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Health NGO Capacity Building Initiative

Location  Central Asia

Performance period  January 2003 - December 2005

Partner  Counterpart International

Budget  $4,360,980

Donor/Client 

Contract  176-A-00-03-00004

Counterpart has conducted 212 participatory community appraisals that have resulted in 114 grants promoting healthy communities through the implementation of disease prevention and in response to the lack of medical facilities and very poor sanitary conditions and personal hygiene. Phase II of the Health NGO Capacity Building Initiative (HNCBI) is implemented in partnership with Abt Associates and the Open Society Institute (OSI). This phase represents a shift, evolving from building the generic capacity of 18 target health NGOs in three countries of the region to providing training and targeted technical assistance, participatory monitoring and evaluation to a broader client base, e.g. NGOs, CBOs and community initiative groups in all five Central Asian countries, within the framework of the Healthy Communities small grant program in all but Turkmenistan. This shift also redirects the program’s focus to organizations working at the community level where there is greater potential for high impact activities while also placing greater emphasis on producing health-sector impacts. Counterpart’s extension strategy continues to complement, not duplicate, Abt's sector-specific assistance to health NGOs and community projects. The Health NGO Capacity Building Initiative is being implemented through 31 of the 35 Counterpart Civil Society Support Centers, with grant activities suspended in Turkmenistan due to the restrictive October 2003 Law On NGOs.

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