Disease Prevention and Control
The health policy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has given due emphasis to promotive and preventive interventions coupled with basic curative services. Consequently, the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention General Directorate (HPDP-GD) has been established to achieve greater public satisfaction by engaging communities and families in the inception, implementation and evaluation of health programms.
Women, children and Youth Affairs
The Federal Ministry of Health, Women’s, children and youth affairs directorate is responsible to coordinates and leads most gender, child, youth, and disability-related activities of the health sector by working closely with other directorates, federal hospitals, and agencies as well as Regional and City administration health bureau structures to ensure women, men, youth, Persons with disability equally benefit from the health services.
Partnership and Cooperation
Vision
To see efficient, sustainable and equitable health financing in Ethiopia.
Mission
To proactively and purposefully forge partnerships and facilitate coordination with directorates at the Ministry , government organizations, private sector and development partners to ensure the active identification, solicitation, mobilization, allocation and efficient utilization of resources to realize Health Sector Transformation Plan.
Health Information Technology
Health Information Technology Directorate in the health sector works to improve Quality service delivery; To improve accessibility and equity; Implement health services with the help of indigenous and innovative technologies; It is working to implement health information technology in the health sector to enable timely, quality data collection, use and transmission.
Internal Audit
OBJECTIVE
Objective of the directorate is to provide independent, objective, assurance and consulting services designed to add value and improve the Ministry's operations and systems of internal controls, risk management, and governance processes.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Public Relation and Communication
The success of any institution, whether public or private, is greatly dependent upon its reputation. Opinions of consumers, employees, investors, policy makers and the media have powerful impacts on the prosperity of an organisation. Their perceptions will drive their decisions about whether they want to work with, deal with and support the institution. Consequently, there is an indisputable need for a strong communication, with the aim of building the organisations reputation, earning understanding and support as well as influencing public opinion and behaviour.
Human Resource Development
Objective:
The objective of Human Resource Development & Management unit is to train and supply qualified health workers of different categories governed by professional ethics. It also aims to design new system of human resources development and retention programs. The existence of adequate number of skilled, motivated and well-supported health workers is essential for the delivery of efficient health services.
Main Teams of the Unit:
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Human Resource Development Team