A challenging economy, uncertain political support and evolving health technologies call for innovation, collaboration and fresh thinking for all members of the reproductive health community. Clinical practices in the United States are responding to these challenges by testing and implementing shared support services and information systems, driven by the economic downturn, emergence of electro...

members of the 67th world health assembly in 2014 were presented with a framework document to guide world health organization (who) engagement with non-state actors, a key part of who reform kick-started in 2011. according to this document, non-state actors include four distinct constituencies: i) nongovernmental organizations (ngos), ii) private sector entities; iii) philanthropic foundations;...

The paper aims to explore a conceptual framework in which improvement on waqf management may be made focusing on its relationship with beneficiaries. The study uses accountability as the main theoretical lens informing this, where waqf management does not merely see beneficiaries as the passenger in the relationship, rather, as one of the means to improve waqf management. Drawing from NGO accou...

BACKGROUND The provision of health care in South Africa has been compromised by the loss of trained health workers (HWs) over the past 20 years. The public-sector workforce is overburdened. There is a large disparity in service levels and workloads between the private and public sectors. There is little knowledge about the nonfinancial factors that influence HWs choice of employer (public, priv...

Traditionally, trustees or board of directors reinforce governance mechanisms (Smillie & Hailey, 2001). In the case of an organisation that has made deliberate efforts to avoid hierarchy, and implement a participatory, decentralized collectivist structure, traditional governance can be challenged. The literature suggests that non-governmental organizations (NGO), even those that intentionally w...

Technical assistance (TA) has a long and varied history as a development practice. It initially emerged as a set of ‘hard’ programs, tools, and technologies delivered to developing countries by imported First World experts, typically in the agricultural and resource sectors. Later, in response to critical and antidevelopment theories, TA morphed into its ‘soft’ version, attempting to empower ma...

AbstractWe use Benford’s Law to investigate inaccurate financial reports of a representative sample Ugandan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We find that 25% the provided informat...

Globally, unmet need for family planning remains high, branded or franchised clinics, pharmacies or drug sellers or and in developed and developing countries alike, women and men face challenges accessing both accurate information about contraception and contraceptive supplies. Contraceptive social marketing programs offer creative, effective and successful strategies to provide reproductive he...

Since the end of August 2008, renewed fighting in North Kivu, a province in the north-eastern quadrant of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has displaced at least 250 000 people. It has also made an already difficult situation worse for more than a million people living without clean water, food or access to health care. Even before the latest hostilities, health facilities in the cou...

Analysis of the role of NGOs as mediators of change may yield important theoretical insights into the processes by which neoliberalizing projects become embedded in and consequently transformed by specific settings. In recent decades, NGOs have played an important role in mediating intertwined and often contradictory processes of political and economic liberalization in countries around the glo...