DDDA'S Health Program

The Dire Dawa Development Association (DDDA) recognizes the importance of health in achieving socio-economic development in the region. To this end, we have developed a comprehensive health program that aims to improve the health outcomes of our community and contribute to the overall well-being of our region.

The roles of DDDA in health service

Health services

  • Service provision;
  • Facilitating community interactions with services;
  • Distributing health resources such as condoms,
  • bed nets, or cement for toilets; and
  • Building health worker moral and support.

Health promotion and information exchange

  • Obtaining and disseminating health information;
  • Building informed public choice on health;
  • Implementing and using health research;
  • Helping to shift social attitudes; and
  • Mobilizing and organizing for health.

Policy setting

  • Representing public and community interests in policy;
  • Promoting equity and pro-poor policies;
  • Negotiating public health standards and approaches;
  • Building policy consensus, disseminating policy positions;
  • Enhancing public support for policies

 

Resource mobilization and allocation

  • Financing health services;
  •  Raising community preferences in resource allocation;
  • Mobilizing and organizing community co-financing of services;
  • Promoting pro-poor and equity concerns in resource allocation;
  • Building public accountability and transparency in raising, allocating and managing resources.

Monitoring quality of care and responsiveness

  • Monitoring responsiveness and quality of health services;
  • Giving voice to marginalized groups, promoting equity;
  • Representing patient rights in quality of care issues;
  • Channeling and negotiating patient complaints and claims