Improving Aid Effectiveness in Global Health
This direct, accessible guide uses a human rights perspective to define effectiveness in aid delivery and offer a robust framework for creating sustainable health programs and projects and assessing their progress. Geared toward hands-on professionals in
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Improving Aid Effectiveness in Global Health
Improving Aid Effectiveness in Global Health
Elvira Beracochea Editor
Improving Aid Effectiveness in Global Health
Editor Elvira Beracochea Realizing Global Health Inc. Fairfax, VA, USA
ISBN 978-1-4939-2720-3 ISBN 978-1-4939-2721-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-2721-0
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Preface
I believe we are all destined to do big things. Sadly, some of us do not know it and never get to make the impact they were destined it to make. I believe reading this book you may not know it yet, but you can make a big impact on global health; in fact, you can make history. If you want to make a bigger impact and help save more lives, I think you are in good company. I think you can and in doing so you can make history in a small or big way, but you will make history anyway. I believe all global health professionals want to achieve big goals, not to boost our ego, but because it is the just thing we chose or were called to do. How? We work to prevent preventable deaths, fulfill the right to health and change injustice into justice, and inefficient health systems into self-reliant sustainable health systems that deliver quality health care to everyone, everywhere, every day. Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” I know it sounds cliche but I do believe that. Global Health professionals are being the change now more than ever after we learned how from almost 10 years of working hard to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals. We want to be the change in global health and we want our employers, clients, and partners to be the change too. We must all work together and make changes in a way that is reliab
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