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Founder: Professor Sir Dr Eldryd Parry

Registration no: 1113101 Founded: 1988

Location: 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AG, Zambia, Somaliland

Area served: Asia and Africa

Focus Partnerships for Global Healthcare: Strengthening health care services and skills in Asia and Africa

Mission: To help improve the basic health services of the poorest countries building long term capacity

Website: www.thet.org

THET (Tropical Health and Education Trust) An international development organisation working to improve health services in developing countries through harnessing the expertise and experience of UK health professionals THET promotes action that is effective, sustainable and responsive.

What We Do THET’S main streams of work facilitate institutional health partnerships between hospitals and training institutions in developing countries and their UK counterparts; pilot sustainable models of accessible healthcare; continue to be a voice for health partnerships and advocate high standards and quality agendas for health policy in the UK and internationally; and strive to increase the quality and impact of health partnerships by capturing shared lessons from Health Partnerships.

THET has clear values and operating principles. Chief among these are a commitment to effective long term partnerships for international development. THET listens and responds to priorities identified by partners in developing countries and will not impose its own. THET believes in the crucial importance of training, motivating and empowering people who deliver health care.

Today THET mission is to help improve basic health services in the poorest countries, building long term capacity through training and support.

History THET was established in 1988 by Professor Eldryd Parry (LINK REQUIRED), to address the substantial needs of medical schools and hospitals in developing countries. In particular, Parry believed it was necessary to respond to the significant gaps in undergraduate and postgraduate health education – nursing, midwifery, pharmacy, laboratory science and many other disciplines.

Ongoing Work At present, THET’s own programme work is focused in Somaliland and Zambia.

Somaliland – THET began working in Somaliland in 2000 after establishing the Kings/THET/Somaliland Partnership. The Link has focussed on training staff to improve standards of care and providing academic support to the medical school curriculum. Work soon expanded to include health institutions, professional associations, regional health authorities and the Ministry of Health and Labour. Read more about our programme work in Somaliland.

Zambia - THET has been appointed the management agent for a project aimed at strengthening the capacity of Zambia health training institutions to train health workers. This is funded by the Department for International Development, but has had significant support from the Department of Health who provided support for the initial scoping of the proposal. Read more about our programme work in Zambia.

International Health Link Funding Scheme (IHLFS) - The IHLFS is a 3-year scheme that provides grants, information and support to Health Links. Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DfID) and the Department of Health (DH), it is jointly managed by THET and the British Council. The Scheme makes £1.25 million available to support the work of Health Links each year. The primary purpose of the Scheme is to build the capacity of developing country health services.

Health Partnerships Scheme In July 2011 THET were awarded the contract for a major new programme to help develop the skills of health workers in some of the world’s poorest countries. THET's delivery of the Health Partnership Scheme is done in consortium with HLSP, an international health sector consultancy.

Funded by the UK government’s Department for International Development, the Health Partnership Scheme works to harness the expertise of UK health professionals to improve health outcomes by transferring skills and supporting skills development in low income countries, as well as through promoting UK involvement in volunteering. Activities will be wide-ranging and include training and capacity-building for staff, providing practical skills, continuing professional development, and curriculum development.

The Health Partnership Scheme awards grants in three areas:

◦Multi-Country Partnership grants – for effectively leveraging the knowledge and expertise from UK health partners in areas of health system strengthening and contribute towards meeting the Millennium Development Goal 4, 5, and 6 targets through projects with transformational impact.

◦Paired Institutional Partnership grants – for the delivery of effective health partnership projects, encouraging reach into under-served and rural areas, and improving health outcomes over a broad thematic and geographical spread.

◦Long-term volunteering grants – for the placement of UK volunteers who will support the delivery of projects. Placements are for a minimum of six months and the focus is on health system strengthening and contributing towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6 targets through Human Resources for Health capacity development.

Trustees

Professor Sir Andy Haines, Professor Eldryd Parry (Founder), Professor Parveen Kumar, Dr Michael Pelly, Dr Colin Brown, Mr Olujimi Coker, Mr Andrew Leather, Dr Peter Homa, Ms Maura Buchanan, Mr David Cutler and Mr Jim Conybeare-Cross.

Our Supporters

Alistair Berkley Trust Beit Trust Comic Relief Department for International Development European Union? Do we say Commission Des Communaute? Evan Cornish Foundation Father O'Mahoney Memorial Trust Hazel M Wood's Charitable Trust Headley Trust Johnson & Johnson Morrison G M Charitable Trust Owlswick Trust Population Services International Scouloudi Foundation Sir Halley Stewart Trust