
Project Overview
Wild4Life Health operates under the auspices of Pangaea Zimbabwe (PZ) and is dedicated to addressing critical health service access issues faced by vulnerable populations in the Binga, Hwange, and Lupane districts. The project aims to transform the lives of underserved communities by enhancing access to quality, responsive, evidence-based, person and people-centred comprehensive health services. The approach emphasizes collaboration through facility and community engagement, coupled with robust policy advocacy, to ensure sustainable health improvements in the targeted areas.
Project Goal
This initiative aims to tackle the challenges and barriers that hinder access to primary health services in underserved rural communities.

Scope of Work
The program focuses primarily on enhancing access to high-quality, comprehensive primary health care through a targeted approach comprised of 6 core interventions summarized below:
- Human Resources for Health (HRH) – this pillar focuses on capacity building and mentorship of healthcare workers (HCWs), village health workers (VHWs), and other allied health staff. The pillar ensures continuous professional development of healthcare workers (HCWs), village health workers (VHWs), and other allied health staff through clinical mentorship, in-field mentorship, supportive supervision, and skill-building in service delivery. Wild4Life team and Ministry of Health district mentors carry out integrated mentorship visits to health facilities and outreach services, train, mentor and support Village Health Workers in the field to improve community-based health services delivery and also carry out regular review meetings and skills-building workshops for HCWs and VHWs.
- Health Governance and Leadership – this pillar focuses on strengthening District Health Executives (DHEs) for effective health governance, leadership and accountability, supporting Health Centre Committees (HCCs) to foster community ownership and promote local accountability and a link between communities and health facilities. Wild4Life team support the DHE in conducting district mentorship on data-driven decision-making and leadership practices, HCC trainings on roles, advocacy, and management of community health priorities and resources and facilitating regular HCC meetings to ensure community voices are heard.
- Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Data Quality, and Digital Health – this pillar focuses on data quality assessments and improvements, utilizing digital tools to guide improvements and integrating CQI processes into service delivery to address gaps. Wild4Life team carry out quarterly Data Quality Assessments and audits (DQAs) and data review meetings, data abstraction, introduces digital health solutions for improved data collection and facility-led CQI projects to identify and address service delivery bottlenecks.
- Community engagement and structures – this pillar seeks to transform gender norms and empower communities through community dialogues, GNT sessions and working with community leaders for social accountability and strengthen community-based structures to demand quality healthcare. Wild4life team organises community dialogues on maternal health, gender equity, health rights and other topical health issues and conducts community-led health campaigns and health promotion activities.
- Service delivery innovations – this pillar seeks to enhance healthcare delivery through Differentiated Service Delivery (DSD) models like CARGs, FARGs and private sector partnerships. It also seeks to improve access to healthcare services via integrated outreach and addressing logistics and supply chain challenges. Wild4Life program conducts monthly integrated outreach services to underserved communities and strengthening cold chain and supply chain logistics to ensure availability of essential commodities. The program plans to plan the DSD for private sector engagement for expanded access to care through pharmacies.
- Cross-cutting and emerging health issues – this pillar integrates NCDs, mental health, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), climate change and other emerging health priority and topical issues into programming. The Wild4Life program will initiate community screening for NCDs namely hypertension and diabetes, train and mentor healthcare workers on mental health integration and promote health resilience to climate change through community training, sensitization and outreach health education campaigns on climate change impacts on health.
Linkages of the Wild4Life model to key national, regional and international frameworks
1. Primary Healthcare model – Alma Ata declaration (1978) and Astana declaration (2018)
As a primary healthcare model, the Wild4Life model is rooted in the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach ensuring comprehensive, affordable, available, acceptable and accessible, community-based care as envisioned in the Alma Ata Declaration (1978) and reaffirmed in the Astana Declaration (2018). The model fulfils the PHC core principles of equity by targeting underserved rural communities, the principle of community participation by strengthening HCCs and community dialogues, multisectoral collaboration and approach by linking health sector with broader social and environmental determinants and the principle of integrated care by combining preventive, promotive, curative, and rehabilitative services at all levels.
2. Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
The model aligns with the ideals of UHC of improving access to healthcare services through outreach services and DSD models bringing care closer to communities, financial protection by engaging community groups to identify barriers to accessing services, quality healthcare services through continuous mentorship and CQI processes that strengthen service delivery and equity by focusing on the hardest-to-reach and underserved communities ensuring no one is left behind.
3. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The Wild4Life model directly contributes to SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) by promoting universal access to quality health services, including maternal and child health, NCDs, and mental health, SDG 5 (Gender Equality) through gender norms transformation and community dialogues, SDG 13 (Climate Action) by promoting climate resilience health systems and empowering communities to address climate change impacts on health and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the goals) through collaborating with public and private sectors.
Geographical Areas
The study is conducted in Zimbabwe at:
- The SHAZ! Hub in Chitungwiza
- Cowdray Park Clinic in Bulawayo.
Resources
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