URC was the lead implementer for the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) cooperative agreement of the Office of Health Systems in USAID’s Global Health Bureau.

URC and its partners achieved its objectives of:

• Fostering improvements in a range of healthcare processes through the application of modern improvement methods by host-country providers and managers
• Building the capacity of host-country systems to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, client-centeredness, safety, accessibility, and equity of the healthcare services provided
• Generating new knowledge to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of applying improvement methods in low- and middle-income countries
• Strengthening maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and family planning/reproductive health services in Zika-affected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.