Social Sectors Development Strategies (SSDS)
Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc.
1411 Washington Street, Suite 6
Boston, MA 02118
Tel: 1-617-421-9644
Fax: 1-617-421-9046
Web site:
http://www.ssds.net
Project Director: Dr. Maggie Huff-Rousselle, mhuffrousselle@ssds.net
Deputy Project Director: Dr. Nancy Fronczak, nfronczak@ssds.net
SSDSplus includes high caliber complementary organizations: Social Sectors Development Strategies (SSDS), as the prime contractor, O’Hanlon Health Consulting, Broad Branch Associates, JHPIEGO (a prime contractor for AIDSTAR Sector I), and Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
Building sustainable capacity is the hallmark of our approach. We never just complete a task. We ensure that local institutions are provided the information, tools, training, and systems that enable them to carry on in the future. The SSDSplus team’s approach ensures thinking and acting strategically and pragmatically by: a) operating along a research-to-practice continuum; and b) linking service delivery and capacity building.
These two principles assure the credibility that a change agent needs to work effectively with partners. The SSDSplus team is staffed by seasoned professionals whose reputations further assure that credibility. We are not a body-shop. Our credibility depends on the caliber of the SSDSplus staff and consultants with whom we have long-established working relationships.
Thinking and acting strategically and pragmatically is central to the four-pronged iterative approach to capacity building applied by the SSDSplus team. We will continually assess and reassess the development of plans and their implementation, from these perspectives:
- Programmatic or technical soundness
- Financial viability
- Administrative feasibility
- Political acceptability and commitment of key stakeholders
Stakeholders are intimately involved in a learning-by-doing process, an approach that includes participatory training and mentoring as key elements of capacity-building. This is the only approach that can assure that AIDSTAR initiatives leave behind enduring and positive changes in organizations and health systems where HIV/AIDS services are implemented and scaled up.
SSDS specializes in NGO and public sector institutional development and sustainability, including assessments and evaluations, gender analyses, resource development (including advocacy and marketing), strategic and participatory planning, operations research, economic analysis and financial planning, management systems development (including supply chain management), training, and knowledge management (http://www.ssds.net).
JHPIEGO (an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University) develops, disseminates, and implements HIV/AIDS policy and service delivery guidelines and the continuous supervision and quality improvement systems to sustain them. Core strengths lie in workforce planning, training and networking systems, performance improvement processes, and tools for service delivery, ensuring the link between service delivery and capacity building (http://www.jhpiego.org).
Tulane University brings renowned expertise in HIV/AIDS monitoring and evaluation and also provides management expertise, including governance, organizational development, strategic planning, operations management and research, and finance. Tulane applies the latest evidence-based approaches to all aspects of capacity building, enabling the SSDSplus team to ensure our research-to-practice continuum (http://www.sph.tulane.edu).
O’Hanlon Health Consulting specializes in networking and linkages, while Broad Branch Associates brings proficiency in performance-based incentives.
JHPIEGO and Tulane offer support to SSDSplus small business partners through numerous linkages with HIV/AIDS programs worldwide. SSDSplus partners have broad experience in working with PEPFAR under USAID, CDC-GAP, OGAC, the Global Fund as well as other agencies.
Collaborating Institutions
- Copperbelt University, Zambia
- National Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, Zambia
- Pooled Procurement Service of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
- Reproductive Health Association of Cambodia (RHAC)
- TreeTop Limited, Botswana
SSDSplus QUALIFIES FOR SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDES
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