Assigning Technical Officers to Ministries of Health: A Management Study

摘要

This report presents the results of a case study that investigated the primarystrategy for in-country management of the Africa Child Survival Initiative-Combatting Childhood Communicable Diseases (ACSI-CCCD) Project: the assignment of long-term Technical Officers (TOs) to Ministries of Health (MOHs). The objectives of the study were: to identify TO skills that were important for the successful implementation of the project; to document the effect of assigning TOs to Ministries of Health in the implementation of the ACSI-CCCD Project; and to identify country-specific characteristics that would help enhance the ability of TOs to successfully implement the project. It concluded that assigning TOs to the MOHs was a very important and useful strategy for implementing the ACSI-CCCD Project in participating countries. Its advantages, however, should be viewed in the context of the many other factors which are also critical. This study attempts to document some of those factors in the hope they will be considered when designing future development projects.