About Us
Partners & Funders
Health ministries set the protocols. Funders make the planning horizon longer than a year. Community organisations were there first. None of the work is ours alone.
Who we work with
Four kinds of partnership
The institutions that have funded AHEAD projects, directly or through implementing partners.
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USAID
PHB, CMEP I & II, COVID-19 community empowerment, HIV/AIDS response
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The Global Fund (GFATM)
HIV/AIDS, TB DOTS, health system strengthening, malaria
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Wellcome Trust
EDAM fever management, GMS village health worker project
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University of Oxford
Antimicrobial resistance and ethics public engagement
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European Union
Implementation of Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF I and II)
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US Department of State
EpiC malaria project
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Plan International
Community Health Action & Transport (CHAT)
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Catholic Relief Services
Prison health, HIV/AIDS response, community health and sanitation
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Private donors
Clean Hands Healthy Babies, community-based health insurance, gap funding
Organisations AHEAD works through or alongside to deliver and evaluate projects.
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FHI 360
EpiC malaria, COVID-19 community empowerment, linked response and TB DOTS
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Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU)
EDAM, GMS village health worker project
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University Research Co. (URC)
Cambodia Malaria Elimination Project, phases I and II
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PSI
Promoting Health Behaviors
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CARE
Implementation of Social Accountability Framework
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Australian Society for Infectious Disease
EDAM fever management
Every project operates with the national and sub-national health system rather than beside it.
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Ministry of Health
Provincial health departments, operational districts and health centres
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Ministry of Interior
NGO registration and prison health coordination
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National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control (CNM)
Malaria programmes and supervision
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National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control (CENAT)
TB DOTS and prison health
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD (NCHADS)
HIV prevention, care and treatment
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General Department of Prisons
Prison health project
The village-level structures through which almost all AHEAD activity is actually delivered.
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Village Health Support Groups (VHSG)
Health promotion and referral in their own villages
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Village and Mobile Malaria Workers (VMW/MMW)
Testing, treatment and outreach in high-risk areas
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Health Center Management Committees
Community oversight of health centre services
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Community Based Health Care Teams
Home-based care and self-support groups
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Community Accountability Facilitators
Citizen-led monitoring under the social accountability framework
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Local authorities
Commune and village leadership across every project province
Our conditions
What we ask of a funder
Funding shapes programmes whether or not anyone intends it to. These four conditions are in every agreement we sign, and they are the reason we have turned down money.
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Integrated, not parallel
Projects are integrated with each other to maximise impact and decrease the resources needed for implementation, rather than run as separate vertical programmes.
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Through the health system
Work is delivered with provincial health departments, operational districts and health centres, and with the national programmes for malaria, TB and HIV.
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Community structures first
Village health support groups, village malaria workers and community committees deliver the work, with AHEAD supporting supervision, training and supply.
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Capacity that remains
Partners are empowered to independently develop, manage and sustain community-based primary health care programmes after a project ends.
Considering a partnership?
We are a straightforward organisation to fund: one agreement, independent evaluation, published results, and a named exit date. Tell us what you are trying to change.