how funders’ perspectives have helped to shape the field a reflection paediatric palliative care...
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How funders’ perspectives have helped to shape the field
a reflection
Paediatric Palliative Care Funders’ Meeting
Rome
1st December 2012
Outline
• Short Introduction to the Fund and the Palliative Care Initiative
• How much influence have funders had and is this a good thing?
• The Initiative and children’s palliative care• The importance of collaboration: the Funders’
Collaborative for Children, Malawi and the Waterloo Coalition
• How far are the funding lessons from Africa applicable globally?
The Fund
• The Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund is a spend-out foundation focused on social justice– The Palliative Care Initiative in sub-Saharan
Africa– Refugees and Asylum Seekers– Prison Reform and the ban of cluster
munitions
The Palliative Care Initiative
• Established 2001 with a focus on seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa
• Overall objective to establish palliative care as part of the continuum of care for people with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-limiting illnesses
• Areas of activity: education, support of pc organisations, advocacy, research, access to medicines
• Learning through evaluation
Funder Influence – a good thing?
• Yes! if the influence is the result of an evidence-based strategy
• Consciously sought to influence at policy and practical level with a strong belief that a strategic and outcome focused approach is best
• Why is this important?
- Better result for people requiring palliative care
- Sustainable change
Children’s Palliative Care
• Came later to this area of work
• Focus on education
• Chose to confine work to South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda for Children’s Beacon Centres and Kenya and Malawi for the Waterloo Coalition
Beacon Centres
• Three countries
• Establish as centres of excellence South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda
• Teach nationally and then regionally
PCI Children’s Palliative Care (CPC) Development
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT2
CPC CURRICULA 1. Children’s Palliative Care (CPC) course
3 levels: Academic –
o Post Grad Diploma @ UCT (12 months) o Msc Research Training (24 months)
Vocational – o Certificate course (2 wks & 2 wks
placement or 8-10 months) E-learning –
o ICPCN bite-sized modules/ web learning resources
2. Training of Trainers (ToT) course OTHER CPC PUBLICATIONS
3. Paediatric Palliative Care Toolkit 4. Children’s Palliative Care in Africa Textbook 5. Training Package on home-based palliative
care for children under seven with HIV and their primary caregivers (Alan Stein, Oxford Uni)
E V A L U A T I O N
TBC
HPCA South Africa4
1 Champion P/T5
To train:
100 people - Yr 1 100 people - Yr 2 100 people – Yr 3
3 yr grant
TBC
Mildmay Uganda3
2 Champions5
To train:
60 people - Yr 1 60 people - Yr 2 30 people - Yr 3
3 yr grant
TBC
PASADA Tanzania3
2 Champions5
To train:
60 people - Yr 1 60 people - Yr 2 30 people - Yr 3
3 yr grant
BLUE = PCI DEVELOPMENT GREEN = PCI GRANT FUNDING
C O R E
G R O U
P1
DELIVER TRAINING IN OWN SETTINGS
ToT TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
OF CPC CENTRES
CPC TRAINING & CLINICAL EXCELLENCE CENTRES
Wider Links International Children’s Palliative Care Network6 * APCA Clinical Handbooks * Coalition on Children Affected by AIDS (ICPCN) (CCABA)
Teach CPC Course
TeachToT Course
Post Training Support
Resource Development
EXTERNAL
Review of current CPC in sub-Saharan
Africa (Baseline) –
Richard Harding, King’s
CPC training needs analysis & assessment of CPC training
course- Godfrey
Agupio, HAU
Overall Evaluator
(TBC)
INTERNAL
Ongoing Monitoring7 & Evaluation -
Justin Amery &
Joan Marston, HPCA
Resources
• The aim: ‘surround the child' with care, ensuring access to a range of high-quality services which will provide a foundation on which a child can thrive as a child and then as an adult. Its strategy is to strengthen local and district level systems, develop effective referral processes and promote improved collaboration at all levels, between projects and local civil society, regional districts and national government
The benefits of collaboration
“In my experience these kinds of initiatives are borne out of people who have the courage to look at familiar problems in a different way, and who can engage others to come on board. There were key individuals associated with each of the four funding agencies who instinctively knew that existing approaches to tackling HIV simply weren't delivering well enough. The conversation between these individuals evolved over a period of time until we had some sense of what a different approach might look like.” Richard Graham Comic Relief
The Waterloo Coalition
• In 2011, The Fund and The True Colours Trust each provided £300,000 towards a time limited initiative to significantly improve access to palliative care in Malawi and Kenya, to help strengthen government health systems to deliver sustainable palliative care.
• Other members of the Coalition: the African Palliative Care Association, the Global Access to Pain Relief Initiative, the International Children's Palliative Care Network and the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, each of whom provided technical support and expert advice.
• The Coalition funded the Kenya Hospice and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) and the Palliative Care Support Trust in Malawi led by Umodzi
Integration at local structural level
• “There are many different priorities for us and not many resources. Being shown what palliative care is and why this will help make services better is good. We need to know how palliative care can be offered without using a lot more resources and how doing this will help the local people.” (senior manager)
…and national level
•“STEP UP is helping us get things done faster. They are our friend. Instead of doing things slowly ourselves, STEP UP is helping us go quickly… We work together.” (government official from Malawi)
Advantages
• Potentially game-changing• Can take a more holistic approach which is
needed due to the complexity• Working at scale, gives an ability to influence
the bigger players• a wealth of knowledge, experience and contacts
within a collaborative that can make the whole greater than the sum of its parts
• it makes it easier for grantee organisations only having to deal with one body
Limitations
• Need to have good in-country partners
• Capacity
• Political and economic environment
• Cannot move more quickly in most areas than its partners
• May not always agree with partners on the strategy
Global Lessons of this approach
• Benefits of a strategic approach
• Need to work with existing structures
• Choose the right partners
• Look beyond pc for partnerships and allies
• Be tenacious and persistent
• Use your advantages as a funder
• Resource it
Thank you
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