The Joint European Initiative to Strengthen Medical Specialization in Ethiopia is a project of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), and the European Union, in close collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia (FMoH). The aim is to support the capacity of the Ethiopian Health System to recover from conflict and crisis, making it more resilient to future shocks.
This initiative is an exercise of complementarity, harmonisation, alignment and policy dialogue – the essence of the Team Europe Approach – emphasising the commitment of the European Union and the Member States to strengthen Universal Health Coverage and public health systems as a basis for reducing inequalities and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, with specific attention to post-conflict recovery and capacity building in the health sector.
Objectives
More specifically, the project seeks to:
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Improve human resources development in eight targeted hospitals, through specialized training.
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Improve infrastructure for specialized medicine and provision of quality and context-based equipment.
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Reinforce hospital management capacities identified as a gap by the Government.
Project Activities
In-service training missions conducted for medical staff on the following areas of medical specialization: Anaesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine; Emergency and Critical Care Medicine; Orthopaedics and Traumatology; Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Paediatrics and Child Health; Psychiatry; Radiology, and Surgery.
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Biomedical training workshops for bio-medical engineers and for end users
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Rehabilitation of infrastructure in three university hospitals
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Procurement of medical equipment in eight targeted hospitals
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Grants to clinical research projects
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Trainings on gender mainstreaming
Expected Results
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400 senior resident specialists trained with in-service missions from Europe
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Infrastructure rehabilitated in 3 hospitals
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10 medical specialties programs reinforced with equipment
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6 Research papers published at an international level
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8 hospitals with a gender equality protocol adopted
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