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October 22, 2015

Learn Governing in the Context of Health in Eight Hours: USAID Unveils New Governance and Health eLearning Certificate Program [2]

[2]Illustration of a typical discussion in a public hospital governing board.Source: Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

This post originally appeared on K4Health's Blog [4] and the Leadership, Management & Governance (LMG) Project Blog [5].

I struggled with the plateauing or even declining performance of a health service delivery organization I was supporting. I agonized over weaning another such organization away from relying on aid and becoming self-reliant. I spent sleepless nights wondering why yet another health sector organization was adrift, and how I could help it get onto a steady course and in a definitive direction.

Increasingly, I am convinced that the answer lies in improving how these organizations are governed.

Six Lessons Learned From ‘Unleashing the Power of Good Governance’ [7]

Health Systems Strengthening [3]

[7]Photo credit: Warren Zelman

The benefits of good health governance are far-reaching: Leaders who govern facilitate the work of health managers. Health managers facilitate the work of health service providers.
- Management Sciences for Health

On May 11-13, 2015, the USAID-funded Leadership, Management & Governance (LMG) Project [8], led by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), conducted an online seminar on LeaderNet [9] titled Unleash the Power of Good Governance [10]. Over the three-day seminar, 93 participants representing 75 organizations in 36 countries discussed challenges to good governance among public and civil society organizations, and how to overcome them. The seminar was offered in three languages: English, French and Spanish, and encouraged learning through source materials, the facilitators, and one another.

Three themes emerged from among the online discussion threads:

The Best of Both Worlds: Training Using Live and Virtual Tools [12]

Jarret Cassaniti [13]

Health Systems Strengthening [3]

Karen Chio of MSH developed the K4Health Blended Learning Guide in collaboration with Liz McLean of MSH and Sara Mazursky and Lisa Mwaikambo of JHU-CCP (2013).

[12]Karen Chio of MSH developed the K4Health Blended Learning Guide in collaboration with Liz McLean of MSH and Sara Mazursky and Lisa Mwaikambo of JHU-CCP (2013).

Cross-posted with permission from the K4Health blog [14]. K4Health is a USAID [15] project, led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs [16] (JHU-CCP), with partners FHI-360 [17] and Management Sciences for Health [18] (MSH).

Read more [12]

Links
[1] https://msh.org/blog/2015/10/22/learn-governing-in-the-context-of-health-in-eight-hours-usaid-unveils-new-governance#comments
[2] https://msh.org/blog/2015/10/22/learn-governing-in-the-context-of-health-in-eight-hours-usaid-unveils-new-governance
[3] https://msh.org/blog-categories/health-systems-strengthening
[4] https://www.k4health.org/blog/post/learn-governing-context-health-eight-hours-usaid-unveils-new-governance-and-health
[5] http://www.lmgforhealth.org/blog/2015-10-19/learn-governing-context-health-eight-hours-usaid-unveils-new-governance-and-health
[6] https://msh.org/blog/2015/06/26/six-lessons-learned-from-%E2%80%98unleashing-the-power-of-good-governance%E2%80%99#comments
[7] https://msh.org/blog/2015/06/26/six-lessons-learned-from-%E2%80%98unleashing-the-power-of-good-governance%E2%80%99
[8] http://www.LMGforHealth.org
[9] http://www.LeaderNet.org
[10] http://leadernet.org/groups/seminar/unleash-the-power-of-good-governance/
[11] https://msh.org/blog/2013/04/04/the-best-of-both-worlds-training-using-live-and-virtual-tools#comments
[12] https://msh.org/blog/2013/04/04/the-best-of-both-worlds-training-using-live-and-virtual-tools
[13] https://msh.org/users/jarret-cassaniti
[14] http://www.k4health.org/blog/post/best-both-worlds-training-using-live-and-virtual-tools
[15] http://www.usaid.gov/
[16] http://www.jhuccp.org/
[17] http://www.fhi360.org/
[18] http://www.msh.org