Horn Africa One Tender

The project aims at improving the well-being of targeted pastoral communities challenged with inadequate access to basic healthveterinary services and environmental conditions in Somalia Ethiopia and Northern Kenya through integrated health service delivery for both pastoralists and their livestock. The project will contribute to stability and vulnerabilitys reduction of citizens in the region thereby reducing their displacementmigration which is in the interest of Switzerland and the international community.Countryregion Horn of Africa Somalia Ethiopia KenyaThe One Health Units for Humans Environment Animals and Livelihoods HEAL is a regional project covering the aridsemi-arid parts of the Horn of Africa HoA namely Northern Kenya Somalia and East Ethiopia where pastoralist communities suffer from poor infrastructure poor service delivery and historical marginalization. The availability accessibility and compatibility of health services provided to pastoralists and their livestock have been far from sufficient. The poor access to public services across the borders represents a potential public health threat. For e.g. in 2017 more than 131200 severe cases of cholera were recorded in the 3 countries and 24500 cases of measles were recorded in Ethiopia and Somalia. HEAL aims at building the livelihoods and well-being of pastoralist communities through a set of distinct but interlinked outcomes which address the 3 pillars of pastoralism i.e. livestock people and natural resources. HEAL will seek to improve access to human and veterinary health services through testing and establishing various options for One Health Units OHUs while at the same time building capacity for natural resources management NRM. OHUs provide health services for humans and livestock as one stop shops facilitating easy access. HEAL will also seek to establish a common vision and define a long term strategy among key actors for the delivery of health services in an integrated manner addressing humans animals and the environment. The environmental health component will aspire to balancesustain the integrity of soil vegetation water and air as well as the ecological processes of the rangeland ecosystem. The One Health approach will support governments and the private sector in testingproving how service delivery can be diversified and adapted to the needs of communities. Service providers will be capacitated to respond to their constituencies in an equitable manner. The project will comprise a crisis modifier combining emergency aid and development in order to respond to the vulnerability of the targeted communities and recurrent naturalmanmade disasters in the region. The specific needs of both women and girls as well as of men and boys will be met. Swiss expertise and network base in One Health are crucial for the promotion of service delivery that works for pastoralists. Through the HEAL project Switzerland will contribute