ACHA — Pan-African Systems Platform
Accelerating Community Health Transformation Across Africa
ACHA is a Pan-African systems platform dedicated to accelerating the institutionalization, integration, and sustainability of community health systems as a core pillar of Primary Health Care across Africa.
Who We Are
A systems accelerator, not a service delivery organization
The African Community Health Accelerator (ACHA) is a Pan-African systems platform dedicated to accelerating the institutionalization, integration, and sustainability of community health systems as a core pillar of Primary Health Care (PHC) across Africa.
Learn more about ACHA →Vision
An Africa where community health systems are fully institutionalized, integrated, and sustainably financed, ensuring equitable access to quality Primary Health Care for every community.
Mission
To accelerate the transformation of community health systems across Africa by advancing institutionalization, strengthening integration within Primary Health Care, fostering alignment across stakeholders, and supporting sustainable systems change.
Our Approach
Five Strategic Levers for Transformation
Institutionalize
Strengthening policies, governance structures, financing mechanisms, workforce systems, and accountability frameworks to embed community health as a permanent component of national health systems.
Integrate
Connecting community-based services with Primary Health Care facilities and referral systems to ensure continuity, efficiency, quality, and equity of care.
Align
Reducing fragmentation by bringing together governments, partners, implementers, researchers, and communities around shared priorities, coordinated approaches, and country-led solutions.
Accelerate
Supporting the adoption and scale-up of proven community health models, innovations, and best practices that improve system performance and population health outcomes.
Sustain
Strengthening domestic capacity, financing, leadership, data systems, and institutional resilience to ensure lasting impact beyond project and funding cycles.
What We Do
How ACHA Advances Systems Transformation
Why ACHA Matters
The systems integration layer community health has been missing
ACHA fills a critical gap by serving as the systems integration and acceleration layer that connects policy, financing, implementation, innovation, and learning. By helping countries institutionalize and strengthen community health systems, ACHA contributes to stronger Primary Health Care, improved health outcomes, greater health security, and accelerated progress toward Universal Health Coverage.
Our Aspiration
To become Africa's leading systems accelerator for community health transformation, enabling countries to build integrated, resilient, and sustainably financed community health systems that improve lives and leave no community behind.