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About Us

From 1993 to today

Action for Health Development grew out of thirteen years of community-based health work, and became a registered Cambodian NGO in November 2006.

Timeline

  1. 1993 – 2006

    Origins

    Before AHEAD existed

    The managers and staff who would go on to found AHEAD gained their medical, management and financial experience and training working with Catholic Relief Services on community-based health programmes in Cambodia.

  2. November 2006

    Founded

    Registered as a Cambodian NGO

    Action for Health Development was officially registered with the Ministry of Interior as a Cambodian NGO, carrying forward the community-based approach its founders had spent thirteen years practising.

  3. From 2006

    Community health

    Community-based health, water and sanitation

    As a Cambodian NGO, AHEAD obtained funds from and collaborated with the government and other NGOs to manage Community Based Health Programs, with water and sanitation and transportation components.

  4. 2009 – 2015

    Global Fund era

    HIV, tuberculosis and health system strengthening

    AHEAD implemented HIV/AIDS and TB prevention, care and treatment programmes alongside health system strengthening, including Global Fund programmes for HIV/AIDS, TB, HSS and malaria, and a prison health programme.

  5. 2016 – 2025

    Expansion

    Accountability, behaviour change and malaria elimination

    Work expanded into the Implementation of Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF), Promoting Healthy Behaviors (PHB) and the Cambodia Malaria Elimination Project, alongside continued community health programming.

  6. 2021 – today

    Now

    Village health workers, fever management and AMR

    Current work includes sustaining the village health worker programme with expanded roles in the GMS project, Electronic Clinical Decision support for Acute fever Management (EDAM), public engagement on antimicrobial resistance through circus arts, Clean Hands Healthy Babies, and the EpiC malaria project.

Our focus

The most vulnerable, especially women and children

Throughout these projects, AHEAD has focused on providing services to the most vulnerable — especially women and children — and on strengthening individuals, communities and the health system through a fully integrated approach.

See our projects Mission & vision