The USAID Projects in India

1. Support USAID India Health Office to be a thought leader in the health sector by creating strong and convincing narrative, projects and alliances.

1. Supporting the USAID/India Health Office goal of contributing to India’s Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR)

2. Supporting cross-learnings and collaboration among USAID implementing partners(IP) and across the sector to ensure synergy, growth, and positive health outcomes

3. Supporting innovations and new initiatives that drive health goals and impact

Under the USAID’s Knowledge Partner for Health grant, L4i supports USAID and its partners to understand and use Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) at the portfolio and grant level and to ensure that portfolio impact results can be captured. L4i facilitates and nurtures partnerships between USAID grantees working on health to promote cross-learning and improve effectiveness between projects. It supports the HO with products, evidence and tools that can help push the needle or nudge the sector in bringing about transformative change, resource mobilization or doing business differently in order to achieve positive health impact particularly for the needy and vulnerable households and communities. L4i develops and synthesizes actionable insights for program and policy design and to guide investments. It uses learnings drawn from the health sector to design new approaches to scale and expand the impact of USAID programs. The overall goal of the project is to ensure results, impact and sustainability.

L4i has developed a COVID microsite, under the L4i platform, as a repository of risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) materials. The microsite also contains details on the latest guidelines and advisories released by the centre as well as other credible authorities in health such as WHO, CDC, and UNICEF to aid the COVID-19 response. The microsite is regularly updated with IEC materials, including information on COVID-19 numbers and vaccination statuses.