Improved Community Health Care Project Liberia (ICH-Africare)

Overview

Improved Community Health Care Project Liberia (ICH-Africare) was a five-year project funded by USAID and Africare. Led by Africare, ICH aimed to improve the availability, quality, and reach of primary health care (PHC) and family planning services. CCP worked with local NGOs to design mass media and community-based, behavior change communication activities promoting modern health care and family planning.

Accomplishments

• Mobilized target communities to identify, discuss, and take actions to address community health problems and other economic, social, political and post-conflict issues that impact their daily lives.

• Collaborated with the MOHSW to offer Home Base Life Saving Skill (HBLLS) training to communities and families in ICH target areas.

• Collaborated with the MOHSW to pilot a Community Based Service Providers Program (CBSP), standardizing the delivery of health services at the community level.

• Assisted in building capacity of the Health Promotion Division in the MOHSW.

• Trained voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) counselors to establish VCT centers in clinics.

• Distributed over 10,000 insect-treated bed nets in ICH communities.

• Developed Health is Our Wealth, a 26-episode, 30-minute serial radio magazine program addressing malaria, safe motherhood, immunization and family planning which was aired on 4 radio stations.