The Oriade Initiative

The Oriade initiative presents co-financing and co-management based on adaptation of exiting local practice as adaptable and feasible strategies for sustainable development at the local levels with active participation of the local community and its partners. Its broad goals are to implement comprehensive people-centered poverty alleviation programs with health as its focal and entry point. Drawing on the Alma Ata declaration for primary health care and activities of the Bamako Initiative, it seeks to build the capacity of local communities to assess their own health priorities, identify solutions to them, implement these solutions and monitor the impact on pre-defined health and development outcomes.

Economic development, Health.

The overall vision of the initiative is to promote sustainable development through people-centered comprehensive poverty alleviation programs implemented by self-reliant local communities via co-management and co-financing plans. Furthermore, it fosters the establishment of participatory styles of development planning at local levels with active engagement of local communities in planning, implementation, financing, monitoring and evaluation of local development efforts.