Select districts, Uganda (2018-2021)

Spark Health Africa team (left) with the Permanent Secretary of the Uganda Ministry of Health Dr Diane Atwine (3rd from left) and senior officials from the Uganda Ministry of health.

  • Transformative leadership and culture change program

  • 86 workshop attendees (2-day senior leadership workshop, 5-day health management team workshop)

  • Thought-partnership during on-the-job coaching across 10 health management teams

  • Key focus areas: COVID-19 emergency response, maternal, new-born and child health

Spark Health Africa in collaboration with the Ministry of Health implemented a competence-based coaching program in 10 selected districts to strengthen the government’s response to health systems challenges through a Transformative Leadership and Culture Change initiative.  

The first phase of the initiative ran from January 2019 to June 2020, and focused on improving maternal, new–born and child health indicators by influencing shifts in work culture through mentorship, coaching, and thought-partnership.  

The second phase of the initiative (July to December 2020) focused on building resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic by consolidating the gains made in Phase 1 by transitioning ownership to the MoH and further imbedding transformational thinking to ensure sustainability of the new work cultures developed by districts before the MoH scales up the initiative nationally. 

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