Strengths:
- 30 years of experience in providing ‘School Health Services’
- Variety of experience in public health and health technologies
- Experience of working with ‘The Global Fund’ and NACP
- Experience of working with PACP Punjab and PACP Balochistan
- Strong skills in health sector automation and innovations
- Adequate knowledge of budgeted program activities
- Experience of managing high turn over budgets
- Public-Private-Corporate Partnership at strategic level
- Committed and passionate professionals in Advisory Board
- No dependence on external donors for field operations
- Respectable brand image in Balochistan; being a subsidiary of Taaleem Foundation – the largest employer of graduate women in non-profit sector of the province.
- Political support of parliamentarians at the operational level
- Administrative support by the bureaucracy in the field
- Community ownership of the process: supportive clients body at each project
- Low cost, high-quality and high-impact service delivery solutions
- Nation-wide and merit-based selection of project management staff
- Encouraging female participation in mainstream service operations
- Balanced sociological change through addressing gender concerns
- Institutional strength: policies, rules and procedures
- Good strength of project development and implementation
- Strong grip on budgetary controls, monitoring and evaluation
- Improved budgeting and financial management system
- Strong administrative and financial controls through highly qualified and skilled staff
- Good physical infrastructure at each project site
- Institutional linkages with leading bodies like Government of Balochistan, PPHI, Akhuwat, Kawish Welfare Trust, Medibank Trust, Health & Hygiene Limited, Infection Prevention & Control Foundation, and EduCast
- Team of highly skilled professionals for all projects and field interventions
- Good team of volunteers actively supporting the organization
- CSR partners gradually increasing their partnership and contributions with every passing year
- More than 1000 TF alumni supporting in voluntary capacity in the field
- Credibility: Established brand name in delivery of social services at an affordable cost
Opportunities:
- TFHI is a multi-donor organization, working with national as well as international donors
- ERP solution being rolled out for an automated operational and financial control, monitoring and evaluation of the organization and all its projects
- Big infrastructural facilities at all TF campuses can help upgrade the operations at each site
- TF – the mother body, being the single largest social change agent in rural Balochistan, having established a respectable brand name; is thereby able to undertake new interventions with adequate credibility
- Broadband connectivity at each site has enabled TFHI to deploy e-Health solutions to optimize the investment in technology
- Customized ERP roll-out is going to add transparency, operational supervision, financial controls and efficiency in the organization
- Government of Balochistan willing to finance and replicate TFHI e-Clinic Project across the province
- Multiple use of technological platform possible for adding more products of e-Health and e-Skills
- TFHI has the potential to run professional training in collaboration with its training partners across Pakistan to train primary health-care staff
- Replication of TFHI e-Clinic Project and other automation based health management solutions have great potential for franchise-based expansion and replication across the country
Challanges:
- Distantly located sites in Balochistan and other parts of the country
- Remoter operational areas with low HDI and socio-cultural taboos
- General unfriendly perception about Balochistan
- Non-affordable capital cost of expansion and maintenance
- Limited capacity of clients to pay for the user charges
- Lack of trained female staff in rural Balochistan
- Difficult to tap and retain good management professionals in hard areas
- Limited access and outreach in hard areas due to poor communication network and low broadband connectivity