The Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030) Mali program, funded by USAID Mali from January 2018 to December 2020, provided technical assistance directly to the Ministry of Health and Social Development (MHSD) to strengthen human resources management for the health workforce and improve...
It’s 7 a.m. on a Friday in the village of Kolosso, in Mali’s Segou region, and the sun is up. Members of the Benkadi women’s group have come together in the public square with buckets, shovels, and wheelbarrows to collect garbage. They aren’t just cleaning...
Fatoumata Bado, matron at the Kamoune Diambre Rural Maternity Hospital in Mali’s Diéma health district. After the members of the Kamoune Diambre women's group, with HRH2030's orientation in the community health approach, began sensitizing local households on the importance of health care and the...
Madjita Diarra is one of seven traditional birth attendants in Diéma district who have made the transition from home births to health center deliveries. Thanks to USAID support, 435 traditional birth attendants have been oriented and 313 of them have moved to health center...
In 2017, Dr. Namory Camara’s career took a new trajectory when, after seven years of working in private health clinics, he joined Mali’s civil service and was assigned to the Kadiolo Referral Health Center in the Sikasso region. At 37, he was appointed the...
There are simply not enough health workers to meet the basic health needs of all people worldwide. By transforming the global health workforce, we can transform health systems to deliver for all....
This year’s theme for International Women’s Day, "I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights" resonates with me as I look at the work of HRH2030 in Mali. Here, the majority of the population lives in rural areas and most of the work we do...
In this three questions piece, HRH2030 Technical Project Manager Mekdelawit Bayu discusses HRH2030’s activity for enhancing supervision to strengthen health worker performance and health system viability....
Rural women’s groups in Mali are proving that community health systems get stronger when national-level interventions are paired with community-level capacity building to make communities self-reliant....
USAID's HRH2030 program is working in three target regions in Mali — Kayes, Koulikoro, and Sikasso — to implement a community-based strategy to improve maternity, family planning, and nutrition services, and reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality. By building the coaching and mentoring capacity...