Blogs tagged: Editorial

Rural Service Delivery: Business Acumen Trumps All Else?

Any project which uses the informal private sector and entrepreneurship as the basis to deliver services in underserved areas involves risk. The common temptation is to minimize the risk by starting small, but the development sector is strewn with small projects which produced great results but could neither be replicated nor matched with similar results when scaled up. Getting a donor who will support risk on scale is the first hurdle.

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Non Communicable Diseases: Not Just for the Rich

On September 19-20, 2011, the UN General Assembly will convene a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), an affirmation that prevention and control of NCDs is finally reaching the global public health agenda. Often thought of as “...

Database at a Glance – What does a program’s primary funding source tell us?

In this second blog post from the Inside the Database series, we look at a key variable from the CHMI Programs Database – primary source of funding. Many people ask us about funding: How can their programs get more, how other programs are funded and...

New on the CHMI Blog: Database at a Glance

Editor’s Note: Starting this month, we will begin presenting cross-sections of the database on the CHMI Blog to underscore trends our programs database is uncovering in countries where the private sector delivers the majority of health care....