Providing every African access to quality healthcare
Providers of quality health care
Ubora means “excellence, quality, or high standard” in Swahili. It underlines the organisation’s intent on not just being excellent in our operations and impact but to work to high standards to empower and equip health systems in Africa and other resource-constrained countries to do the same.
Ubora Institute, is a Pan African non-profit organisation incorporated in Ghana as “Ubora Quality Institute”, a company limited by guarantee under The Companies Code, 1963 (Act 179) with an operational base in Accra, Ghana.
Our Vision
Every child, woman and man in Africa is healthy and has access to high quality healthcare
Our Values
Integrity, Profesionalism,Teamwork,Innovationand Impact
Ubora began as a vision in the minds of the leadership and some staff of Project Fives Alive! (PFA!). This followed the successful eight-year implementation of PFA! as a partnership between the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the National Catholic Health Services (NCHS) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS), funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to reduce preventable deaths in children less than five years old. Project Fives Alive! started as a pilot in three districts in the three regions of Northern Ghana in 2008 and by March 2013, scaled-up nationwide to cover over 80% of public hospitals and over 30% of the country’s districts. The Project achieved significant milestones in the entire continuum of under-five care including antenatal care, skilled delivery, postnatal care and care for the older child; including a 31% reduction in under-five mortality in over 140 regional/district hospitals in the Ghana.
Project Fives Alive! had a rich cadre of highly skilled Improvement Advisors (IAs) trained by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, who over the eight years were successfully deployed as consultants to support the successful execution of similar and rapidly growing quality improvement projects across Africa, in countries like Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia and South Africa. These leaders and officers set up and are part of the created independent entity, Ubora Institute, that continues to propagate the science and benefits of Quality Improvement to strengthen health systems in the African Region and beyond in other resource-constrained countries.