Santé pour le Développement et la Stabilité d’Haïti (SDSH) — Pwojè Djanm
Project Date: 2007–2010
MSH’s Santé pour le Développement et la Stabilité d’Haïti (SDSH) Project—known as Pwojé Djanm (“robust project”) in Creole—and its all-Haitian team are working to increase availability of essential social services, reduce internal conflict, enable productive livelihoods that contribute to Haiti’s economic development, and build capacity as the foundation for progress.
MSH and its partners will continue to support local service delivery NGOs by using performance-based contracts, a proven way to reinforce innovation and accountability; these NGOs will go on to become additional sources of technical assistance. Pwojé Djanm's focus is on supporting decentralization, strengthening public-sector capacity in service delivery, and supporting local NGO service delivery by leveraging funding from the commercial sector and other donors.
Pwojé Djanm is an MSH-led collaboration of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communications Programs (CCP), AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), JHPIEGO, and Fondation pour la Santé Reproductrice et l’Education Familiale (FOSREF) with USAID, the Government of Haiti, local NGOs, community leaders, and the commercial private sector. Together, MSH and its partners will use improvements in the health sector as a catalyst for greater social and political stability.