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The unit is responsible for three sectors: Health, Special-Needs Groups, and Integrated Interventions.

1. Health Sector

Focus on primary health care, with an emphasis on mother and child health care services.

Access of rural inhabitants to basic health services;
High Infant Mortality rates;
Endemic Disease;
Capacity of national health training facilities;
Availability and qualification of Health cadres in rural areas;
Management systems in health facilities;
Enhancing pro-poor cost recovery schemes for public services;
Enhancing the role of local communities and NGO's in the provision of health services.

SFD interventions in the health sector followed a new policy in 2000, which was based on lessons learned from SFD’s work in health during previous years. This policy emphasizes on issues of training health care professionals, mobilizing local communities to play an active role in the operation of services and supporting management and information systems in health facilities.
Hence, for communities which lack health facilities in the whole, SFD takes a gradual approach to its intervention.

 

2. Special-Needs Groups

Apart from the fact that SFD works mainly with poor communities, it has always been carfull to assure reaching vulnerable and socially excluded groups. Over the last three years, SFD has funded several projects targeting these groups. This experience helped build our knowledge and experience and expanded SFD’s understanding of relevant issues.

The experience gained along with SFD’s commitment to assure the access of all vulnerable groups to its resources and to lead to the decision to formalize its interventions by establishing a “Special-Need Groups Sector”. This program aims at social inclusion of groups in difficult circumstances.

The Sector has identified four groups: the disabled, the socially excluded (e.g. urban dwellers, psychiatric patients….), women at risk (e.g. women prisoners), and children at risk (e.g. orphans, children in conflict with the law , street children). This sector operates within a policy framework which:

Follows a social integration approach;
Seeks to empower beneficiaries so that they may represent themselves in formal organizations;
Follows a pro-active approach to mobilize vulnerable groups to benefit from SFD resources.

3. Integrated Interventions Sector

This program targets extremely poor rural and urban areas through multi-sectoral interventions that aim to integrate development through a comprehensive approach.

Focus:

Analysis of issues and design of interventions through comprehensive participation of concerned communities;
Establishing clear mid and long–term objectives;
Incorporating impact Assessment;
creation of abled social capital to lead its own development.

In addition to its responsibilities in the three sectors mentioned above, the SPU is responsible for mainstreaming gender issues and ensuring community participation throughout SFD's interventions and procedures.

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