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REACH Trust's Projects - Consultancies

  • Harmonised Approach To Cash Transfers (HACT)

    A consultant from the UN systems visited Reach Trust to carry out a Micro assessment.
    This is done to a potential Implementing Partner (IP). Reach Trust has found its feet into
    the system following a program yet to funded by UNICEF on safe motherhood. The Trust will
    implement the program through LATH Umoyo and Liverpool School of Tropical medicine. A micro
    assessment is the system of assessing adequacy of the implementing partner`s (IP) financial
    management system and internal controls. The report establishes a level of risk rating that
    leads to the modality of direct cash transfer (DCT).A part from partnering with UN agencies the
    Trust will benefit from the HACT by:

    • Switching from system of controls to a risk management approach.
    • Decreasing the complexity of procedures and reduces transaction costs.
    • Increasing overall effectiveness of intervention focusing on programme
      needs than administrative processes.
    • Emphasising on the importance of development and objectives.

  • Evaluation of OSISA’s funding to Dignitas International, 2009, OSISA

    The evaluation reviewed the impact of OSISA’s funding to Dignitas International,a Canadian
    NGO working in Zomba. Dignitas is implementing a HIV/AIDS programme in Zomba which
    endeavours to improve patient care and develop low-cost,evidence-based and community-
    based models of care. The consultants reviewed the impact of OSISA’s funding to inform
    the next steps in the partnership between OSISA and Dignitas International.

  • Assessment of food take home rations on orphans and vulnerable children,

    This study used qualitative and quantitative community- and household-level research,
    including 600 household surveys and 60 in depth interviews. The study considered how
    far the programme was reaching its objectives and whether the programme’s focus on
    the different target groups was appropriate and balanced. Practical recommendations for
    implementation were made which balanced the multiple objectives of the project with
    crucial questions of scale and equity and existing capacity realities

  • Maximising synergies between global health initiatives and health systems
    strengthening, 2009, WHO

    • The purpose of this project is to build new knowledge regarding the interactions between
    global health initiatives and national health systems. This includes identifying best
    practices for maximising positive synergies between disease specific programmes and
    health systems strengthening. The ultimate aim is to formulate recommendations for
    WHO to guide member countries in efforts to maximise synergies between GHIs and
    health systems strengthening.

  • Support to GFATM impact study.

    REACH Trust supported the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria’s Impact Study in
    Malawi with an assessment of TB and ART patients and co-ordination of data analysis.

  • Aid for AIDS:How community groups negotiate the funding architecture

    This study aimed to understand the impact of multiple major vertical global and bilateral
    international financing structures on local, district-level and national responses.

  • Evaluation of TB Alert Project, 2009.

    The National TB Control Programme, with the support of TB Alert, implemented a contact
    tracing project in Mzimba district in 2006. REACH Trust won a contract to carry out an
    evaluation of the project and also to evaluate the institutional capacity of a local CBO.





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