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About Us

Sustain health and quality of life for all

Action for Health Development works to improve the quality of health and life of the Cambodian people, regardless of race, age, sex or religion.

Our mission

What we work toward

  1. Work toward improving the quality of health and life of the Cambodian people regardless of race, age, sex, or religion through working with government and community partners to improve the quality, accessibility, availability and sustainability of Community Based Primary Health Care and other health interventions.

  2. Strengthen and empower communities, community structures and health providers to develop capacity and skills on health issues and self-management to address their own problems.

  3. Promote dignity, peace, justice, solidarity, transparency, good governance, accountability, good stewardship, efficiency and self-reliance for all.

  4. Gain and apply knowledge and skills from government health service and NGO partners.

Our vision

Sustain health and quality of life for all

Our goal

Improve health status for individuals, families and vulnerable groups, especially in poor and underserved communities in Cambodia.

Our objectives

How we get there

  • High-quality health programming contributing to reducing mortality and morbidity of vulnerable groups.

  • Partners — communities, community structures, government health providers and others — are empowered to independently develop, manage and sustain excellent Community Based Primary Health Care programmes and other programmes which provide quality services to the target groups.

  • The organisation develops and sustains expertise and becomes a leader in the health sector.

  • Partnerships and alliances are developed, strengthened and sustained through collaboration with government, NGOs and donors to facilitate programme replication and expansion.

Our values

The working environment we hold to

AHEAD believes in and respects a healthy working environment in the organisation, built on these eleven values.

  • Accountability
  • Dignity
  • Efficiency
  • Fairness
  • Justice
  • Good governance
  • Good stewardship
  • Ownership
  • Solidarity
  • Self-reliance
  • Transparency