Evaluering
Capacity Building within Healthcare (CBH) – End term Evaluation Report
Capacity Building within Healthcare (CBH) is a project implemented in Somaliland by the Norwegian Lutheran Mission (NLM) operating under the local name Nooleynta Naruurada Mustaqbalka (NNM). The project has been piloted since 2008/9 - 2011 in partnership with Somaliland Ministry of Health, Edna Adan Hospital, Hargeisa Group Hospital and the University of Hargeisa Medical Faculty.The Somaliland Republic is faced with the challenges of providing necessary basic conditions to facilitate preventive and curative health care services to its population during this phase of reconstruction that followed the destruction caused by the civil war of 1988-91. The following are some of the problems in the Somaliland healthcare systems; inadequate or lack of regular remuneration of healthcare workers, poorly equipped hospitals and movement of doctors from public hospitals to private practice leaving the poorer part of the population with no access to healthcare services. These were the main reasons to initiate the project. The immediate beneficiaries of the CBH project’s pilot phase were the medical and nursing students, clinical workers at partner hospitals and academic staff at health teaching institutions. The projects’ long term beneficiaries were the general population of Somaliland with particular focus on mothers and children. The evaluation sought to address the following issues regarding the project relevance and the effectiveness of the approaches used by the CBH project, the scope and focus of the project, viability of the options for using the existing scripture mission structures to support the project, the utilization of resources and project implementation in the context of insecurity, overall impact of CBH in comparison to other projects implementing similar initiatives and possible recommendations related to future objectives.