Short List of Topics for Prioritizing and Defining Future Work Related to Health Sector Non-Governmental Organizations. Special Initiatives Report No. 13

摘要

This report provides a short list of topics and activities related to the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in health sector reform and health service delivery. The Partnerships for Health Reform (PHR) developed this list to help prioritize the topics and types of activities that should be pursued under its Special Initiative on NGOs. The report builds on a literature review on NGOs role in the health sector, with emphasis on NGO sustainability, as well as on an informal internal expert meeting of PHR staff and consultants. The document is organized into three main sections. Section 1 states that purpose and overall objective for this Initiative and explains the use of the document. Section 2 identifies the strategic and operational parameters of the NGO Special Initiative and presents a typology as well as selection criteria for choosing appropriate topics and NGOs for each PHR activity. Section 3 briefly describes four NGO topics and suggests related activities that PHR could undertake.