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Funded by PEEK/Welcome Trust Fund.Project

Peek Practice-Based Evidence Framework

To develop a continuous improvement approach that can help all of our programmes run as effectively as they can, reaching everyone.


We want to develop an easy-to-use, real-time, data-driven system that helps programme managers identify which groups are being left behind; provides rapid tools for engaging them to work out what could be done differently; and the ability to easily test whether these ideas actually make a difference. This approach will increase access to care for those who need it across all programmes, with the greatest gains experienced by the most marginalised groups.

Funded by Sightsavers and Light for the World International

HSS Health Strengthening System Project

This project aims at contributing to avoidable blindness prevention through health system strengthening in eye health training and practice in ECSA by addressing strategic drivers that affect eye health in the region in the East Central and Southern Africa countries.


The project seeks to sustain the solid gains made under the COECSA Strategic Plan 2012-2017 that included increasing the pool of skilled and motivated eye health workers, development and dissemination of standards of practice is eye health within the region and advocacy for eye health integration in health systems. COECSA designed this intervention in areas at strategic level will not only add value to ophthalmology but also contribute to the development of the health sector in general. The project seeks to continue and sustain the gains made in Phase I (2017-2020) through a number of critical interventions under the partnership albeit at the strategic level.

Funded by MUDSREH NIH grant

Modria Project

To use a multimodal database of clinical and retinal imaging data to develop algorithms for the diagnosis of PSED in an African population, thereby integrating the ophthalmic imaging function into normal clinic operations in Uganda and Kenya

Funded by The Pyott Foundation through the Ophthalmology Foundation (OF)

Improved Regional Ophthalmic Educational Project (IROEP)

The Improved Regional Ophthalmic Educational Project (IROEP) for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA), seeks to improve the number and capacity of Human Resources for Eye Health (HREH) through enhanced quality of ophthalmic education in the ECSA region.

It will contribute to the broader health systems strengthening aspirations expressed in the health sector plans of COECSA member countries. It will strive to advocate for ophthalmologists and other eye care staff to be trained, supported and retained in sufficient numbers to ensure accelerated progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to enable everyone, particularly the poor, marginalized and remote populations to benefit from essential eye care services, towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

The overall goal is to strengthen the quality of eye health education in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA) region, with the following specific objectives;

  1. Standardization & Capacity Building: To strengthen institutions’ capacity to deliver high standards of training across the ECSA region.
  2. Exams Development & Delivery: To enhance capacity for COECSA to develop and administer high quality regional Written and Clinical Fellowship Examinations.
  3. Training Support: To support suitable doctors and ophthalmologists to undertake training in accredited programs through scholarships and provision of training materials.

The project is being funded by the Pyott Foundation through the Ophthalmology Foundation (OF), and will run from 2022 – 2026.

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