The USAID Projects in India

Working with USAID, the Government of India (GOI), and local public and private sector stakeholders, SAMAGRA aims to create an urban health ecosystem that is responsive, affordable and equitable, and which provides quality preventive, promotive and curative primary health care for the urban poor, with a focus on women, girls, and other vulnerable populations.

The SAMAGRA program aims to create a total market for comprehensive, consumer-empowered primary health. The aim is to improve family planning (FP), maternal and child health services tailored to the urban poor by employing iterative decision-making throughout the program design and implementation that relies on stakeholder engagement. The project aims to share learning in new ways and build mechanisms to improve evidence for timely decision-making to achieve long-term change.

Samagra is a PSI-led flagship project on urban health in India. This landmark initiative funded by the USAID aims to construct a resilient model(s) of urban health by applying user-centric approaches to catalyse the public and private sector to improve primary health outcomes in urban India. PSI is the primary implementation partner in this project and works closely with local partners to increase the use of modern contraceptives, case detection for tuberculosis (TB), multidrug resistant (MDR)-TB, and improve the coverage of maternal and child health care including antenatal care (ANC), intra-natal, and postnatal care (PNC) and immunization. The long-term vision of Samagra is to be a one-stop-solution centre/resource centre on urban health in India. The project aims to:

-Provide technical assistance at the national, state, and city levels for strengthening urban health systems

-Incubate innovative solutions, and

-Operate as an accelerator hub and build upon evidence-based approaches

"SAMAGRA, through its City to City Learning for COVID-19 Vaccination (CoVLEx), aims to build a global COVID-19 vaccination knowledge management system that will aid in shaping the discourse on the pandemic response. The objectives of the model are to enhance institutional and human capacity in the cities to accelerate progress on COVID-19 vaccination; to foster joint learning through sharing the initiatives, best practices, human interest stories and learnings of COVID-19 vaccination among the member cities; and to form a network of public health professionals and policymakers from the member cities who share experience and co-develop global knowledge products that help the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination. 

In India, along with its implementing partners (IP) and through its state teams, SAMAGRA technically supports the local city administration in their COVID-19 response. The IPs, through frontline and community health workers, spread information around COVID-19 vaccination, motivate communities to get vaccinated, tackle vaccine hesitancy and facilitate registration and referral of beneficiaries to the nearest vaccination centers. Medical consultations, teleconsultations and counselling services are also provided to those in need. "