Countries

We offer the following services to support your in-country projects.

Planning and engagement

▸  Situation analysis and needs assessment
▸  Action plan and road map
▸  Engagement and advocacy

Implementation

▸  Technical guidance
▸  Training
▸  Monitoring and evaluation

In-country experiences

Sigia Projects

Democratic Republic of the Congo

2021 Internal review of WHO response to the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Ebola outbreaks in the DRC. [ref]

Georgia

2020 Pilot test of an assessment tool of in-country Early Warning and Response capacities. [ref]

Kyrgyzstan

2023 Scoping review on risk-based approaches to international travel-related health measures and development of a related strategy and procedure for Kyrgyzstan. [ref]
2023 Mapping of surveillance and response activities in the human and animal health sectors and provision of tailored recommendations to strengthen one health surveillance for zoonotic diseases. [ref]
2022 Assessment of IHR capacities at points of entry to identify areas of improvement and remaining gaps, and priority activities to be put in place at short and medium term. [ref]
2021 Support the public health emergency operations centre through standard operating procedures and an integrated epidemiological platform. [ref]
2020 Situation analysis of the health information systems in use in the country and development of recommendations, list of specifications and requirements for an integrated information system. [ref]
2020 Pilot test of an assessment tool of in-country Early Warning and Response capacities. [ref]
2020 Development of recommendations and roadmap to implement a public health emergency operations centre in the country. [ref]
2020 Development of an interactive visualization dashboard for the Ministry of Health to monitor key indicators on the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak. [ref]

Past Experiences

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Alexandre Blake
2018 Support data collection for the vaccine effectiveness study during the Ebola outbreak in the Equator Province.
2017 Assessment of a predictive score of the occurrence of a measles outbreak and monitoring of the 2016-2017 measles outbreak.
2015 Study of the oral cholera vaccine effectiveness in Kalemie. [ref]
2015 Measles seroprevalence study in four health zones in Katanga. [ref]
Florentina Rafael
2015 Investigation of an epidemic of unknown etiology in the Ituri region. [ref]
José Guerra
2018 Development of R scripts and procedures for automatized data cleaning and production of graphics and maps at each of the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak area.

Georgia

Ibukun-Oluwa Abejirinde
2018 — 2020 Participation in the evaluation of the project RESULTS4TB. [ref]