Promoting Capacity Building: Discussion Essay

Building Robust Systems an essay

It is hard to build robust systems: systems that have accept­ able behavior over a larger class of situations than was anticipated by their designers. The most robust systems are evolvable: they can be easily adapted to new situations with only minor mod­ ification. How can we design systems that are flexible in this way? Observations of biological systems tell us a great deal about how to make...

National public health law: a role for WHO in capacity-building and promoting transparency

A robust health infrastructure in every country is the most effective long-term preparedness strategy for global health emergencies. This includes not only health systems and their human resources, but also countries' legal infrastructure for health: the laws and policies that empower, obligate and sometimes limit government and private action. The law is also an important tool in health promot...

Capacity building in Nepal*

There’s an old saying: “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.” But do we believe this? Many health care providers sacrifice their time and money to provide medical aid to underserved populations in remote environments. But is this helpful? Underserved populations need more than just another doctor. Short-term medical aid, with the exception of disa...

Productivity and Capacity Building

“Productivity and Capacity Building”, may not be far from the nascent realization of the primacy and centrality of humans in economic development and growth process of a nation an aspect of the problem that falls into the mandates of my organisation – the National Manpower Board (NMB). This, no doubt, agrees with the enfolding major developmental paradigm shift to a new programme with profound ...

Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia