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Our Current Partnerships

Increase Gains in Nutrition by Integration, Education, Evaluation, Empowerment (IGNIT3)

Increase Gains in Nutrition by Integration, Education, Evaluation, Empowerment (IGNIT3) is a sustainable capacity-building project that was launched in Ghana with support from the Ghana Health Service and Ministry of Health on December 7, 2023.

In Ghana, IGNTI3 project collaborators are The Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), WaterAid, and the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives. Each of the project partners will provide technical, programmatic, and research expertise that will drive sustainable change.

With funding from the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada, IGNIT3 aims to improve nutrition for women, adolescent girls, and children over a span of five years (2023 to 2028) through targeted, integrated nutrition, health, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programming. Over $4 million Cdn of IGNIT3 funding is allocated to Ghana to support programming which is expected to impact more than 30,000 people including health workers, women, children, and adolescent girls.

Key Project Objectives

Through capacity-building activities, IGNIT3 will have national reach in Ghana alongside targeted interventions implemented in the Upper West and Greater Accra regions and other key regions.  Activities that will be undertaken include:

  1. Accredited online and in-person training modules and education programs for various cadres of health workers, including clinical officers, dieticians, nurses, midwives, and community health workers, in high-burden communities.
  2. Infrastructure investments in key health facilities (i.e. WASH and breast-feeding corners) and at the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives to support the roll-out and adoption of the proposed programming.
  3. Targeted research and evaluation to assess how integrating specific health, WASH, and nutrition interventions can result in improved outcomes for marginalized communities and contribute to the global evidence base.

SickKids

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Canada;

5-year Paediatric Nursing Education Partnership Programme (PNEP) (2015-2020) which led to the training of 501 Paediatric Nurses, 2-year COVID-19 Response (2021-2023), which led to the training of 16,918 Healthcare Professionals on COVID-19 Prevention, Care and Vaccine acceptance (Virtual – 15,192 and in-person – 1,726).

The Project saw the distribution of PPEs for Clinical attendance and Public education through community outreach programmes which also led to the coverage of 115,522 unique individuals. Currently, SickKids is the process of Launching its new 5-year-long project on Increasing Gains in Nutrition through Education, Evaluation and Empowerment (IGNIT3). This would see the College serve as the key implementing partner in Ghana.

Our Past Partnerships

Ghana Paediatric Nursing Education Partnership (PNEP)

This project was aimed at reducing death and illness among newborns and children in underserved Districts in Ghana.

ROCHE Africa Foundation

Roche African Foundation and Roch Pharmaceuticals, Ghana:
Sponsorship and training of 36 Oncology Nurse Specialists, 13 Palliative Nurse Specialist and 1 Nephrology Nurse.

Johnson & Johnson

Trained 23 Mental Health Nurse Specialist in 2021.

World Child Cancer

Trained 29 Paediatric Oncology Nurses at the Associate Membership Level.

KYBELE

Kybele is a global leader in health-systems strengthening, internationally recognized for improving the quality and safety of childbirth in low- and middle-income countries.