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Costing and Benefits of Comprehensive Care offered by the Valley Trust
Project Started : March 2008
Project Ends : June 2008
Lead Researcher : Suraya Dawad
Project Donor : JFA
Overview
The overarching goal of this project is to promote good health and quality of life through the principles of Primary Health-Care (PHC) and people-centred development. The Valley Trust, an NGO operating in KwaZulu-Natal's Valley of a Thousand Hills, offers a range of social programmes (including health, agriculture, ecology, nutrition) as elements of an integrated model described as "Comprehensive Care".
Our research objectives in this study are to examine the costs and benefits of these additional components. This will entail, firstly, establishing the cost of providing an activity per beneficiary for various services provided by Valley Trust and understanding the qualitative benefits of providing additional components of care, and secondly, understanding the current and future role of the NGO in providing comprehensive care.
As the burden of HIV/AIDS care requires more than mere provision of medical attention, priorities are being set to view more holistic models of support. Comprehensive primary health-care (CPHC) encompasses a curative purpose alongside efforts to address other determinants of health, such as access to safe water, proper sanitation income generation, nutrition and the like. Examining the Valley Trust's and various other programmes will provide deeper insight into how such models work, the links between the State and the organisation, and the extent to which their systems are valuable in replication elsewhere.
Research Questions
- The overarching objective is to look at costs and outcomes of one of the additional components of primary care offered by Valley Trust under the description of "comprehensive care".
- A further objective is to understand the role of the NGO in provision of comprehensive care (a development approach as opposed to a service delivery approach).
Strategic Questions
Falls into Programme 1 under Key drivers
Expected Knock-On
This is a very short project hence not much systems support…
Project Impact
By the end of this project we would like to make it clear to Valley Trust that the Rehabilitation Programme is working and is beneficial to the community and hence it needs to remain. Also we intend to use the results of this project to lobby for funds for this particular programme. Furthermore, we will have an understanding of the role of the NGO in providing comprehensive care.
Brief Description
The costing part of the project is currently being completed by Anokhi Parih. The qualitative data collection has been completed and should be ready for analysis by the end of May. Analysis and reporting should be completed by end of June.
Key Phases
| Started | Completed | Description |
|---|---|---|
| March 2008 | April 2008 | Data Collection |
| May 2008 | June 2008 | Data Analysis |
| May 2008 | June 2008 | Report Writing |
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