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Academy for Educational Development
1825 Connecticut Ave, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Phone: (202) 884-8000
Project Director: Petra Reyes
preyes@aed.org
www.aed.org
The AED Team includes the Academy for Educational Development, EngenderHealth, Heartlands International, International Medical Corps, Terra P Group, and Tulane University. The AED Team addresses a range of global issues, including population, health, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. This team offers the best thinking, technologies, and multidisciplinary approaches to human development. It builds on AED's reputation for excellence in using proven comprehensive, state-of-the-art approaches to ensure:
- Results
- Rapid response
- Strategic vision
- Scale
- Stakeholder participation ownership and action
- Strengthened local capacity
- Sustainability
The AED Team strategically includes three tiers of partners to complement and supplement one another — Core Partners, Resource Partners, and Regional Collaborating Partners — expanding our ability to offer maximum responsiveness to a broad range of task order requirements. The team combines experienced partners with new partners, bringing proven expertise together with new ideas, new strengths, and new skills, as well as a diverse array of local and regional talent in developing countries. Core Team Partners are:
- Academy for Educational (AED) offers a solid base of multidisciplinary depth in health communications for demand creation and evidence-based behavior change; social marketing and advocacy; and applied behavioral research in a broad range of health areas, including maternal and child health (MCH) and survival, reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP), nutrition, and infectious diseases — including malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, avian influenza, and others. AED initiatives in monitoring and evaluation, ICT, and other state-of-the-art communication technologies expand our ability and approach in working at scale. AED's public-private and commercial partnerships have greatly improved access to health care services and products. Local collaboration — especially participatory local program design and evaluation — is a hallmark of our implementation approach, as AED strengthens local capacities to achieve scale and sustained results.
- EngenderHealth (EH) specializes in maternal health, RH/FP services delivery, infection control, quality improvement, and, more broadly, services improvement, including clinical aspects of integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI), voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT), and HIV/AIDS treatment, care, and support. EH brings leadership in gender equity considerations and male involvement, stigma reduction, peer counseling, and capacity-building in all aspects.
- Heartlands International, a Native American woman-owned (8a) Small Business, brings extensive international experience in institutional and civil society capacity-building, monitoring and evaluation, and private sector capacity-building.
- International Medical Corps, recognized for its expertise in "Relief to Development" in vulnerable and conflict-ridden countries, provides medical services, local capacity-building, psycho-social well-being, and community rebuilding and strengthening. IMC mobilizes global networks of service providers; logistics capabilities support for pharmaceutical, RH, and laboratory needs; and other commodity support requests.
- Terra P Group is a small and relatively new (8a) niche firm that specializes in health financing, economics, health reform, and related policy development. The organization taps senior international expertise in health systems and policy, human resources planning, and nursing policy and development.
- Tulane University, School of Public Health brings a broad range of expertise and international networks in key public health issues, including infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, operational research, policy development, and laboratory improvement, as well as capacity-building in all of these areas.
The AED Team also includes a number of Resource Partners with specific expertise: Agronomes et Veterinaires sans Frontieres (AVSF), American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM), Robert H. Schaffer & Associates (RHSA) and the Rapid Results Institute (RRI), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service. Regional Collaborating Partners maximize use of local institutions and strengthen South-to-South technical interdependencies and talent pools, and include: African Regional Youth Initiative, Arjumand and Associates, Bangladesh Women's Health Coalition, Centre for African Family Studies, East and Central African Health Community, Makerere University Institute of Public Health, Mwangaza Action, Network of African People Living with HIV/AIDS, and the West African Health Organization.
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