Achieving Excellence in Primary Health Care

Fenot 2.0

Project Overview

Phase 2 of our work

Fenot 2.0

2022-2027

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: 

  • Embedding evidence-to-policy and health system financing technical experts in the MoH and RHBs to facilitate evidence-based decision-making and policy implementation. 
  • Conducting studies and creating relevant dissemination products (peer-reviewed articles, reports and presentations) to respond to government priorities and other evidence gaps.
  • Establishing knowledge-to-practice structures within the MoH and RHBs that identify, prioritize, and address local issues by co-developing concept notes, analyzing data, and producing and disseminating reports. 
  • Chairing monthly research dissemination meetings in the MoH and RHBs that bring together researchers, health systems, and partner organizations’ leaders and staff to learn about and contextualize evidence for use in Ethiopia.
  • Developing and delivering evidence-to-policy, leadership, and healthcare financing training
  • Continuously conducting an environmental scan and strategic collaborations to mitigate duplications and maximize the synergy of similar efforts in Ethiopia. 
  • Establishing Fenot Associates - a health-oriented research institution based in Ethiopia and the United States.

Strategic Area 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.

Strategic Area 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.

Strategic Area 3

Localization

  • Enable sustainable outcomes and responsiveness to government needs through creating a local research organization capable of mobilizing diversified and sustainable financing as primary grantee.