Public Health Steering Team Uganda-Growth, Development and Skilling Proposal -Concept Note-2023-2028

 

A Public Health Steering Team-Uganda

Growth, Development And

Skilling Initiative for 50,000

 Grassroots-based CBOs Using the Be-Ci Life Course Perspective Model In

Greater Masaka Region

Uganda- East Africa

Proposed Budget: USD 21,115,000

Duration: 2023-2028

Concept Note

Background and Introduction:

We borrow heavily from the SDGs; the life course perspective; theories from pathogenesis and salutogenesis; and other sources highlighting the connection experiences of quality life outcomes have with the Behavioural, Environmental, Biological, Social, Economic, Cultural, Political, Medical, Gender, Physical and Civic (Be-Ci) enabling and responsive contexts. We hope to work with existing NGOs, CBOs, Local Governments and other entities to bring to the attention of stakeholders where we need to stress interventions that leverage better life outcomes for people in Greater Masaka Region.

 

Vision:

We want to use this concept in two ways: to showcase our work in Greater Masaka which will eventually roll out to the rest of Uganda; secondly, we believe in contributing to a world where everyone is prospering and enjoying life to the fullest.

 

Problem Statement:

Linking communities to opportunities for better life outcomes is still an uphill task in Greater Masaka Region. This is seen in reference to the high morbidity and mortality due to SRH, non-communicable, communicable diseases, HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria and other communicable diseases. There are several factors or contexts that are ignored by interventions, policy, planning and programming. These need to be aligned with the enabling and responsive contexts to ensure effective and quality life outcomes. These have to be tested for physical, emotional, cognitive, and social changes that occur across a person’s life course. Studies in life course perspectives, caution that life stage influences should be factored in all forms of planning, programming and policy-development. A single life event, affects the next, and together the emotional, behavioural, gender, political, civic, social, economic and physical environments in which we live have a profound influence on our health and the health of our community.  Most interventions, while introduced in good spirit and with life promoting intentions, face the cradle to grave phenomena because they fail to address the relationship between the structural, social, and cultural contexts that make them up.

 

 

Solution:

The project aims at empowering participants with Behavioural, Environmental, Biological, Social, Economic, Cultural, Political, Medical, Gender, Physical and Civic (Be-Ci) self-evaluation knowledge and skills to prepare and make them ready for growth and development.

 

Objectives:

These shall be some of the objectives in which our project will be rooted;

                                          

• To establish synergy and integrative solutions
• To provide a setting for psychosocial support, building self-esteem and self-worthiness.
• To link participants to opportunities for primary, secondary and vocational education.
• To provide settings for participants to navigate life with confidence based on informed life promoting decisions.
• To improve the nutrition of these vulnerable children and youths.    
• To establish a safe space for formation and life planning skills improving decision-support to engage in better life outcomes.
• To increase capacity in job preparedness, readiness, creation and income generation.
• To increase on the critical mass of safety spaces in rural communities of Uganda that offer opportunities for growth and development.   

 

 

Scoping, Scaling and Methodology:

We shall train our champions or influencers in knowledge, skills and equip them with the attitude to mainstream SDGs; the life course perspective; theories from pathogenesis and salutogenesis; and other sources highlighting the connection experiences of quality life outcomes have with the Behavioural, Environmental, Biological, Social, Economic, Cultural, Political, Medical, Gender, Physical and Civic (Be-Ci) enabling and responsive contexts in the identified areas. We hope to work with existing NGOs, CBOs, Local Governments and other entities to bring to the attention of stakeholders where we need to stress interventions that leverage better life outcomes for people in Greater Masaka Region and Uganda at large.

 

Activities:

Provide skilling in analysis of Behavioural, Environmental, Biological, Social, Economic, Cultural, Political, Medical, Gender, Physical and Civic related domains enabling or acting as barriers to healthy living and development. We hope to work with the central government, local government, Public-Private-Mix (PPM), build Communities of Practice (COP), explore connections and ensure Community Systems Strengthening (CSS), building Resilient and Sustainable Systems of Development and Health (RSSDH), build safety nets led by stakeholders and other development partners to create a sustainable development and health safety net.

 

Target:

We hope to work with the central government, local government, Public-Private-Mix (PPM), build Communities of Practice (COP), explore connections and ensure Community Systems Strengthening (CSS), building Resilient and Sustainable Systems of Development and Health (RSSDH), build safety nets led by stakeholders and other development partners to create a sustainable development and health safety net.

 

 

Benefits and Outcomes:

An outcome plan following the analysis of Behavioural, Environmental, Biological, Social, Economic, Cultural, Political, Medical, Gender, Physical and Civic related domains enabling or acting as barriers to healthy living and development. We shall have identified the departments of the central government, local government, Public-Private-Mix (PPM) entities, build Communities of Practice (COP), explore connections and ensure Community Systems Strengthening (CSS), building Resilient and Sustainable Systems of Development and Health (RSSDH), build safety nets led by stakeholders and other development partners to create a sustainable development and health safety net.

