USAID Awards $39.5 Million Project for Learning, Acting, and Building Rehabilitation

USAID, Dec. 8. 2020

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced a new award in Learning, Acting, and Building for Rehabilitation in Health Systems (ReLAB-HS) to the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, financed by the Leahy War Victims Fund (LWVF). This five-year project, worth as much as $39.5 million (subject to the availability of funds), is the largest in the history of the LWVF.

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ReLab-HS will drive significant change in the physical-rehabilitation sector through enhanced and innovative service-delivery models, workforce capacity-building, and extensive data and research capabilities. The program will help ensure that millions of people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially those that are emerging from conflict, have access to high-quality sustainable services that are responsive to the growing need for physical rehabilitation.

Since 1989, through approximately $300 million in Congressional appropriations to the LWVF, USAID has responded to the growing needs for physical rehabilitation and assistive technology (AT) worldwide in more than 50 countries.

 In full:https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/dec-8-2020-usaid-awards-395-million-project-learning-acting-and-building

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