Right to health in the Amazon region of Ecuador

Project area:

Putumayo Canton in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Period:

01.08.2023 - 31.01.2026

Partner:

Asociación Red Internacional de Organizaciones de Salud (RIOS).

Funding by:

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

What it is about:

The 30-month project will help ensure the right to health of 3120 people in the canton of Putumayo in the Ecuadorian Amazon; access to primary health care services will be expanded using an intercultural and gender-sensitive approach.
The project will strengthen the capacity of local health workers and community promoters to improve the care and detection of non-communicable diseases and malnutrition, adapted to the Kichwa cosmovision and with a gender-sensitive approach; improve logistics for the delivery of health care in communities and inter-institutional participation of the cantonal health network; support community promoters in legal entrenchment, development and implementation of work plans for local health committees; and promote awareness on prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases and malnutrition.

Examples of interventions:

Training of health workers in clinical practice guidelines, topics: Diabetes, hypertension and positive eating habits, governance, incorporating cross-cultural and gender approaches.

Introduction of a knowledge management system 

Provision of at least 70 basic care packages for the work of the health agents

5 workshops to implement the training plan for community epidemiological surveillance

Implementation of primary health care activities in the health centres and in the community.

Number of people reached:

Direct: 3,120 people