 

Timeline:

Our plan includes building safety nets led by stakeholders and other development partners to create a sustainable development and health safety net between 2023-2028.

 

Milestones:

1.      Formation of the Public Health Steering Team-Uganda

2.      MOUs with the Fiscal Agency

3.      Concept and Inception Notes in place

Management:

1.      Formation of the Public Health Steering Team-Uganda

2.      Fiscal Agency in place

3.      Minutes and other constitutional documents in place

 

Cost of Doing Business:

This is an appeal for start-up cash to enable us establish the support mechanism spread across five years. We shall continue mobilising resources widely among local and international organizations; community self-help groups; development partners; corporate entities; and private individuals in order to improve the situation under which the adolescents and the youth live and grow. 

 

 

Business Unusual:

We, intend to use this programme to educate, inspire and empower communities to engage in practices reducing risks, vulnerabilities and improving social protection mechanisms. We shall establish models that can be replicated by different organisations to ensure a transformative today, disruptive today, revolutionary today and at the same time an innovative evolutionary process that addresses the basic needs of life as programme participants navigate life. 

 

Quality of health and development services are critical to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). Overall, between 5.7 and 8.4 million deaths are attributed to poor quality care each year in low and middle-income countries, which accounts for up to 15% of overall deaths in these settings. Addressing life time risks and vulnerabilities reduces exposure to illnesses and debilitation which affect life promoting outcomes. Engagement in life promoting activities reduces significant poverty-related burdens.

 

Target Programme Participants:

The main target programme participants are the CBOs and Viable Groups in the Greater Masaka Region in both the urban and rural villages. By the end of five years we hope to have reached out to 150,000 programme participants who will directly benefit from the initiative with emphasis on Persons with Disabilities, girl-child and the boy-child aged group of 9-29 years. We hope to work with 50,000 CBOs/CSOs/FBOs; 25 Local Governments; 20 Development Partners; and other partners.

 

Sustainability:

The following are the strategies for sustainability:

·         Establish a Centrally placed Knowledge Hub to act as a Drop-in Resource Center with satellites in all Regional points of service.

·         Linkage to income and self-help associations which are already registered as Cooperatives eligible for Government of Uganda soft loan and credit extension.

·         Provision of life course assistive materials supporting agency, autonomy, self-determination and productivity.

·         Creating Community sustainable income generating projects (CSIGPs).

·         Working within/with development networks to share resources in form of Communities of Practice (COPs), Parents and guardians, Local Council, Traditional and Religious leaders.

 

 

 

Expertise and Operational Capacity 

The Public Health Steering Team is made up of members with accumulated experiences in Medicine, Clinical care, Epidemiology, Research, Social development, Social work, Education, parenting, Social-mobilisation, Knowledge Hub management, Incubator management, Accelerator support work, Hack practitioners, Innovator-Hub management, Development Catalysts and connections with the Central Government to link communities to Government programmes. We are made up of an executive team, boards of directors and trustees who are experienced in a variety of transformative skilling. Through a combination of networking and volunteering we continue to advocate and campaign for social-economic and self-sustenance. We hope that if you provided us this money, we shall be able to link programme participants to programmes such as: water, Sanitation and Hygiene projects (WASH), Climatic Smart Actions (CSA), Health Promotion education campaigns and establishment of managed Kitchen gardening. All projects have a direct connection to the local government including Sub county chiefs, Health inspectors, Parish chiefs, Traditional and Local leaders Population-Based Structures.

 

Budget Breakdown: 2023-2028

S/N	Particular	Number	Frequency	Cost  (USD)	Amount (USD)
1	Knowledge Hub Secretariat	12	5	3000.oo	180,000. oo
2a	Rates/Surcharges	1	5	1000.oo	5,000. oo
2b	Security	12	5	1000.oo	60,000. oo
3	Administrative Activities	12	5	4000.oo	240,000. oo
4	Linkage to Training Support per District	10	20 CBOs X 5	20,000. oo	20,000,000. oo
5	Health Emergency	12	5	1,000. oo	60,000. oo
6	Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning	12	5	3,000. oo	180,000. oo
7	Exhibition, Fairs, Sports and Recreation	12	5	3,000. oo	180,000. oo
9	Review Meetings, Audit and Reports	4	5	2,000. oo	40,000. oo
10	Office Equipment	1	1	50,000. oo	50,000. oo
11	Hotel	12	5	2,000. oo	120,000. oo
12	Transportation/Mobility	1	1	150,000. oo	150,000. oo
	Grand Total				21,215,000