We support our partners throughout their cooperation. We offer further training opportunities, tools for partnership quality control and support for the implementation of your project.
Partnership quality control
EFFECt stands for EFFective in Embedding Change. This tool is used to evaluate and further develop hospital partnerships. It focuses in particular on evaluating good practices in implementation, on embedding change, and on the additional benefits of a partnership-based approach for individuals and institutions.
EFFECt-Tool
The EFFECt tool measures changes with respect to capacity development, regardless of the focus of the specific interventions. The ESTHER EFFECt tool aims in particular to identify practices that can lead to sustainable change. The tool was developed by analysing existing research findings, frameworks and models from the health and development literature. The digital version of the EFFECt tool is still being developed. To find out more please consult this document.
Contract implementation
Implementation of the project activities is the responsibility of the German partner, in close consultation with the partner in the partner country. We support our partners throughout the entire project cycle. If any changes occur in your project, such as changes in the activities, please notify us in good time.
Please get in touch with your contact person in the University and Hospital Partnerships in Africa funding programme, who is named in the invitation after the agreement is signed.
Please contact GIZ's Finance Department. The relevant contact person is named on p. 1 of your subsidy agreement.
Any changes to the contract must be agreed in writing. GIZ requires a signed modification request with your official letterhead, including a rationale, the old financial plan, a financial plan showing only the changes, and the new financial plan. Please note: the total amount of the agreement remains unchanged.
No. Please contact your administrative department. The partners are responsible for implementation and they themselves decide whether they want to formalise the partnership in a memorandum of understanding or a written agreement. All partnerships and their subsidy agreements are different. Topics for an agreement could include the content of the partnership, the division of tasks, staff visits and exchanges, transfer of funds, financial accounting between the partners, data exchange, etc.
The German partner is responsible for implementation and therefore makes the decisions regarding procurement of materials and equipment. GIZ does not decide on or approve placement of orders. Please observe the contractual agreements on the procurement of materials and equipment in accordance with public procurement law. If in doubt, please check with your administrative department.
The project participants hold regular exchange and networking meetings. In our calendar of events you can see when the next meeting is scheduled.
As a member of the global ESTHER Alliance, we will be happy to support you in networking with partner institutions that are not in the initiative. You will find an overview of the partnership projects of ESTHER members here. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions
In general it is possible to obtain follow-on funding, but this depends on the allocation of funds from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
