1. Evidence drivers for effective partnerships
between faith groups and public sector
ACHAP 7TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The role of the faith based health services in contributing to universal health coverage in Africa
Jean Duff, Coordinator JLI F&LC
February 24, 2015
CAFOD AACC

2. Presentation Outline
• International Development Context
• World Bank; SDGs; UHC
• Opportunities for Faith Groups to strengthen
Public Sector Partnerships
• About JLI F&LC and Learning Hubs
• Recommendations

3. World Bank Consultation
with International Faith Groups, Feb 18, 2015
World Bank’s twin Goals:
• Boosting shared prosperity
• Do-ability of Ending extreme poverty ( <$1.25 per day)
by 2030
>1b or 14.5% 2014 down to <3% by 2030
24% economic growth result of better health outcomes
President Jim Kim calls for :
• Global movement around the twin goals
• Solutions big enough for the challenge
• Preferential option for the poorest of the poor
• Country level full engagement with faith community
• Evidence based partnership with FGs..what works?

4. WHO on Universal Health Coverage:
“all people obtain health services they need without financial hardship”
Health System to Achieve UHC:
Meets priority needs thru people-centered integrated care by:
1. encouraging people to stay healthy and prevent illness
2. detecting health conditions early
3. treating disease
4. helping with rehabilitation

5. International Development Trends:
framing for strengthening partnerships for health
between public sector and faith groups
• Community- based, sustainable, integrated health care
• Further gains in MCH, NCD will come from advances in prevention
• Priority on health-related attitude and behavior change
• Scaled-up evidence-based, locally adapted health solutions
• Funding favoring local partnership
• Donors’ country partnership frameworks requiring more substantial engagement of CS and Faith.
(GF WB)
• PPP/ Multi-sector alliances
• Ebola: twin necessity of faith-based health systems strengthening, and
accessing, mobilizing and equipping local faith networks
• Priority on equity and lowest income
• Emphasis on effectiveness and efficiency-- evidence & value for money

6. Opportunities for Faith Groups
to strengthen Public Sector Partnerships
• Document facilities and congregational assets,
and health outcomes
• Collaborate across denominational and faith lines to
deliver large scale capacity
• Faith-based health systems partner with faith leaders
on social and community mobilization for
prevention, emergency response
• Demonstrate outcomes for poorest of the poor
• Hold public and private partners accountable
• Make collective, evidence-based case to
governments for faith-based delivery & community
outreach

7. Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities
International collaborative knowledge management platform, collecting
and sharing evidence for faith groups’ activity and contributions
Goal : Collaboration among policy, practice and academia towards full
engagement of faith groups in community health and development
• What do policy makers and practitioners want/need to know?
• What are the evidence drivers for effective partnerships?
• What do we already know?
Data on faith groups is limited and ‘silo-ed’
• How can what we know be better communicated to policy makers and
practioners?
• Joint Learning Methodology (JLICA G. Foster)

8. JLIF&LC Steering Committee
ADRA Mark Webster
Anglican Alliance Rachel Carnegie
Christian Aid Loretta Minghella
Digni Jørn Lemvik
Episcopal Relief and
Development
Rob Radtke
IMA World Health Rick Santos
Islamic Relief
Atallah Fitzgibbon
Helen Stawski
McKinsey &
Company
John Drew
Partnership for Faith
& Development
Jean Duff
Samaritan’s Purse Chris Blackham
Tearfund
Matthew Frost
(Co-Chair)
Traidmission
Rob Kilpatrick
(Co-Chair)
UNAIDS Sally Smith
UNFPA Azza Karam
UNICEF David Ponet
University of
Cape Town/IRHAP
Jill Olivier
World Vision
International
Dan Ole Shani

9. Contribution of
faith groups to delivery
of vaccines and
immunizations
Strengthen capacity
of faith groups to care
for community and to
collect and
communicate data
5 Learning Hubs
Impact of faith groups
on promoting individual
and community
resilience
Resilience Immunization
Local faith communities
roles in prevention and
protection
Sexual and
Gender Based
Violence
Impact of faith groups
on HIV and Maternal
health, with special
attention to PMTCT and
skilled birth attendants
HIV & Maternal
Health
Capacity
Building

10. Learning Hub:
Resilience
What is the impact of faith groups in
promoting individual and community
resilience in humanitarian situations?
Anglican Alliance

11. Learning Hub:
HIV and Maternal Health
What is are the activities and
impact of faith groups on HIV
and Maternal Health?

