Regional migration governance – building block of global initiatives?

Global health initiatives in Africa – governance, priorities, harmonisation and alignment

BACKGROUND The advent of global health initiatives (GHIs) has changed the landscape and architecture of health financing in low and middle income countries, particularly in Africa. Over the last decade, the African Region has realised improvements in health outcomes as a result of interventions implemented by both governments and development partners. However, alignment and harmonisation of par...

Regional initiatives for malaria elimination: Building and maintaining partnerships

Andrew Lover and colleagues discuss regional malaria initiatives, the strengths and challenges.

Building coherence and synergy among global health initiatives.

BACKGROUND The fast growth of global health initiatives (GHIs) has raised concerns regarding achievement of coherence and synergy among distinct, complementary and sometimes competing activities. Herein, we propose an approach to compare GHIs with regard to their main purpose and operational aspects, using the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR/WHO) as a case ...

Building regional governance in England: The view from Whitehall

Constitutional arrangements in parts of the UK have been transformed by political devolution. In the English regions the Government has pursued a more cautious approach based upon reinforcing the regional tier through administrative decentralisation. Nonetheless, such reforms represent a significant strengthening of the machinery of regional governance and open up opportunities for the recalibr...

Global initiatives.