AFENET Projects: Past and Present
Graded by Funding Period
AFENET implements multi-country and national public health projects through cooperative agreements, grants, and strategic partnerships. Below is a summary of key projects grouped by funding period, highlighting AFENET’s evolving role in strengthening health security, workforce development, surveillance, and emergency response across Africa.
🔹 October 2023 – September 2024 (Most Recent)
Focus Areas
- Public health workforce surge and secondments
- Disease surveillance and epidemic preparedness
- Immunization systems strengthening
- Health data, research, and policy support
- One Health, NCDs, and mental health
Key Highlights
- Cooperative Agreements: GID, Nigeria NPHI, DRC GHSA, Sierra Leone Lab, Networking, NTD
- Expanded environmental and enhanced surveillance in Nigeria
- Workforce secondment and staffing support to Africa CDC
- Immunization and EPI data strengthening in multiple countries
- Major research and surveillance initiatives on Mpox, Lassa fever, Cholera, Mental Health, and AMR
- Continued support to FETP (Frontline, Intermediate, Advanced) across several countries
- Strategic conferences, including CPHIA and continental scientific meetings
Key Partners: Africa CDC, WHO, Gavi, UNICEF, BMGF, Wellcome Trust, CEPI, CDC Foundation, Vital Strategies, UNDP
🔹 October 2022 – September 2023
Focus Areas
- COVID-19 recovery and transition programming
- Workforce development and surge support
- Health economics and policy translation
- Risk communication and community engagement
Key Highlights
- Support to Africa CDC Health Economics Programme
- Deployment of health workers for Ebola response in Uganda
- Strengthening National Action Plans for Health Security (Liberia)
- Expansion of Data for Health (CRVS & mortality surveillance)
- Frontline FETP implementation in fragile and emergency settings
- RCCE and community engagement initiatives in West and Central Africa
Key Partners: Mastercard Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, KOICA, BMGF, UNICEF, WHO, Gavi
🔹 October 2021 – September 2022
Focus Areas
- COVID-19 emergency response
- Vaccine delivery and rollout
- Surveillance and health systems resilience
- Institutional strengthening at Africa CDC
Key Highlights
- Continent-wide COVID-19 response and vaccination support
- Enhanced AFP, polio, and vaccine surveillance
- Risk communication initiatives for COVID-19
- Support to Africa CDC PAVM Secretariat
- Expansion of immunization and surveillance capacity in fragile settings
- Workforce secondments to Africa CDC and AU institutions
Key Partners: Africa CDC, UNAIDS, Ford Foundation, BMGF, UNICEF, Vital Strategies, Gavi
🔹 October 2020 – September 2021
Focus Areas
- Early COVID-19 preparedness and response
- Establishment of revolving outbreak funds
- Health data systems and mortality surveillance
- Immunization and laboratory systems strengthening
Key Highlights
- Rapid mortality surveillance across multiple African countries
- COVID-19 preparedness and response programming
- Strengthening PHEOCs and outbreak response systems
- Early investments in Data for Health initiatives
- Support to vaccine introduction and immunization data quality
- Workforce surge and deployment mechanisms
Key Partners: Africa CDC, CDC Foundation, BMGF, Gavi, Jhpiego, UNICEF, OSF
🌍 Cross-Cutting Impact Across All Periods
Across all funding cycles, AFENET has consistently:
- Built and strengthened field epidemiology and public health workforce
- Supported Africa CDC and national public health institutes
- Enhanced disease surveillance, preparedness, and response
- Improved data use for decision-making
- Advanced One Health, immunization, and health security agendas