Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
Good Governance Leads to Better Global Health
June 2012

Highlights

Smart Governance for Health: Why G4H Matters 


LMG web Smart governance for health (G4H) engages stakeholders and facilitates the work of managers and leaders within a community's -- or country's -- health sector, blogs the project director of USAID's new Leadership, Management and Governance project, led by MSH. Read More.

10 Years of the LDP: Supporting Adaptations and Improvements in Leadership Development 


The MSH Leadership Development Program (LDP) has reached more than 40 countries over the past ten years since it was first developed in 2002 in Egypt.
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Pharmaceutical Leadership Development Program Piloted in South African Provinces 


PLDP South Africa Pharmacy managers in South Africa now have the opportunity to apply leadership and management principles to develop actionable and measurable results.
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Developing Senior Health Leaders in Kenya 


LMS Kenya LEHHO, award Mungai The Leading High Performing Healthcare Organizations program, the first program of its kind in Kenya, addresses senior health executives' additional professional training needs by improving leadership skills and health systems strengthening knowledge and expertise.
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Leadership Development Helps Improve Vaccination Services in South Sudan 


South Sudan, midwife vaccinates baby Staff at a health center in Juba  completed Leadership Development Program training through the Sudan Health Transformation Project, phase two (SHTP II), helping the team face a number of operational challenges.
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Egypt's Improving Performance of Nurses Project Helps Cardiac Patients in Qena General Hospital 


Egypt IPN Nurse, v2 A team of hospital nurses apply management and leadership skills to improve the quality of cardiac patient care and their work climate.
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The Leadership Development Program in Guyana: A Compendium of Successes 


LDP nursing tutor in Guyana Since 2005, the Leadership Development Program, designed by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), has been strengthening organizations in Guyana by developing the leadership capacity of staff members at all levels.
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Profile

FANIKISHA Project Strengthens Kenyan Civil Society Organizations, Country Ownership: A Conversation with Dr. Daraus Bukenya 

 

"Civil society organizations are key actors in a comprehensive health system. In Kenya, they are on the frontline of health service delivery at the community level," says Dr. Daraus Bukenya, FANIKISHA's project director and MSH's country representative for Kenya, in a conversation with MSH about civil society organizations and governance in Kenya. Read More.

More MSH News

Improving Water, Sanitation, and Health: Itarchi Hakimabad, Afghanistan  

After an initial session through USAID's Afghan Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation (SWSS) project, villagers mobilized to convert Itarchi Hakimabad into an open defecation-free (ODF) village.
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Institutional Strengthening Marketplace for Kenyan Civil Society Organizations  

The USAID-funded FANIKISHA Institutional Strengthening Project is working to strengthen the impact of civil society organizations' health care contributions, and to encourage a more strategic role for them in Kenya.
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How Effective Governance Benefits Health (Video)

LMG Video on Governance for Better Health
Mahesh Shukla, MSH employee and senior technical advisor for governance on USAID's Leadership, Management, and Governance (LMG) project, discusses the connection between good governance in the health sector and providing people worldwide with better health services. Watch video

 
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A Note from Dr. Quick
Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH
"Good governance in health care matters at all levels of the health system," says MSH President Dr. Jonathan Quick.

"Good governance, which is ethical and cost-effective, is essential to unleash good management and leadership -- from villages to parliaments."

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Leadership, Management and Governance (LMG)

The USAID-funded LMG project, led by MSH, is collaborating with health leaders, managers, and policy-makers at all levels to show that investments in leadership, management, and governance lead to stronger health systems, and improved health for all.

Roundtable Seeks Way Forward on Governance for Health
The LMG project brought together 30 well-known governance and international health experts for a day of presentations and discussion about governance in the health sector in low-and middle-income countries.
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