Protecting the Right to Healthy Living
Health is an important component of wellbeing, a healthy older person (physically, mentally, and socially) is more likely to enjoy better quality of life. Healthy Ageing is of paramount importance in enabling an older person to enjoy a better quality of life and address issues concerning other elements of wellbeing i.e., demand for enhanced dignity and his voice to be heard.
Efforts focus towards enabling older people and those with disabilities to have improved access to available, acceptable and quality health and care services which provide health promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, improved functionality and palliative care. Efforts are also directed to address the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that people with disability face when accessing health systems and services.
This is achieved through the collaborative efforts with Government Ministries, institutions, and other stakeholders, internal and external in facilitating the implementation of: Universal health coverage, UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, long-term care and support systems and the National Strategy for the provision of health services to older people, consolidating and rolling out gains attained in implementing previous health projects, capacity building of implementing partners and beneficiaries.
In collaboration with Central and Local Governments together with implementing partners we support the improvement of knowledge and skills of health care providers, community-based health institutions and community members to improve their capacity to address the rising burden of NCDs, epidemics and pandemics, geriatric conditions and SRH needs among older people and those with disabilities. We initiate and organise dialogue, sharing of best practices, learning and information sharing through established channels. The above undertakings are supported by internal and external funding partners. The Memorandum of Understanding entered with the Government Ministries also facilitate these endeavours.
We plan to continue scaling up the implementation of best practices attained while implementing health projects in other areas of the country including Zanzibar where we have the mandate to operate to other parts of the country. We plan to identify more areas of focus so that we are able to facilitate the improvement of health status and therefore the wellbeing of older people and those living with disabilities.
