FRONTIERS PROJECT
Transferring Ghana's System of Evidence-based Health Program Development: Program for an Initial Exchange with Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso

FRONTIERS and the Navrongo Health Research Centre organized a week-long forum for exchanging understanding about the Navrongo project (see "Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project") in northern Ghana. The Navrongo project, a long-term, multiphase study, identified ways of deploying community health nurses and mobilizing community leadership to increase contraceptive use and improve maternal and child health. In May 2005, health officials from Sierra Leone and the Burkina Faso Ministry of Health attended the forum, along with representatives from donor and international agencies, and discussed ways of applying lessons from the Navrongo study to their health care systems. Participants formed a working group dedicated to developing, testing, and sharing approaches for improving community health among and beyond the three countries.

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Location

Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Sierra Leone

Duration

May 2005–July 2005

Population Council researcher

James Phillips

Non-Council collaborator

Navrongo Health Research Centre

Donor

US Agency for International Development

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type. 

2005
Ghana Health Service and Navrongo Health Research Centre. "Transferring Ghana's system of evidence-based health program development: Program for an initial exchange with Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 385 KB)

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Related Project

• Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project

See Also

• Ghana
• Burkina Faso
• Large-scale Experimental Health Programs
• FRONTIERS Sub-Saharan Africa
• FRONTIERS Ghana
• FRONTIERS Burkina Faso
• FRONTIERS Technical Assistance/Institution Building

Offsite Link

• Navrongo Health Research Centre

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