The COVID-19 pandemic has presented urgent challenges to Columbia’s already overburdened health system. The Abt-led, USAID-funded LHSS Project supports the Ministry of Health to create rapid response teams that help local health officials to contain COVID-19’s spread and boost awareness, especially among migrants and other marginalized or isolated groups.
Abt is helping agencies such as EPA, USAID, and OSHA develop the strategies needed to help adapt to the impacts of climate change and avoid its most harmful consequences. Our tool enables decisionmakers to design data-based actions to address the impacts of climate change on health, agriculture, and more.
Post-harvest losses, variable produce quality, and short shelf life have been chronic problems for smallholder farmers in warm climates. But recently the Feed the Future Egypt Rural Agribusiness Strengthening Project, a USAID-funded project implemented by Abt, introduced low-cost, cold chain technology that could solve these problems while also creating jobs and increasing smallholder farmers’ incomes.
A priority for Tanzania is to develop an efficient, sustainable approach to procure, pay for, and deliver health commodities. To do so, Abt is working with USAID to strengthen Tanzania’s health system, including its supply chain.
#ICYMI, as the Abt-led SHOPS Plus project comes to a close, the project will host a four-part series of webinars reflecting on global investments and field programs with USAID Missions. It isn’t too late to still register for events in this series!
The primary goal of USAID’s Healthy Mother Healthy Baby (HMHB) Activity in Tajikistan is to improve the nutritional status of mothers and children under two and reduce their morbidity and mortality rates. To achieve this, HMHB is working with local partners to scale up quality health and nutrition services and build up technical capacity through an innovative approach to social and behavior change.
Impact investing—private capital invested to achieve social outcomes alongside financial returns—can be a powerful tool to complement traditional philanthropy. Private-sector health expert April Warren sat down with impact investing specialists James Soukamneuth and Prachi Maheshwari to discuss how blended finance structures can be used to mobilize private capital in frontier markets.
Digital technology has expanded access to financial products and services for people who do not have bank accounts, resulting in well-documented social and economic gains. However, evidence of whether digital financial services (DFS) can make it easier for people to access health care is fragmented. Emily Mangone discusses the findings of the LHSS Project’s global evidence review, which explored why, how, and under what circumstances emerging DFS models can contribute to universal health coverage.
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