About HealthProm, UK charity, an its work in Kyrgyzstan

1. HealthProm

2.  UK-based international development NGO
working with local communities in Eastern
Europe and Asia to improve health and
social care for vulnerable women and
children.
 We currently work in Eastern Europe,
Central Asia, the Caucasus and Northern
Afghanistan.
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3. ...to achieve sustainable, culturally sensitive
dissemination of best practices in health and social
care for vulnerable groups in the region in
partnership with our overseas partners

4. To keep women and their babies safe
We work with local partners to promote safe
childbirth.
To keep families together and prevent child
institutionalisation
We ensure parents get the support they need to care for their
children, especially those with a disability or at risk.

5.  Prevention through safe motherhood
 Safe childbirth and newborn care
 Early intervention for improved child social
care and development
 Supporting vulnerable parents to care for
their children, especially children with
disabilities.

6. capacity-
building
evidence-
partnership
based
work
practice

7. UK – USSR Medical Exchange
Programme, 1984
Aim: To build up friendship and trust
between the UK and the USSR through the
medical network

8.  Kyrgyzstan
 Tajikistan
 Uzbekistan
 Azerbaijan
 Northern Afghanistan
 Russia
In the past we also worked in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

9.  Train health and social care professionals
 Develop publications and training materials
 Raise public awareness and advocate at regional
and national levels
 Organise public health education and prevention
campaigns
 Build capacity of local NGOs and provide
networking opportunities

10. Safe Childbirth Project in Azerbaijan
Together with our Azerbaijani partner NGO “Family and Society” we trained
more than 300 doctors and midwives in more than 6 regions in the country
and provided necessary medical equipment to local hospitals in Sheki and
Kizhi regions. The project was funded by GlaxoSmithKline and started in
2003.
Inter-regional League of Midwives of Russia
HealthProm helped develop the first professional association for midwives
for Russia, which acts as a voice for Russian midwives and advocates for a
defined professional role for midwives based on international definitions
and standards of midwifery education and practice.
Bologoye Hospital Project (Tver region, Russia)
HealthProm provided essential medical equipment and professional
training for the Bologoye Hospital Maternity Department
Newborn care in Uzbekistan
HealthProm provided training of trainers in resuscitation of newborn babies
in Uzbekistan in partnership with the Ministry of Health and UNICEF

11. Altai Child Disability Project (Siberia, Russia)
 HealthProm and our Russian partner NGO Revival established two day care centres for disabled
children and their families, which provided community based care and support service for
disabled children and their families
Young Child Attachment, St. Petersburg
 In partnership with the St Petersburg Early Intervention Institute
 The main aim was to build the Institute's knowledge and understanding of children's needs for
development and a Russian evidence base of research findings on what works best for child
development, to be disseminated throughout Russia.
 The project also made a training film entitled "Early Relationships
and Child Development“ and a film The Road Home

12. “Supporting young disabled children and their
families in Kyrgyz Republic”
•Started in May 2008, for three years
•Funded by the Big Lottery Fund
•Working in partnership with two Kyrgyz NGOs – Association
of Parents of Disabled Children, Bishkek, and Public
Association “Shoola-Kol”, Issyk-Kul region
Aim: To reach children living with mental
and physical disabilities and their families
in order to provide information and
support to prevent the children entering state-run
institutions.

13.  The project focuses on improving health and
well-being of young children with disabilities
between birth and 7 years and their parents.
 We provide good accessible information,
community-based support services and
emotional and practical support to new
families of children with special needs.
 Achievements: HealthProm and its partners
have worked together to establish two day
centres and provide a minibus for outreach
services. One of the main elements of this
project has been changing the attitudes in the
wider community towards children living with

14. An Early Years Support Centre service in
Dushanbe
 This two year long project started in December 2009
 Funded by the European Commission
The project :
 Provides crisis support and short term accommodation for women
and children at risk;
 Provides counselling and support to parents and awareness training
for local administrators;
 Trains professionals in child care and early intervention.

15.  New project started in January 2011Location: Talas region
 Our partners: Nur Bala, Association of Parents of Disabled
Children (ARDI), Shoola-Kol
 Donor: ICCO
 Aim: to support children with severe and multiple intellectual
disabilities and their families in Talas region through
establishing and strengthening sustainable community-based
support mechanisms in the region.

16.  …based on the success of our current project
funded by the Big Lottery Fund and will continue
our partnership with ARDI in Bishkek and Shoola-
Kol in Bokonbaevo.
 Through Nur Bala we will support 6 parents groups
to become local Family Support Centres and will
establish a regional network of parents groups that
will give a voice to families of children with
disabilities, with a specific focus on intellectual
disabilities.

17. Reducing maternal and newborn deaths in
Charharkint District, Northern Afghanistan
Partners: Bakhtar Development Network
Project activities:
 Recruiting and training community health workers to provide basic health
care
 Raising awareness and improving quality of care in 10 poor villages
 Providing essential equipment and supplies, building premises for the
health centre
 Providing motor transport for obstetric emergencies

18.  The term “partnership” is used in a variety of
ways and in different contexts.
Most common definition:
Partnership means a formal agreement
between two or more parties that
have agreed to work together in the
pursuit of common goals.

19.  Create a bond of trust and demonstrate
openness
 Work as a team
 Respect the organizational mission of each
partner
 Respect the expectations and limits of each
partner
 Share power, risks and responsibilities
 Encourage commitment and equal
involvement from all partners

20. HealthProm has had partnerships with:
 Hospitals
 Local authorities (departments of health, etc)
 National and regional governments
(Ministries)
 NGOs
 Universities and colleges
 Professional associations
 Individuals

21. Challenges
 Finding a good partner
 Building trust
 Changing environment (etc legal, funding etc)
 Language and cultural differences
 Working with a partner from a distance
 Limitations of various types of partners
 Sustainability

22. Opportunities
 Strong local NGOs
 Accessibility –internet, other technologies
 Change in partnership approach from
international NGOs
 Funding requirements for partnerships
 Mutual interests

23.  Invest in feasibility study and in finding a
“good” partner
 Be clear about roles and responsibilities of
each partner
 Equal partnership, no patronising please!
You can learn a lot from partners
 Start working on sustainability of your
partners and a project from the very
beginning –do not leave to the end of the
project

24.  Risk assessment of the partnership before the
start of the project/at the beginning
 Make clear the difference between “donor”
and “partner”
 Respect the people you work with
 Don’t make assumptions
 Be sensitive cultural differences
 Don’t forget about partnerships with other
similar international or European NGOs