Building hospital management capacity in Ethiopia and Rwanda

Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia

“The Engineering Capacity Building Program” in Ethiopia

Capacity building helps pastoral women transform impoverished communities in Ethiopia.

Poverty, drought, and hunger devastate people on Africa's rangelands. We used an action-oriented approach from 2000 to 2004 to build capacity among thousands of pastoralists to diversify livelihoods, improve living standards, and enhance livestock marketing. The process included collective action, microfinance, and participatory education. Poor women previously burdened by domestic chores becam...

In-hospital capacity-building in research and management for pediatric professionals.

We describe an educational strategy aimed at capacity-building of hospital health care professionals in research and management initiated at a pediatric hospital in 2006, and the results obtained eight years after its implementation. Research and Management in Pediatrics (GIP) is an annual 250-hour course combining meetings and off-site assignments delivered through the Hospital's on-line campu...

assessment of hospital management and surge capacity in disasters

conclusions in this study, some characteristics that had a positive impact on the success of a manager in a hospital surge situation were identified. these characteristics ought to be taken into account when appointing hospital administrators and designing training programs for hospital administrators with the aim of being better prepared to face disasters. background hospital administrators pl...