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Exploring challenges in health transition planning
HEART talks
July 18, 2019

Effective health planning is critical in ensuring affordable, accessible, and high quality health services for all. Many low- and middle-income countries rely on donor funding to establish or maintain the basic healthcare services, and often struggle to ensure sustainability of these when sources of funding in the sector change. Multilateral organisations and government partners have… Read more

health systems, health transition planning, transition planning
Health
Improving health system resilience in fragile and conflict-affected countries
HEART talks
July 18, 2019

According to the World Bank, fragility, conflict, and violence is a critical development challenge that threatens efforts to end extreme poverty, affecting both low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Many of the world’s crises are caused by or exacerbated by fragility, from violent conflict to internal and external displacements and climate shocks. Compared to other LMICs, fragile… Read more

conflict-affected states, fragile states, health systems, resilience
Health
How can countries get the most out of their investments in health?
HEART talks
July 18, 2019

The ability of countries to provide available, affordable, and high quality healthcare services to their populations has become a global priority. However, at least half of the population around the world still don’t have access to essential healthcare, and around 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty because they have to pay for healthcare. Universal… Read more

investment in health, UHC, universal health coverage
Role of the private sector in production and distribution of long lasting insecticide treated nets for malaria control
Helpdesk Report
September 5, 2017

This report provides a review of key literature and evidence on the LLINs and private sector. The evidence base for this report is vast and spans more than twenty years of research evidence, policy documents and implementation programme evaluations and data from sub Saharan Africa and Asia. The relevant literature spans academic publications in biological… Read more

Health, Malaria, Private Sector
Social Protection
Disability in Syria
Helpdesk Report
July 20, 2017

This rapid review is based on 5 days of desk-based research. It is designed to provide a brief overview of the key issues, and a summary of pertinent evidence found within the time permitted. The literature was identified using two methods. Firstly, a number of experts were identified and contacted. They were asked to provide… Read more

Conflict, Disability, governance, humanitarian crises, refugees, Rights, Social Protection
Sport and development
Helpdesk Report
July 6, 2017

Some individual studies noted factors for success and what did not work well. However, there was not enough evidence to get a synthesis on barriers and enablers to sport for development in general. Often programmes in the literature were described but rarely evaluated. Where they were evaluated, specific features contributing to success or otherwise were… Read more

Development Policy, Sport
Health
Health responses to humanitarian crises
HEART talks
October 24, 2016

This HEART Talks is a presentation from a humanitarian health seminar held at DFID 29th July 2016. In the video below DFID health adviser Chris Lewis talks about two of the HEART reading packs. The first is Health Responses to Humanitarian Crises and the second is Humanitarian Overview From Principles to Coordination. Humanitarian crises are important as they contribute… Read more

humanitarian crises, humanitarian health
Operational Handbook for Country-based Pooled Funds
Document Library
February 26, 2016

Country-based Pooled Funds (CBPFs) are multi-donor humanitarian financing instruments established by the Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) and managed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) at the country level under the leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC). While OCHA has managed humanitarian pooled funds at the country level since 1995, CBPFs… Read more

Country-based Pooled Funds
Health
Who pays for progress? The role of domestic resource mobilisation and development assistance in financing health. A case study from Kenya.
Document Library
July 27, 2015

Kenya has one of the most vibrant economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic growth is strong, and in 2014 it was announced that Kenya had crossed the threshold from a ‘low-Income country’ to a ‘lower-middle-Income country’ (LMIC). Yet, 43% of the people live on less than $1.25 a day and in some parts of Kenya only… Read more

Aid, health financing, Kenya
Health
Tim Martineau on the Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Working Group
HEART talks
July 22, 2015

Tim Martineau is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management (HRM) at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and leads a growing team working on health workforce issues. In this video, he talks about the Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Working Group, a subgroup of Health Systems Global which is a society for… Read more

Conflict, fragile states, Health, Health Research, Health Service Delivery
Health
Operational modelling and its potential for facilitating in-country policy decision making on uptake and implementation of new tools
HEART talks
May 7, 2015

Newly developed diagnostic tools and algorithms face a number of barriers in effective implementation. Policy makers need to make rational decisions on whether to go ahead and invest in new innovations for health and how. Should a new diagnostic test replace or be used in combination with an existing method? What are the access costs… Read more

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