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Improving Aid Effectiveness in Global Health

  • The only book to address the technical and practical aspects of delivering effective global health results

  • Serves as a training guide to all global health practitioners

  • Outlines more effective ways of working together, demonstrating tangible results towards common global health goals

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. What Is Effectiveness and How to Measure It

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Projects

      • Richard Blue, John Eriksson, George Grob, Kelly Skeith (Heindel)
      Pages 93-107
  3. What Is Being Done to Improve Effectiveness?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
    2. The International Health Partnership

      • Tim Shorten, Shaun Conway
      Pages 111-118
    3. Paying for Results: The Global Fund and the Role of Civil Society Organizations

      • Cristina de Nicolás Izquierdo, Ruth Hope
      Pages 119-126
    4. NGOs Putting the Paris Declaration to Work

      • James N. Gribble
      Pages 127-137
    5. Scaling-Up of High Impact Interventions

      • Rashad Massoud, Nana Mensah Abrampah
      Pages 139-147
    6. Effectiveness in Primary Healthcare in Peru

      • Laura C. Altobelli
      Pages 161-170
    7. Academia’s Role in Improving Aid Effectiveness in Global Health

      • Padmini Murthy, Amy Ansehl, Aishwarya Narasimhadevara
      Pages 171-179
  4. Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
    2. When Charity Destroys Dignity and Sustainability

      • Glenn J. Schwartz
      Pages 183-195
    3. Aid Effectiveness: The Experience of Rwanda

      • Agnes Binagwaho
      Pages 197-203

About this book

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, 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.

 

Reviews

“This is a multi-author book aimed at health professionals working in global health, who wish to improve the effectiveness of their work. It identifies measures of aid effectiveness and how its progress can be monitored. … My overall impression of this book is that it is useful and very informative, full of important and relevant guidance predicated on the experience of various contributors … .” (Shirley Hodgson, Medicine Conflict and Survival, Vol. 31 (3-4), 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Realizing Global Health Inc, Fairfax, USA

    Elvira Beracochea

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Improving Aid Effectiveness in Global Health

  • Editors: Elvira Beracochea

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2721-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4633-4Published: 22 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2721-0Published: 04 September 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 370

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Public Health

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eBook USD 59.99
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Softcover Book USD 79.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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