Lessons from 20 Years of Capacity Building for Health Systems Thinking

Reich, Michael R. ; Yazbeck, Abdo S. ; Berman, Peter ; Bitran, Ricardo ; Bossert, Thomas ; Escobar, Maria-Luisa ; Hsiao, William C. ; Johansen, Anne S. ; Samaha, Hadia ; Shaw, Paul ; Yip, Winnie

Taylor and Francis

关键词: capacity building;    health sector reform;    health systems;    leadership training;    sustainable financing;   

DOI  :  10.1080/23288604.2016.1220775
RP-ID  :  111064

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

In 2016, the Flagship Program for improving health systems performance and equity, a partnership for leadership development between the World Bank and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and other institutions, celebrates 20 years of achievement. Set up at a time when development assistance for health was growing exponentially, the Flagship Program sought to bring systems thinking to efforts at health sector strengthening and reform. Capacity-building and knowledge transfer mechanisms are relatively easy to begin but hard to sustain, yet the Flagship Program has continued for two decades and remains highly demanded by national governments and development partners. In this article, we describe the process used and the principles employed to create the Flagship Program and highlight some lessons from its two decades of sustained success and effectiveness in leadership development for health systems improvement.