Developing a Migrant-Sensitive Health Service Delivery Model to Reach Miners in Upper Guinea

  • Start Date
    2022
  • End Date
    2023
  • Project Status
    Completed
  • Project Type
    Health Promotion and Assist for Migrants
  • Budget Amount (USD)
    100000.00
  • Coverage
    National
  • Year
    2022
  • IDF Region
    Africa
  • Prima ID
    GN10P0564
  • Projects ID
    MA.0535
  • Benefiting Member States
    Guinea
The prefecture of Siguiri is located in the Kankan administrative region in Upper Guinea, where artisanal gold extraction attracts high volumes of migrants arriving from within Guinea, as well as from other countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, etc.) in search of opportunities. The Kankan region is particularly vulnerable to communicable diseases and communities have limited access to basic social infrastructures, such as health facilities. These factors exacerbate the existing vulnerabilities of migrants in securing their fundamental right to health. In light of the above, the objective of the project is to contribute to improving the health status of migrants, mobile populations and hard-to-reach persons in the mining areas of the Siguiri Prefecture of Guinea. The project will seek to do so by creating a new health service delivery model to easily reach the migrant population of Siguiri. To that end, the project will lead the Ministry of Health to endorse a new gender-sensitive health service delivery model in line with the National Community Health Strategy of Guinea (Outcome 1) by documenting the main factors contributing to low access to essential health services for migrants in mining areas in Siguiri, taking into account gender considerations (Output 1.1) and by developing a new gender-sensitive health service delivery model (Output 1.2). Additionally, the project will allow migrants, mobile populations and hard-to-reach groups in mining zones in Siguiri to access a comprehensive and gender-sensitive one-stop health service package (Outcome 2) by making available to migrants, mobile populations and hard-to-reach groups in mining areas in Siguiri a comprehensive and gender-sensitive health package for communicable diseases (Output 2.1) and by strengthening the knowledge of communities and key stakeholders on the new health service delivery model in Siguiri (Output 2.2).