BookElvira Beracochea, editor.
Summary: This direct, accessible guide uses a human rights perspective to define effectiveness in aid delivery and offer a robust framework for creating sustainable health programs and projects and assessing their progress. Geared toward hands-on professionals in such critical areas as food aid, maternal health, and disease control, it lays out challenges and solutions related to funding, planning, and complexity as individual projects feed into and impact larger health and development systems. Contributors clarify optimum roles of government, academia, NGOs, community organizations, and the private sector in aid delivery to inspire readers' broader and deeper uses of teamwork, communication, and imagination. Throughout, the guiding principles of justice, equity, and respect that underlie foundational documents such as the Millennium Declaration inform this visionary work. Included in the coverage: Assessing the effectiveness of health projects. Scaling-up of high-impact interventions. Aid effectiveness and private sector health organizations. When charity destroys dignity and sustainability. Effective conversations in global health projects. Lessons from the field on sustainability and effectiveness. For professionals in global health and development, Improving Aid Effectiveness in Global Health is a trusted and encouraging mentor. This volume gives its readers the necessary logistical and attitudinal tools to bring about lasting change, and shows how to use them meaningfully in both the short term and the long run.
Contents:
1. Global health and aid effectiveness: the MDGs and the Paris Declaration
2. Aid effectiveness in global health: progress, challenges and solutions
3. Realizing global health: effective health systems
4. Assessing andpromoting more progress in health; the role of health as a tracer secter at the OECD
5. The US Government's efforts to improve effectiveness
6. Assessing the effectiveness of health projects
7. The International Health Partnership
8. Paying for results: the Global Fund and the role of civil society organizations
9. NGOs putting the Paris Declaration to work
10. Scaling-up of high impact interventions
11. Aid effectiveness in working with private sector health organizations: the Smiling Sun Franchise
Effectiveness in primary healthcare in Peru
13. Academia's role in improving aid effectiveness in global health
14. When charity destroys dignity and sustainability
15. Aid effectiveness: the experience of Rwanda
16. How local organizations increase aid effectiveness: the experience of Peru
17. Food aid reform
18. The International Health Partnership: monitoring transparency and accountability
19. Social media and aid effectiveness
20. Advocating for results
21. Effectiveness of the census-based impact oriented approach
22. Effective advocacy for aid effectiveness
23. Personalizing health communication
24. Asking effective, powerful questions
25. Lessons on sustainability and effectiveness
26. What can global health professionals do to improve effectiveness
27. Conclusions on improving the effectiveness of aid in global health.