From Humanitarian and Post-conflict Assistance to Health System Strengthening in Fragile States: Clarifying the Transition and the Role of NGOs
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The U.S. Agency for International Development’s strategy for fragile states recognizes the importance of providing health and other key social services as part of humanitarian emergency response and post-conflict interventions (USAID 2005). Concentrating on health needs is critical for dealing with immediate epidemiological crises (Checchi et al. 2007), restoring state functioning, and contributing to reducing the sources of fragility, such as social exclusion, low state legitimacy, and weak state effectiveness (Brinkerhoff 2007a, Jones et al. 2006). Among the challenges donors face in providing health sector assistance to fragile states is moving from emergency assistance to programs designed to support long-term health sector goals and capacities. As Waldman (2006: 18) notes, “there is not much experience in the health sector with what might be called transitional programming.” From Humanitarian and Post-conflict Assistance to Health System Strengthening in Fragile States: Clarifying the Transition and the Role of NGOs
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