TARSAN Project

Title
Towards sustainable quality healthcaRe delivery at grasSroots level through Active participation of civil society organizations.

Objective
The overall objective of the project is to contribute to a sustainable and widely accessible quality health care system in rural Bangladesh by engaging Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Sunamgonj district to introduce community paramedics.

Result
The project will produce trained community paramedics (CPs) and develop capacity for training institutes that offer community paramedic courses as per international standards.

Main Activities
Training/ Orientation/ Campaign on Building Awareness & Motivation at Institute level, joint collaboration meeting with CSO & Media, Policy dialogue events conducted at different level, Awareness Development Program for Communities (Folksongs/ Drama/ Rally/ Fair), Health related issues addressed by the media.

Location
Sunamgonj district.

Duration
2011-2014

Donor
European Union.