Rwanda

Muraho

Collaborating with the Rwandan government to strengthen the nation's health systems.

Selected Achievements

  • Jhpiego helped prevent and contain COVID-19, contributing to 55% of all vaccine doses administered in the country.

  • In 2024, Jhpiego trained and mentored more than 940 health workers from 346 health facilities to improve labor and delivery care. More than 120 doctors were trained in safe cesarean delivery.

  • In partnership with the Ministry of Health and Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Jhpiego supported 213 facilities through malaria death audits (routine meetings with health facility staff) and provider mentorship. Over 34,500 community health workers were trained in electronic surveillance systems to improve case tracking and drug stock monitoring.

  • Jhpiego-supported projects have helped more than 310,000 women access antenatal care and more than 277,000 receive care from a skilled birth attendant.

  • Jhpiego leads and contributes to multiple technical working groups, including Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health, Family Planning, Malaria, and Health Data, while expanding its capacity-building model to districts and local organizations.

  • For the first time in Rwanda, Jhpiego introduced the E-MOTIVE package to detect and treat postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), distributing 20,000 calibrated drapes and non-pneumatic anti-shock garments. Uterotonic coverage—the percentage of women giving birth in a health facility who receive a uterotonic drug immediately after birth to prevent PPH—exceeded 98%, and the PPH case fatality rate dropped from 27.9% to 16.7% in one year.

Our Projects

Improving Access to Lifesaving Health Services

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership

  • MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, funded by the United States Government, is a global mechanism that saves lives and improves access to quality, integrated health services by distributing life-saving commodities, medicines, and vaccines, and providing critical health care services for pregnant mothers and children under five. The project provides safe childbirth for mothers and babies, vaccinates children, treats deadly illnesses and malnutrition, and controls disease outbreaks.

    Learn more here: Momentum Country and Global Leadership

Improving Health Through Integrated Approaches

Reaching Impact Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE)

  • Reaching Impact Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE) is a multi-country project funded by the U.S. Government to save lives and improve health through integrated, evidence-based approaches to address urgent gaps in lifesaving services. RISE works across all levels of the health system to strengthen the HIV/TB epidemic response, to limit the spread of deadly disease outbreaks through Global Health Security programming, and to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality through integrated maternal, newborn, and child health, nutrition, tuberculosis, and malaria services. RISE supports country governments to strengthen essential data systems, supply chain and commodity management, human resources for health, domestic resource mobilization, and other cross-cutting health system functions to accelerate transition to country ownership. Since 2019, RISE has supported programs in more than 25 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The program runs through December 2027. Learn more here.

Safeguarding the future of malaria treatment across Africa

The Scaling the Optimal Use of Multiple ACT’s to Prevent Antimalarials Drug Resistance (STOP-AMDR) Project is a six-country effort to stop the spread of antimalarial drug resistance through smarter use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), the recommended treatment for malaria.

  • Jhpiego is supporting national efforts to monitor, adapt, and implement protocols that protect treatment efficacy and reduce malaria-related deaths now and into the future.

Fueling health innovation through local startup leadership

HealthTech Hub Africa is a hybrid pan-African healthtech accelerator, with a physical co-working and community space in Kigali, working to drive development of health technologies in Africa and fast-track these innovations in public health systems through collaboration with government partners and funders of global health.

  • Jhpiego supports health tech startups in Rwanda and beyond to scale bold, data-driven solutions to pressing health challenges. By providing access to policymakers, technical mentorship, and funding networks, HTHA is nurturing a new generation of innovators working to close equity gaps and influence digital health policy.

Scaling an evidence-based solution to prevent postpartum hemorrhage

Accelerating Measurable Progress and Leveraging Investments for Postpartum Hemorrhage Impact (AMPLI-PPHI)

  • Building on the World Health Organization’s updated postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) guidance and results from the E-MOTIVE trial, Jhpiego is supporting the roll out of calibrated drapes to detect and treat PPH more effectively in Rwanda. This project, funded by Unitaid, will prioritize high-burden hospitals before expanding to health centers, aiming to reduce complications and save more mothers’ lives.

Country Director

Marie Rose Kayirangwa

Country Director
“For over thirty years, Jhpiego Rwanda has advanced innovative health care solutions to ensure equitable, life-saving services reach those who need them most. Our work addresses critical health challenges through strong partnerships with government and health institutions.”
— Marie Rose Kayirangwa, Rwanda Country Director