The Health Directorate works to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations by strengthening access to quality healthcare, promoting healthy behaviours, and supporting community-based health systems. Its interventions focus on maternal, newborn, and child health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), disease prevention, and community health promotion.
Working closely with health authorities, communities, and development partners, the Directorate empowers families with knowledge and practical solutions to prevent illness, improve nutrition, and enhance child survival. Through integrated health interventions, NABOCADO is helping build healthier communities where women, children, and vulnerable populations can live healthier and more productive lives.
KEY COMPETENCIES
Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal & Child Health (RMNCH): Integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), maternal health programming, natural family planning (SMART-Couples), newborn care, malnutrition mitigation through community and facility-based interventions
Nutrition & Food Security: Climate-resilient nutrition solutions (sack gardening), cooking demonstrations, growth monitoring and promotion, integrated community-based essential nutrition actions (ICENA)
Health Systems Strengthening: Capacity building for frontline health workers, health facility equipment provision, health infrastructure development across the diocese’s health facilities
WASH Programming: Access to safe drinking water, sanitation facility improvement, hygiene promotion, school health programming
Emergency & Humanitarian Response: COVID-19 response, refugee health services, displaced populations support, rapid deployment capacity
Community Engagement: Mother-to-Mother Support Groups, Community Health Volunteers, Community Health Action Plans, community-based pregnancy schools, community-based growth promotion and monitoring, home visits and defaulter tracing, partnership with traditional authorities
Malaria Control & School Health: Malaria prevention and treatment programming, comprehensive school health initiatives
Recent projects
- CHILD Project, with Kindermissionswerk (Germany), 2025–2028: maternal and child health support.
- RING II SS, with USAID through Abt Associates, 2023–2025: improving antenatal care and community health.
- COVID-19 Response, with CRS Ghana and the OSPREY Foundation, 2023–2024: COVID-19 prevention and vaccine uptake across the diocese.
Who we work with
Kindermissionswerk (Germany), USAID through Abt Associates, Catholic Relief Services, UNHCR and Caritas, and the OSPREY Foundation. In Ghana we work with the Ghana Health Service, the District Health Directorates and the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG).