Scale-up of community-based health workers
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Framework
- National programme, with an international technical partner
- Services
- Training, deployment, monitoring
17,652 workers trained and deployed
Public health consultancy · Kinshasa, DRC
Reliable data for health decisions that change outcomes.
Axiom Santé supports ministries of health, United Nations agencies, NGOs and technical and financial partners in research, evaluation, monitoring and evaluation, and health systems strengthening, in the DRC and across French-speaking Africa.
14+ yearsof experience in public health and monitoring and evaluation
6 countriesDRC, Cameroon, Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Burkina Faso
25,000+community health volunteers mapped and georeferenced
17,600+community health workers trained and deployed
Combined experience of the team's experts, gained within United Nations agencies, international NGOs, ministries of health and Axiom Santé.
Who we are
A Congolese consultancy working to international standards
Axiom Santé is a consultancy founded in Kinshasa by public health practitioners. We combine in-depth knowledge of the region's health systems with the methodological, ethical and quality requirements of major international clients.
- Multidisciplinary teams assembled for each assignment, with national and regional experts
- Methods aligned with evaluation standards (OECD DAC evaluation criteria, United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) norms) and health research standards
- Deliverables in French and English, reviewed under a quality assurance process
- Policies on ethics, safeguarding (PSEA), anti-corruption and data protection
Expertise
Six areas of expertise
Short or long assignments, from inception to dissemination, tailored to the context of public health programmes.
Research and evaluation
Baseline studies, mid-term and final evaluations, impact evaluations, quantitative and qualitative surveys, operational research.
Monitoring and evaluation (MEAL)
MEAL systems, results frameworks, indicators, data quality assessments (DQA), third-party monitoring (TPM) and accountability.
Health systems strengthening
Analyses based on the WHO building blocks, costed strategic and operational plans, community health, health financing.
Project design
Concept notes, theories of change, logical frameworks (logframes), technical proposals and resource mobilisation support.
Training and capacity building
Practical modules on project cycle management, monitoring and evaluation, data quality and data use for decision-making.
Digital health and data
Mobile data collection, DHIS2, mapping and GIS, dashboards, decision-support tools and applied artificial intelligence.
Thematic areas
Programmes we know from the inside
Community healthCommunity health workers and volunteers, integrated case management
Malaria, HIV, tuberculosisDisease control programmes, Global Fund grants
Maternal and child healthMNCH, reproductive health, family planning
ImmunisationExpanded Programme on Immunization, coverage and equity
NutritionAcute malnutrition, food security, cash transfers
Epidemics and emergenciesSurveillance, response, humanitarian settings
Health financingCosting, efficiency, mutual health insurance, strategic purchasing
Health productsPharmaceutical policies, supply chain
Projects and references
Measurable results in the field
A selection of assignments led by the team's experts. Clients are not named, for confidentiality reasons; certificates of satisfactory completion are available on request.
Georeferenced mapping of community health volunteers
- Countries
- Guinea-Bissau, Niger
- Beneficiary
- Ministries of health
- Services
- Methodology, mobile data collection, atlas
More than 25,000 volunteers mapped
Contribution of community health workers to malaria case management
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Framework
- Community health programme
- Services
- Protocol, analysis, publication
Published in a peer-reviewed journal
Our approach
Rigour, context, usefulness
Every assignment follows the same logic: understand the question, produce reliable data and turn it into decisions.
Frame
Inception note, evaluation questions, evaluation matrix and stakeholder analysis, validated with the client.
Measure
Appropriate mixed methods, pre-tested tools, ethical approval where required, real-time data quality control.
Analyse
Transparent and reproducible analyses, triangulation of sources, clearly stated limitations.
Inform decisions
Prioritised recommendations, feedback sessions with teams, action plan and support for the use of findings.
Why Axiom Santé
What our partners can expect from us
Local presence
A team based in Kinshasa, enumerators and supervisors who can be mobilised in the provinces, and command of the national languages.
Methodological rigour
Epidemiologists, statisticians and evaluators trained to the standards of the United Nations, the World Bank and bilateral donors.
Independence and ethics
Declaration of conflicts of interest, informed consent, data confidentiality and zero tolerance of abuse.
Responsiveness
A lean structure, experts who can be mobilised quickly and a response to every request within 48 working hours.
Pilot under way · Kinshasa
Innovation
FinanSanté Copilot
A French-language assistant, powered by artificial intelligence and reviewed by our experts, that helps local health NGOs mobilise funding.
- Identify calls for proposals suited to your organisation
- Analyse each call: eligibility, criteria, realistic chances of success
- Draft concept notes, logframes and MEAL plans
- Assess your institutional capacity and strengthen it
- Learn through short, practical modules
Our commitments
Public institutional policies
The commitments expected by international clients, applied to every assignment and every team member.
01
Ethics and conduct
Integrity, independence, conflicts of interest, research ethics.
02PSEA and safeguarding
Zero tolerance of sexual exploitation and abuse.
03Anti-corruption
Combating fraud, corruption and collusion; whistleblowing mechanism.
04Quality and data
Quality assurance of deliverables, data security and confidentiality.
Publications
Practical notes
7 common mistakes in logical frameworks (and how to fix them)
Results confused with activities, indicators without baseline values, overlooked assumptions: what donors spot first.
MEAL plan: the 8 essential sections for a health NGO
A monitoring and evaluation plan that is simple, credible and genuinely used by the team, section by section.
A tender, an evaluation or a MEAL system to design?
Tell us what you need: we will propose an approach, a team and a timeline within 48 working hours.