SIERRA LEONE
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Country Snapshot
Our work in Sierra Leone builds on experiences and
lessons from HealthGrid, a predecessor program led by HETA founding partner RESOLVE with
World Vision, Orange, and other contributors. HETA’s work in 2023 focused on
integrating learning from HealthGrid, co-creation activities to increase private sector
engagement, and the development of sustainability strategies for O&M, especially in remote
and rural health facilities. Sustained access to energy, digital connectivity, and water,
sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services are a priority for this effort, which will support
the health system to meet the challenges of endemic malaria, maternal mortality, and
workforce shortages—all exacerbated by inadequate and unreliable access to electricity.
USAID Mission Funding
We expect to receive initial funding of
$1.35 million from USAID Sierra Leone, complementing $350,000 from HETA’s core
funds.
Facilities & People Reached
We are working with USAID and the
Ministry of Health to select 50–60 health facilities to support in HETA’s
second year.
Local Partners & Leverage Resources
We expect to finalize partnerships with World
Vision, Mobile Power, and other partners in 2024.
Partner Spotlight
Created in 1977, RESOLVE is
an independent, non-partisan NGO and a HETA founding partner.
In 2021, RESOLVE launched HealthGrid Sierra Leone, a predecessor USAID
Global Development Alliance formed in partnership with Orange Sierra Leone,
World Vision, Dalan Development Consultants, Gavi – the Vaccine Alliance,
and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to provide solar power, internet,
and, in some cases, WASH systems to off-grid health facilities while
ensuring long-term maintenance of the systems.
Twenty-six health facilities in Sierra Leone have benefited
from HealthGrid’s operations. This success helped catalyze
HETA’s work. RESOLVE also supports HETA’s work across
sub-Saharan Africa in two important ways:
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By designing and testing strategies for long-term O&M support
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By facilitating visioning and strategy development exercises to help achieve HETA’s longer-term vision of becoming an independent organization
Orange Group is one of the
world’s leading telecommunications operators, present in
26 countries, including 18 in the Middle East and Africa.
Orange is a founding HETA partner and a co-creator of the
HealthGrid methodology under a separate program funded by USAID Sierra
Leone. In Sierra Leone, they support a holistic package of healthcare
infrastructure that includes reliable solar PV solutions, mobile
connectivity, and WASH systems. Orange also contributes to stakeholder
engagement, needs assessment, and technical reviews for energy, digital
connectivity, and water pumps at supported facilities, in coordination with
other HETA partners in Sierra Leone and potentially in other countries where
Orange affiliates are present.
This report and the experiences it documents
were made possible through the support of the American people through the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID). It was produced by Abt Global for the Power
Africa Health Electrification and Telecommunications Alliance (USAID Cooperative Agreement
72067422CA00003).
