Financing Alliance for Health

Project- africa frontline firstaff is a collaborative initiative between the Financing Alliance for Health, community Health impact coalition, last mile Health, and the community Health acceleration partnership under the championship of h.e. Ellen johnson sirleaf that will scale and strengthen integrated and sustainable community Health service delivery across 10 sub saharan african countries by 2030.through unique partnerships among governments, donors, implementers, and technical allies, aff will support the building of a high-functioning, resilient and country-led workforce of 200,000 community Health workers, who will provide 100 million people with home-based Health: reducing sickness and saving lives, preventing future pandemics, accelerating economic recovery and providing dignified work for women.accomplishments:1-2022 country engagement we continued supporting governments in kenya, zambia and togo as they move towards streamlining and scaling their chw programs. Like many other african governments, these governments face significant barriers, including building political prioritization, developing policies, mapping resources, establishing Financing strategies to mobilize resources, and scaling robust, sustainable primary healthcare systems. We also continued to support these governments to leverage the existing community Health funds better and mobilize new funding for solid and effective Health systems. In 2022, fah expanded to three more sub-national governments in kenya; nakuru, nairobi and nyeri, and continued to support laikipia, tharaka nithi and makueni, bringing our total engagement of sub-national governments in kenya to six.2-at the sidelines of cphia 2022, aff and acdc signed a memorandum of understanding formalizing a partnership that will expand the professional community Health workforce across africa. Together with africa cdc, the african union's department of Health, and the african union covid-19 commission, we hope to advance the african union's 2 million community Health worker initiative. Our joint efforts will hopefully catalyze a new level of investment in community Health, secure and sustain political commitments to community Health across african union member states, and bolster africa cdc's role supporting member states to build high-quality community Health systems at the national level.