Health Partners Ghana (HPG)
Health Partners Ghana (HPG) is a private consultancy based in Accra. It was founded in 2000 to facilitate the development and provision of high quality and efficient health and social services.
HPG has more than 50 consultants and associates, including managing director Dr Kwame Adogboba and Dr Nana Enyimayew. Kwame was instrumental in the development of the Peer and Participatory Rapid Health Appraisal for Action (PPRHAA) methodology, which HPG has put into practice in Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania.
HPG's expertise includes:
- health systems and human resources development
- prevention and control of communicable diseases including HIV/AIDS
- development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financing and costing of health programmes
- promotion of community participation in health.
HPG has worked with organisations which include: the Pfizer Foundation; the Christian Health Associations of Ghana (CHAG) and of Nigeria (CHAN) (see Institutional strengthening of the Christian Health Association of Nigeria); bilateral and multilateral partners (including the UK Department for International Development, the World Health Organisation, USAID and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ministries of health and research institutes).
In Uganda Health Partners Ghana was involved in the review of partnership funding for the Uganda Health Sector Support Programme I. In 2007 it was contracted to provide the end-of-project documentation of the EU-funded Development of Human Resources for Health project.
In Sierra Leone Health Partners Ghana was contracted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to assess the health sector (2006-2007), and has developed proposals to support certain districts.