L’Initiative’s greater capacity has resulted in the creation of a new tool: L’Accélérateur. This tool seeks to drive changes in health practices and meet new challenges, giving priority to partner countries in French-speaking Africa.
Through L’Accélérateur, we offer our partners a fresh impetus by intensifying our catalytic, structural role and driving long-term transformations in health systems.
To achieve this, we provide funding and technical assistance to projects that strengthen human resources for health, support community systems, improve sexual and reproductive health and rights, and strive to respond to other neglected challenges.
Through this mechanism, we support essential solutions that allow health systems to meet people’s needs over the long term.
Eligibility criteria and selection process
Project proposals are examined by the Steering Committee, following preliminary work by the L’Initiative team, which is responsible for proposing support priorities and appropriate mechanisms to respond to neglected challenges.
L’Accélérateur prioritizes the most fragile countries in sub-Saharan Africa but may also respond to emergencies in other regions.
Eligibility criteria
Project initiators must meet certain eligibility prerequisites:
The projects submitted must fall within the priority topics adopted by L’Initiative’s Steering Committee: human resources for health, strengthening laboratories and their networks, supporting procurement centers and regulatory authorities, governance and leadership, strengthening community health systems, and helping operationalize France’s “Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights” strategy.
The project initiators must be from countries eligible for L’Initiative’s support, and priority is given to the most fragile French-speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
The projects submitted must not be eligible to receive support from the Expertise Channel or the Projects Channel and must be complementary to Global Fund investments.
The projects must be aligned with France’s strategies for global health (2023-2027) and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR 2022-2026), with the EU Global Health Strategy (2023-2027), and with the Global Fund Strategy (2023-2028).
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Training field epidemiologists in ten West African countries
As part of L’Accélérateur program, L’Initiative allocated 3,000,000 euros to a university Master’s degree, to strengthen human resources for intervention epidemiology in around ten West African countries.
These funds were attributed to the BFELTP (Burkina Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program), a hands-on Master’s level course in field epidemiology that integrates the “One Health” approach. This program not only strengthens the skills of 60 new health professionals but also boosts a professional community of French-speaking field epidemiologists through conferences, a digital platform, regular discussions, and the production of a reference manual. It will be based at the University of Lomé in Togo, in partnership with the Joseph Ki-Zerbo University in Ouagadougou.
L’Accélérateur’s support responds to the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases in these countries, which have seen recurrent outbreaks and epidemics in recent years, and where there is an acute shortage of trained human resources to fight such outbreaks.
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