The COVID-19 pandemic placed extraordinary stress on the Kyrgyz Republic’s health system and health care providers, revealing the need for new approaches that would address the immediate needs brought on by the pandemic and contribute to the country’s health system resilience.

This report presents findings from December 2022 assessment of medical-grade liquid oxygen capabilities and availability for use in health facilities in the Kyrgyz Republic.

This brief presents the achievements of two NGOs that received grants to conduct risk communication and community engagement work under the LHSS Project in the Kyrgyz Republic. It examines the grants’ capacity strengthening impact on the two organizations, describes lessons learned, and provides recommendations for donors, implementing partners, and local government partners implementing similar programs.

This brief presents work completed under the LHSS Kyrgyz Republic Activity Intervention 4: Enhance Cold Chain System. LHSS worked with key government stakeholders, including the Republican Center of Immunoprophylaxis, to digitalize and update components of the country’s vaccine registry and complement these updates by adding additional functionalities for cold chain tracking and management.

Civil society organizations in Timor-Leste are playing important roles to identify health system problems and solutions, contribute ideas to the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) annual action plan, and participate in monitoring that holds the government accountable.

An LHSS grantee in Colombia helps Venezuelan migrants understand how to obtain health services -- while gaining valuable knowledge and skills to strengthen its own organizational capacity.

Since its establishment in 2022, REBAS-TL has promoted civil society engagement with the country’s health sector to strengthen health outcomes for the Timorese people. 

Rede Ba Saúde Timor-Leste (REBAS-TL), the country's first-ever health CSO network, celebrated its one-year anniversary on May 5, 2023 highlighting the network's achievements to date. 

A Timorese NGO is helping the Ministry of Health provide accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccine, resulting in increased vaccination in target municipalities.

On April 27, 2023, local actors met to celebrate achievements, discuss challenges and opportunities, and highlight advances in sustainable integration of the Venezuelan migrant population, Colombian returnees, and host communities.

The purpose of this report is to document the capacity strengthening process to promote the inclusion of the migrant population into the health system after almost one year of implementation. This process has already produced several products and results that can be replicated in other organizations and entities. The products and learnings here can be applied both for the inclusion of the migrant population into the health system and to strengthen the health system for the general population.

This Spanish document presents the main results and progress that were made toward sustainability. Notably, the process of strengthening organizational capacities of Healthy Communities is aligned with USAID's CLA1 management approach. This document will be constituted as a succinct report of the process of strengthening organizational capacities that serves as a reference and technical element of consultation that contribute to organizational development processes.

This summary describes the principal results of the assessment and LHSS’s successes thus far in supporting its counterparts in strengthening their capacity in a sustainable manner. This brief report can serve as a reference or technical input for consultation, thus contributing to the organizational-capacity strengthening process.

This document contains the strategy proposal for the design and implementation of health observatories with a perspective on international human mobility, with countries interested in forming a network of observatories that contribute to generating knowledge about migratory flows and their relationship with health, as well as influencing the construction of regional public policies on migration and health among countries.

This Spanish proposal will generate knowledge about migratory flows and their relationship with health and influence the development of regional public policies on migration and health.