Capacity building, Department of Health - South Africa
In South Africa, Health Partners International provided public health and financial management support for the design of a Belgian Technical Cooperation project with the country’s Department of Health.
The design team worked with stakeholders within the department to assess capacity-building needs in the health sector, in areas of:
- health management
- primary health care
- service delivery at district level
- quality assurance
- management of re-emerging diseases such as cholera and malaria.
The priority capacity-building needs of four of the poorest provinces in the country (Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Kwazulu Natal) were highlighted.
We made recommendations to the Belgian Government on the areas that could be supported by the Belgian Technical Cooperation.