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The Preventative Health and Community Empowerment (PHACE) Programme
The Preventative Health and Community Empowerment (PHACE) Programme has been invited to expand from Papua New Guinea into Timor-Leste to counteract a resurgence in leprosy cases threatening the country’s Leprosy Elimination status.
Partnering with the NZ government (the NZ Aid Programme), there are three main goals over the next 5 years in Timor Leste:
- For empowered, inclusive and resilient communities addressing wider community development.
- For improved health in communities for all.'
- For sustainable preventative health and community empowerment based on the PHACE that have been successfully implemented in Papua New Guinea.
We focus on three vulnerable municipalities in Timor Leste: Atauro, Liquica and Bobonaro; and help them make the shift from reliance on under-resourced curative healthcare to sustainable preventative health.
The main goals of PHACE Programme:
To build knowledge that underpins community wellbeing
- To help local leaders embrace their responsibilities for improving health.
- To improve the links between small communities and the services/support that are available at a regional and national level.
- To help people in the target communities understand their rights to good health, and respectful treatment regardless of status or gender, and create opportunities for the empowerment of women and girls.
- To embed the principles of preventive health practices.
- To improve the knowledge and skills of the teams that deploy PHACE in communities, including health staff and volunteers.
- To establish partnership with health posts and build capacity of local health professions in communities and build trust and mana towards them among their user bases.
- To indigenise PHACE systems and support so they align with the nature and priorities of the local community.
