Success in Africa

Email: contact@success-in-africa.org

Strategic Health Solutions

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We enhance health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa for universal health coverage and improved outcomes.

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Our services include research, policy analysis, and capacity building for health system strengthening.

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We provide expert insights and recommendations to foster collaboration and drive health innovations.

Health System Innovations

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Universal Coverage Initiatives

We develop innovative strategies to enhance health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, aiming for universal health coverage through collaborative projects and evidence-based solutions tailored to local needs.

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Collaborative Research Projects

Our research initiatives focus on understanding health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa, fostering partnerships to generate actionable insights that drive improvements in health systems and policy development.

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Capacity Building Programs

We offer training and capacity-building programs designed to empower local health professionals and organizations, enhancing their skills and knowledge to effectively address health system challenges in their communities.

Our Expertise

At Success in Africa, we bring together a highly qualified, multidisciplinary team of professionals — including public health experts, clinicians, social scientists, economists, engineers, legal specialists, and health systems architects. This diversity of backgrounds allows us to address complex health challenges from every angle.

Our pillars of expertise

✔ Health systems strengthening

  • Improving the organization, delivery, and financing of health services to ensure equitable access and high quality of care.
  • Supporting hospital policy and management reforms.
  • Advancing total quality assurance as an integral part of all health system processes.

✔ Disease control & prevention

  • Tackling communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and expanding immunization programs for vaccine-preventable illnesses.
  • Designing and monitoring comprehensive strategies that integrate promotion, prevention, and care.

✔ Health promotion & integration across policies

  • Embedding health into all public policies to drive true health sector development.
  • Strengthening community engagement to ensure that demand and supply sides of care interact effectively.

✔ Sexual & reproductive health rights

  • Advancing the right to accessible, high-quality sexual and reproductive health services for all.

✔ Epidemic surveillance & response

  • Enhancing integrated disease surveillance systems.
  • Developing multisectoral epidemic preparedness and disaster management plans.
  • Building national capacities to respond to health emergencies.

✔ Health financing & performance-based funding (PBF)

  • Designing and evaluating equitable health financing strategies, including contextualized PBF approaches.
  • Supporting the development and implementation of financial protection mechanisms.

✔ Global health & health sector reforms

  • Advising on reforms aligned with global health priorities and local needs.
  • Facilitating alignment between international interventions, national health policies, and local realities.

✔ Health & climate change

  • Integrating climate resilience into health planning and ensuring systems can adapt to environmental challenges.

✔ Health systems in fragile contexts

  • Revitalizing health systems in settings affected by instability, conflict, or disasters.

✔ Epidemiology, research & teaching

  • Conducting operational and implementation research, developing training curricula, and supervising advanced degrees (MSc/MPH, PhD).
  • Guiding the publication of scientific work to inform global and national health strategies.

Our cross-cutting commitments

  • Equity: We make it an explicit goal in all our support — from financing (vertical equity) to service delivery (horizontal equity).
  • Gender: Integrated as a transversal priority across all our areas of work.