Funded by the Gates Foundation and led by Ethiopian experts, the Fenot project aimed to increase the capacity of the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and regional health bureaus to build an evidence-based, high-quality health system by focusing on three important technical areas:
1. Embedding Evidence-to-Policy Practices - strengthen generation, synthesis, and use of locally relevant evidence, including routine data and innovative trials, to improve health care access, quality, equity, and efficiency for better outcomes.
2. Strengthening Health Care Financing - strengthen domestic resource mobilization for health, resource allocation, financial risk protection, strategic purchasing and efficiency through evidence generation and use, technical support and enhanced capacities.
3. Localization – enable sustainable outcomes and responsiveness to government needs through creating a local research organization, capable of mobilizing diversified and sustainable funding as primary grantee.
To achieve these objectives, Fenot has been: