Lesotho

The impact of GHIs on the architecture of development partnerships and national-level health system management functions

Study Aim

This study is part of a four year research project (INCO) among five African countries that aims to understand how the rise of GHIs has impacted the architecture of development partnerships and national-level health system management functions:

• To assess the impact of GHIs and of donor dependency on country-level decision-making and planning processes
• To assess the impact of GHIs on country human resource policies, deployment and effectiveness, and/or on competition for human resources for programme planning, management and service delivery
• To evaluate how the proliferation of GHIs has influenced the within-country praxis of development assistance for health
• And to identify best practices to integrate new GHIs within existing partnerships and country systems in a way that improves the coherence of development assistance and the co-ordination and efficacy of the health system

Themes

Themes include the national effects of Global Health Initiatives on:

• National policy development
• Financial flow
• Public-private partnerships
• Planning and coordination
• Management and M&E
• Human Resources for Health
• Resources and commodities
• Service scale-up

Contact Principal Investigator

• Elsie Makoa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lesotho (et.makoa@yahoo.com)

Research Partners

• University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa
  
• University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa
• Centro de Estudos Avancados em Educacao e Formacao Médica (CEDUMED), Luanda, Angola
• Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITMA), Antwerp, Belgium
• Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT), Lisbon, Portugal
• Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Dublin, Ireland

Research Funders

EU INCO-DEV programme