system more equitable management of the health of the population in a perspective of universal health coverage. To do this, it aims to strengthen the expertise of the beneficiary institution, the ESP-UNILU, and its national partners in the development of health policy proposals, teaching and research programs, fruitful technical and strategic support, based on the evidence, the various health authorities of the DRC in their role of improving the health of the population of the DRC.

Objectives:

While keeping the same background, the specific objectives are the following

To develop health knowledge management capacity in the DRC through the creation of a Health Knowledge Centre (acronym "SCCC" Centre de Connaissances Santé);
To strengthen the scientific capacity of the Schools of Public Health (Ecoles de Santé Publique ESP) and the National Institute of Biomedical Research (Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale INRB) in the DRC in the domain of research and training on health systems;
To strengthen the training capacity of the Schools of Public Health by creating areas of health exhibition/training for universal coverage.

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Supporting Public Health Institutes Programme - SPHIP

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