USAID Services de Santé à Grand Impact (SSGI) Project

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                                                      USAID Services de Santé à Grand Impact (SSGI) Project

                                                      Caption: This collection of images and case studies is from the USAID-funded Services de Santé à Grand Impact project (SSGI) in Mali (2015-2020), and more specifically in the communities of Kayes, Sikasso, and Koulikoro regions and the District of Bamako. These stories depict the success of multiple activities streams and technical areas within the project aimed at improving the health and nutrition, and ultimately the survival of women and children in Mali. These stories show how USAID SSGI empowered individuals and communities to achieve lasting change. They further reflect the deep partnerships forged between families, communities, health providers, and government to ensure that no woman dies while giving life and all children live to celebrate their fifth birthday. In 2020, as the world faced an unprecedented health crisis, these partnerships enabled a strong and adaptive response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with service utilization quickly rebounding after an initial decline following the first declared cases in Mali.Specific image info: -Practicing Prevention during COVID-19 –Fatoumata Keita, 33-year old mother of four from Kangaba health district. During community nutrition support group (GSAN) activities, SSGI encouraged mothers like Fatoumata to practice COVID-19 prevention practices like handwashing, wearing cloth masks, social distancing, avoiding public spaces and speaking to their household members about following these practices. Quote from Fatoumata:“Since COVID-19 started, I have not been tested positive nor have I been in contact with in an infected person, but I wear a mask, particularly when I breastfeed, as a preventive measure based on the information I received from GSAN members and the SSGI NGO community counsellor.”

                                                      The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded SSGI project improved the survival and nutritional status of Malian mothers, newborns, and children under-5 through increased and sustained use of high-impact health services and household practices at scale. Over the life of the program (December 2014-December 2020), SSGI improved the survival and nutritional status of the target population by expanding innovative, evidence-based, high-impact maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), family planning, malaria, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions, and services to communities living in all districts in the regions of Kayes, Koulikoro, and Sikasso, in Bamako’s six communes and in one district of Gao. SSGI provided financial and technical resources to support the Government of Mali to attain its health objectives and collaborated closely with other USAID bilateral and global projects, as well as other health partners in Mali. A package of integrated health interventions and services formed the core of SSGI’s approach. These were delivered from the household to the health facility in targeted communities using the health center (CSCom) as the cornerstone for program cohesion and expansion. The project area targeted a population of more than 2.6 million women of reproductive age (WRA), more than 2.4 million children under-5, and more than 600,000 newborns annually.

                                                      Purpose

                                                      This collection of resources highlights SSGI’s evidence-based programming package of integrated health interventions and services used to reach the project’s results:

                                                      Improved demand for quality health services and products and adoption of healthy behaviors at the individual, household and community levels.
                                                      Improved access to, and quality of, integrated high-impact health services and appropriate referrals.
                                                      Improved health systems management, functioning and accountability at the community, district and regional levels

                                                      Audience

                                                      This collection compiles programmatic information and results, implementation research evidence, case studies, technical briefs, tools and other resources for implementers and project managers that can help improve health interventions in communities and in healthcare institutions.

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