Implementing A Quality Management Approach for Improved Health Services in Bangladesh

From 2017 to 2023, Chemonics supported 134 private clinics in Bangladesh to become the Surjer Hashi Network (SHN) through the USAID-funded Advancing Universal Health Coverage Activity (AUHC). Chemonics used a comprehensive approach based on a quality management framework that includes three essential functions: quality design/planning (QDP), quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), and quality. The development of…

Chemonics at CIES 2024

Chemonics is proud to be a sponsor of the 68th annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), which is taking place online beginning March 6th and in Miami, Florida beginning March 10th, 2024.  The theme for this year’s event is “The Power of Protest”, and we’re sharing our work on teacher professional…

Disinformation in Niger: Trends and Recommendations

Coordinated disinformation campaigns – online and offline – seek to sow discord in democracies by subverting elections, undermining trust in public institutions, and shaping public perceptions about politically controversial issues. Among tactics, operators seek to plant and amplify false narratives designed to deepen existing social fractures and create distrust of institutions. This research serves to…

How Local Partners are “Meeting the Moment”

This report was inspired by, and draws heavily from, the Meeting the Moment: Local Changemakers Lead in Fragile and Conflict States event. Hosted by Chemonics International, this summit convened over 40 local partners representing more than 20 countries. They shared their experience working with a variety of donors and implementing partners to support peacebuilding, education, anticorruption,…

Strengthening Country Capacity to Prepare for Public Health Emergencies

Changes in our climate are contributing to changes in vector ecology, amplifying the risk of epidemics and pandemics from both endemic and emerging infectious disease agents. In addition, the threat of bioterrorism continues to pervade across the globe. Global health, however, security cannot be achieved without the creation of equitable, resilient, and efficient health systems…

Senegal Undertakes Reforms to Increase Financial Protection for Health

Senegal is a leader in the West African region as it continues to reform and innovate its health system toward the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). Healthcare is a right guaranteed in the Senegalese constitution and remains a high political priority for the Government of Senegal. Through the USAID Building a Resilient Health System…

Trauma-Informed Approaches to Development

Chemonics’ trauma-informed approach emphasizes a combined conceptual approach of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s six Trauma-Informed Principles, and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Intervention Pyramid to inform the practical activity recommendations and tools for each stage. With 28 unique tools and numerous other external tools included, this toolkit…

Chemonics at the 2023 Global Health Supply Chain Summit

Chemonics staff were excited to join more than 400 other supply chain professionals from around the world at the recent 2023 Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS). Our staff from Burkina Faso, Kenya, Niger, Rwanda, Zambia, and Washington, D.C., participated in a series of presentations and panels under the summit theme, “The Journey to Self-Reliance:…