Our Objective: 

To help the Rwandan Ministry of Health achieve the goals of its HSSP by working to create an improved primary care system that will help Rwanda satisfy the following Millennium Development Goals:

Goal #4: Reduce Child Mortality

Goal #5: Improve Maternal Health

Goal #6: Combat HIV/AIDs, Malaria, TB and other infectious diseases

Our Strategy:

To develop both the medical and operational systems of rural health centres, CCHIPs consists of programs and initiatives  distributed across five elements:

1. Improve Physical Infrastructure.
   

   • Clean water, electricity, proper sanitation, hygienic and structurally sound facilities, and basic medical equipment and supplies are rarely available.  Very low cost and effective solutions to these problems are addressed immediately!

   • CCHIPs will ensure compliance with the MoH's infrastructure and equipment standards and where needed prioritize demand-driven infrastructure, equipment and services to be provided in addition to these standards.

2. Provide Medical Protocols and Training.
   
   • CCHIPs will collaborate with local and international NGOs working in Rwanda to leverage their effective training models to develop skills and knowledge of the health centre’s staff and to enhance or to expand necessary primary health care services to ensure the delivery of care is in accordance with the MoH's standards.

   • CCHIPs has created and will continue to manage a system for visiting international healthcare professionals to effectively transmit skills and knowledge to health centre staff and animators.
3. Enhance and Create Preventative Healthcare Programs.
   
   • CCHIPs is developing processes to make the delivery of existing programs more effective, and when needed creating and implementing additional programs. 
4. Build Management Systems and Processes.

   • In partnership with other NGOs and local governments, CCHIPs is developing and implementing basic health centre management systems, guidelines and reporting requirements.  Well functioning management systems are essential to program implementation and monitoring.

5. Engage and Empower the Community.
   

   • CCHIPs is developing and implementing effective training models to improve the knowledge and skills of the Health Sector's cadre of Animators (Community Health Workers).

   • Whenever possible, solutions are found using local labor and materials when improving infrastructure and local human resources when hiring and training staff.

     CCHIPs considers the health needs of the whole community as well as individual patients throughout the coordination and implementation of the CCHIPs strategy.

Throughout this five component approach we focus on delivering practical and sustainable solutions that will be able to be maintained by the local communities.  All actions are documented and progress is regularly reported to the local government.

 
Ultimately the success of the national health policy depends upon the degree of community mobilization and participation and the extent to which donors and other partners of Rwanda support the healthcare sector. Wyman Worldwide Health Partners and its CCHIPs strategy seeks to facilitate these goals to bring necessary and sustainable comprehensive primary healthcare services to the rural communities of Rwanda.

Please read more about our progress at our Shingiro Site.

For more in-depth information about our CCHIPs program, you can download the NGO Concept Paper here.