New Brief!
Decentralization and Governance
Jun 30 2008
With almost all countries developing or implementing some form of decentralization, health initiatives targeting control of specific diseases, as well as projects that work on broader health systems restructuring, will be influenced by these decentralization efforts.
It is important to assess the degree and types of decentralization and to formulate strategies for promoting more effective decentralization, or at the least learning to cope with and manage within decentralized systems. This paper presents some of the basic governance issues related to decentralization and examples of how projects and donor policies have contributed to more effective decentralization processes. Click here to download the brief.
Source: Health Systems 20/20
