Region
Africa
Focus Areas
- Adolescents & Youth
- Contraception & Family Planning
- HIV & AIDS
- Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
- Primary Health Care
- Safe & Comprehensive Health Care
Approaches
- Country-Led Strategy: A Foundation for Localization
- Digital Health Innovation
- Fragile & Crisis Settings
- Health Systems Strengthening
- Local Capacity Strengthening
- Social & Behavior Change
Pathfinder works to ensure that all Ethiopians have the ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights. Pathfinder has a long history of partnering with the government to bring quality health care services to millions of people in urgent need. Across the country, Pathfinder has strengthened health infrastructure, trained and mentored the health workforce, and ensured that all people get the care they need, including maternal and newborn care, cervical cancer screenings and prevention, and reproductive health care.
Health Systems Strengthening
Pathfinder has strengthened the health system at all levels and trained the health workforce so that they can deliver quality, holistic care—for sexual and reproductive health, maternal and newborn health, contraception, and cervical cancer prevention. This work includes strengthening key systems and the quality of services to be equitable and responsive to the unique needs of adolescent, youth, women, girls, and those with special needs—including within the health, education, livelihoods, and child protection sectors.
Health Equity for Vulnerable Communities
Pathfinder supports those who are most marginalized from care, such as young people, and gender-based violence and obstetric fistula survivors. We work across multiple sectors and at individual, community, and systems levels to empower adolescent girls and mobilize communities, addressing the barriers that so often prevent people from accessing health care, such as gender inequality and poverty.
Sustainability
Pathfinder builds the skills of local health workers and government officials so that our impact continues long after our support ends. Pathfinder’s systems-level support, for example, expanded access to community-based health insurance and led to the scale-up of youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health care across the country. Pathfinder also supports health facilities to restore or continue provision of services during emergencies, including emergency response, stabilization, and development.
