Like many other non governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide assistance to vulnerable populations living in difficult and resource-limited settings, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is confronted with situations for which proven, effective interventions are often lacking and/or where there is need for strong advocacy for improving medical care. As a result, MSF has become an important contr...

Several international conservation organizations (ICOs) created in the developed world to promote conservation in the tropics are now extremely outspoken and powerful, due in large measure to their access to capital. We acknowledge that ICOs have been critical stakeholders in shaping international environmental policies. We also recognize that there have been successful collaborations between I...

The need for evidence-based practice calls for research focussing not only on the effectiveness of interventions and their translation into policies, but also on implementation processes and the factors influencing them, in particular for complex health system policies. In this paper, we use the lens of one of the health system's 'building blocks', human resources for health (HRH), to examine t...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to describe HIV prevention programs conducted by nongovernmental organizations (NGO) that are meeting this challenge. METHODS One NGO undertaking HIV prevention programs was evaluated in each of the 23 countries participating in the Global AIDS Intervention Network (GAIN) Project throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. A two-stage selection process...

Across the third world, the discourse on civil society has remained a key feature of democracy promotion initiatives. Scholars evaluating the potential for democracy in these developing states and activists seeking to effect democratic reforms have focused much of their attention on civic associations. They argue that civil societies help to hold states account­ able, represent citizen interest...

This article is dedicated to consideration of the role and place non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in context social investment. The main NGOs investment that they are invertors, which a driving force behind implementation many necessary for society projects. acuteness issue Ukraine’s recovery leads growing demand new effective methods interaction between state society, investments from can...

Sixteen years earlier -in 1978 -WFPHA had developed a position paper representing the views of the international nongovernmental community that was presented at the International Conference on Primary Health Care held in Alma-Ata, of the former Kazakh SSR. That paper expressed the enthusiastic support of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for the goal of ‘Health for All’ by the Year 2000 thro...