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  • Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
    Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
    by Dambisa Moyo

    Recommended by: Ro

This is a call to the living,
To those who refuse to make peace with evil,
With the suffering and the waste of the world.
This is a call to the human, not the perfect,
To those who know their own prejudices
Who have no intention of becoming prisoners of their own limitations.
This is a call to those who remember the dreams of their youth,
who know what it means to share foot and shelter
The care of children and those who are troubled,
To reach beyond barriers of the past bringing people to communion.
            
This is a call to the never ending spirit of the common man,             
His essential decency and integrity,    
His unending capacity to suffer and endure,  
To face death and destruction and to rise again        
And build from the ruins of life.
This is the greatest call of all
The call to a faith in people.

 

From: Algernon D. Black, former senior leader, New York Society for Ethical Culture

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The WWHPS Approach: The Five Principles

The WWHPS mission is to create a truly self-sustaining improvement in the healthcare delivery system which not only endures, but evolves.   As such, the WWHPS approach is guided by five principles:

Understanding: Bringing longstanding change to a system as large and complicated as the health care delivery system requires an understanding of the culture, behavior, and attitudes of the patients and staff, the policies of local and national officials, and the condition of the physical structures.  Without proper understanding, even the best intentions will have unintended consequences.  We believe that a “bottom-up” approach is essential to gaining that understanding.

Replicability: We are not building a single model health center, but a vehicle for changing all health centers in the healthcare delivery system.

Comprehensiveness: The CCHIPs model is comprehensive along three dimensions:  1) it reaches downward to include the community health workers and upward to the referral system to the district hospitals.  2) it encompasses the entire health care spectrum including treatment, preventive care, and educational programs.  And 3)  it covers all aspects of health system management, including medical protocols and procedures; preventive care programs; management structure, processes, and reporting; and infrastructure improvements.

Collaboration: There are many stakeholders in the health care delivery system.  Health center staff, local government, and policymakers need to be partners in the work to embrace the changes as their own.  In addition, collaboration with NGOs provides the opportunity to share costs and insights.

Empowerment: Ultimately, the changes that we champion will be delivered by Rwandans, for Rwandans.  We are not giving people fish but rather teaching people how to fish. We believe we must empower people.