International Development Grant
Better Access to Health and Education Services
Project Number: CA-3-S064147PRG
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $1,337,465.00
Start Date: August 24, 2009
End Date: December 31, 2014
Duration: 5.4 years
Project Description
This program aims to improve health services and to ensure their sustainability. Program activities support Collaboration santé international’s local partners involved in development projects by providing them with medical supplies and equipment furniture and medicine as well as training for the use of the medical equipment.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (December 2014) include: 111 containers were delivered to the eight beneficiary countries. These deliveries contributed to provide better access to primary health care particularly for women and children through the distribution of medical equipment supplies and medicine. The project also contributed to: (1) the installation of functional operating rooms; (2) strengthening medical personnel’s capacities; (3) access to health services in ophthalmology gynaecology and dentistry; (4) important increase in childbirth assisted by skilled personnel; and (5) paediatric care made available thanks to the distribution of medical equipment to health dispensaries and hospitals in these countries.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Collaboration santé internationale
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP