Regional East African Community Health -Policy Initiative (REACH-PI)

Goal

To improve people€™s health and health equity in East Africa through more evidence-based health policies

Mission

To access, synthesise, package and communicate evidence required for policy and practice. To influence policy relevant research agendas for improved population health and health equity

Operational objectives

• Managing fora involving policy makers and researchers
• Facilitating access to research
• Commissioning syntheses of research of high policy relevance
• Packaging research syntheses for high policy impact
• Communicating and advocating to inform policy and research agendas
• Strengthening regional capacity for knowledge translation
• Monitoring and evaluation of REACH-Policy Initiative and the impact on policy change and trends of key indicators.

Implementation Strategy

• The centre shall act as an independent knowledge broker between researchers and policy makers
• Obtain research findings in the region and beyond especially for key priority health challenges in the region
• Synthesize the information
• Package the synthesized information for
• influencing health policy and practice
• Communicate through knowledge translation products such as policy briefs, evidence summaries, etc.
• Monitor the impact on policy change and
• Trends of key indicators
• Formulate research priorities based on
• Policy concerns and vice-versa  

Current Governance Structure   

In the interim, is a tripartite committee with members from the 3 original EAC partner states. Its€™ mandate expires with the launch of the East African Health Research Commission

Management

• Lean secretariat with flexibility for continued consultant utilization
• Substantive Chief Executive of the Institution who will be assisted by technical officers, the number of whom will be determined by the governance committee