Our 10-year Strategy aims to advance the Pacific’s vision of universal access to quality eye care.
Our Strategy charts The Foundation’s voyage with Pacific island countries as we support ongoing efforts to strengthen and integrate eye health within overall health systems.
Our collective Goal, supported by Our Strategy, is to ensure Pacific people benefit from their own sustainable and resilient quality eye health systems.
Although it is a 10-year Strategy, The Foundation is on a multi-generational journey to realise our vision of a world in which no person is needlessly blind or vision impaired, particularly given growing rates of vision loss in the Pacific.
The context we operate in is a dynamic one, encompassing many factors:
With these challenges in mind, we have developed four Key Focus Areas that inform Our Strategy:
Supporting the development of the eye health workforce to deliver sustainable, quality eye health services embedded in Pacific countries’ eye health systems, remains the cornerstone of our work.
The Foundation’s work with its donors, governments, and other partners over the past 20 years has enabled the development of quality eye health services in numerous countries across the Pacific and Timor-Leste.
This has been possible through the establishment of specialised eye health qualifications delivered by Pacific universities, and has led to:
These achievements, together with our learnings, set the platform for our 10-year Strategy.
With the generous support of our donors and partners, we continue to partner with Pacific island countries and training institutions to ensure the ongoing development of a representative eye health workforce that meets the needs of Pacific people today and into the future.
In developing our new Strategy, we facilitated more than 100 consultations with over 50 partners and stakeholders in the Pacific, including Ministries of Health, academic institutions, non-government organisations, disability groups, development partners, regional organisations and our own staff.
Our Strategy weaves together this rich dialogue, with our partners’ aspirations at its heart. And our strategic Ambitions reflect these aspirations:
To advance these Ambitions, we focus our work on five Strategic Pathways:
We build the capability to deliver current and future strategy outcomes, ensuring both human resource and systems capacity are aligned to strengthen and sustain Pacific island countries’ health systems.
We endeavour to strengthen our unique ability to foster partnerships to achieve our Strategy’s aspirations.
We use gender equity, disability, and social inclusion lenses to uphold the Pacific Way of looking after everyone, in particular under-served communities, to achieve Integrated People-Centred Eye Care and ultimately universal eye health coverage.
We explore opportunities across technology, public health practices, sustainable development, and traditional knowledge to strengthen Pacific island countries’ eye health systems.
We support nationally and regionally led research agendas to continue developing and building evidence and knowledge for eye health system strengthening, to inform eye health investments and advocacy efforts.
We have developed an adaptable Monitoring, Evaluation, Reflection and Learning (MERL) framework to inform our implementation as well as provide evidence of progress and accountability.
If you want to know more about Our Strategy or receive a copy, please email strategy@hollows.nz or phone 0800 227 229.
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