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Transformative Leadership to Drive Africa’s Health Systems Strengthening Agenda.
Spark Health Africa is thrilled to announce the appointment of Gayle Northrop as the new Chair of its Board of Directors. A visionary leader with unparalleled expertise in social impact, systems change, and governance, Gayle brings decades of experience in fostering transformative leadership and advancing innovative s…
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Spark Health Africa and TECDEN, with funding from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, have agreed to work in partnership to support the Government of Tanzania’s initiatives to enhance the Early Childhood Development ecosystem. Through this initiative we will work c…
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Through this grant, Spark Health Africa will support the operationalization of the National Multisectoral Early Childhood Development Program in Tanzania as well as provide Technical Assistance in the Scaling of Early Childhood Development initiatives in the Lake Region Economic …
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Hot off the press! Envisioning statement by the Hilton Foundation ECD Partners – “It is 2050, and the gains being shown were sown in 2023 by Hilton Foundation’s ECD Partners at the Collective Impact Workshop conducted in Nairobi.” This envisioning statement was developed by Kenya…
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Zomba Central Hospital
Transformative leadership and culture change program67 workshop attendees (2-day senior leadership workshop, 5-day health management team workshop)12 months of thought partnership during remote coaching across 4 health management teamskey focus areas: …
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Introduction
Tsholotsho District is one of seven districts from Matebeleland North Province that participated in a Spark Health Africa Transformative Leadership & Culture Change Initiative in Zimbabwe. The intervention ran from January 2017 to December 2018. In Tsholotsho …
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The Ugandan Ministry of Health partnered with Spark Health Africa in 2018 to conduct a transformative leadership and culture change initiative. The transformation journey for district health management teams starts with instructive training on a suite of modules covering manageme…
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South Africa’s Eastern Cape Department of Health collaborated with Spark Health Africa in 2012 to embark on a Transformative Leadership and Culture Change (TLCC) initiative. Using the competencies that they developed as part of this initiative the provincial management team impro…
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The term ”team” is often used to describe what would more accurately be defined as a workgroup. Workgroups are people brought together by a goal in space and time. To truly become a team, a workgroup would need to be aligned.
In donor-dependent countries with multiple stak…
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