Ethiopia

The Alliance has a long-term partnership with Ethiopia to strengthen health systems and support evidence-informed policy-making, combining capacity strengthening, embedded implementation research and close collaboration with policy-makers to translate evidence into action.

What the Alliance supports

• Building national capacity for health policy and systems research – including support to masters dissertations and training for researchers and policy-makers.
• Embedded implementation research – with a strong focus on improving immunization services, in collaboration with partners such as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and UNICEF.
• University-led implementation research capability – supporting the University of Gondar to serve as a technical support centre for implementation research, integrate implementation science into its curriculum and strengthen collaboration between researchers and policy-makers.
• Research to improve quality of care – including work on compassionate and respectful care.
• Demand for evidence in government – supporting the Ministry of Health to establish a Policy Analysis Case Team to commission evidence for policy.

What this has helped achieve

This work has contributed to actionable changes, including the development of a national community verification platform for immunization data.