12. Learning Hub:
Immunization
How do faith groups contribute
to the acceptance and delivery of
vaccines and immunizations?
Global Polio Eradication
Initiative

13. Learning Hub:
Sexual &
Gender-based Violence
What are the activities and
contributions of local faith
communities in prevention of
SGBV and in care for survivors?
Samaritan's Purse

14. Learning Hub:
Capacity building
for Local Faith
Communities
Christian Aid
What is being done to strengthen the
capacity of faith groups to care for
local communities, and to collect and
communicate data?

15. More information @ www.jliflc.com duffjean@gmail.com

16. Looking ahead
New Learning Hubs
• Child Health and Survival
• Peace and Conflict
• Other?
Conference: July 2015
“Effective partnerships between public sector and faith
groups towards ending extreme poverty”
Co-hosts: World Bank, USAID, DFID, German BMZ, and
others, in collaboration with JLIF&LC

17. JLI F&LC Invitations to CHAs
1. Please join Learning Hubs
Start a new Learning Hub?
2. Exchange information on “what works”—and what doesn’t for
effective partnerships
Asset mapping
Contracting mechanisms
Quality of care
Case studies
Scalable models
Best practice
3. ACHAP participation in July conference: bring evidence for
effective partnerships to international development policy makers

18. Recommendations
strengthening faith groups’ partnership with public sector and donors
SOLUTIONS BIG ENOUGH FOR THE CHALLENGE!
1. Improve evidence base; document capacity, activity, outcomes,
mechanisms. Share knowledge. New research partnerships with academia
Health service delivery capacity
Community health care capacity
Congregational capacity for health
2. Scale up faith group collaboration
cross denominational/faith
joint facilities and faith communities networks
equip and mobilize local faith leaders and communities
3. Make the case to the public sector
authorize collective representation
align with national plans
evidence: how faith groups deliver outcomes for people living on
extremely low incomes

19. Exchange
Collaborate
Communicate
Sponsor/co-fund
Robust
Data
Faith Communities
Fully Engaged for
UHC and for a World
Without Extreme
Poverty

20. Questions for Conversation
• How to scale up mapping of faith
group facility and congregational
assets?
• How to facilitate sharing of info on
what works in faith groups w policy
makers and practitioners?
• Authorizing collective representation:
Multi-faith coordinating mechanisms?
• Examples of effective
partnerships..what makes for
success?
CRS

21. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria are the leading
killers of children under age 5; roughly 44% of deaths in children under 5 occur
during the neonatal period
Malaria
7%
Injury
5%
AIDS
2%
Other
22%
Neonatal
44%
Pneumonia
17%
Diarrhoea
9%
Globally, nearly half of
all deaths among
children under 5 are
attributable to
undernutrition
Estimates are rounded, and therefore may not sum to 100%.
Global distribution of deaths among
children under age 5, by cause, 2012
Source: UNICEF Data & Analytics Section, as presented in APR Progress Report 2013.

22. 10 promises for Children by Faith Groups
1.Breastfeed all newborns exclusively through the age of six months;
2. Immunize children and newborns
3. Eliminate all harmful traditions and violence against children
4. Feed children with proper nutritional foods and micronutrient supplements, where available, and de-worm
children;
5. For diarrhea, give oral rehydration salts (ORS) and daily Zinc supplements
6. Give children antibiotic treatment for pneumonia; promptly treat sick children
7. Have children drink water from a safe source,
8. Have all children wash their hands with soap and water
9. Have all children use a toilet or latrine, and safely dispose of children’s feces
10. In malarial areas, all children sleep nightly under LLIN, and seek proper malaria testing and treatment for
sick children
A Promise Renewed UNICEF 2014