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Title: From the Report Building from Common Foundations: The World Health Organization and FaithBased Organ


1
From the ReportBuilding from Common
FoundationsThe World Health Organization and
Faith-Based Organizations in Primary Health Care
  • The Reverend Canon Ted Karpf
  • Office of the Director-General
  • Partnerships and UN Reform
  • World Health Organization

2
Setting the Context
  • Widespread health challenges in communities
    around the world include Malaria, Tuberculosis,
    HIV/AIDS, child survival, diseases exacerbated by
    climate change
  • Revival of the primary healthcare model within
    WHO as vertical silos tend to isolate diseases
    and mitigate against system-wide solutions
  • Primary Health Care offers the potential for
    greater breadth and effectiveness in treating,
    caring and prevention, by including FBOs
  • WHO to rejuvenate dialogue and partnership with
    FBOs

3
Key Findings of ARHAP Report 2006
  • FBOs provide at least 40 health care in
    developing countries
  • FBOs offer a wide range of treatment, care and
    prevention activities, along with social
    development and spiritual support services
  • FBOs Often more closely aligned with community
    needs
  • FBOs offer a range of assets and resources that
    could strengthen primary care health system
  • FBOs can function in accordance with WHO
    priorities and primary healthcare principles

4
Dilemmas and Complexities
  • Religious mission connects with health services
    through the value of compassion and commitment to
    decency, but can be linked to evangelism, which
    is negative to government
  • Issues of morality can cause tensions with some
    health interventions and strategies
  • Some faith groups tend to rely on a voluntary or
    more amateur models of service delivery
  • FBOs are challenged by standards and norms set
    by WHO and government ministries
  • Engaging with FBOs entails challenges, yet...

5
Basis of Common Interest
  • Roots of Alma Ata found in Christian Medical
    Commission and collaboration with WHO
  • An holistic approach to health and well-being -
    founded in values of compassion and decency
  • Benefits of partnership economy of effort,
    consistent and quality of care, community-based
    community-driven interventions
  • A track record of experience with WHO for six
    decades through a variety of health interventions

6
WHO Charter Health Principles
  • Health is a state of complete physical, mental
    and social well being and not merely the absence
    of disease or infirmity.
  • The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard
    of health is one of the fundamental rights of
    every human being without distinction of race,
    religion, political belief, economic or social
    condition.
  • The health of all peoples is fundamental to the
    attainment of peace and security and is dependent
    upon the fullest co-operation of individuals and
    States.
  • The achievement of any State in the promotion
    and protection of health is of value to all.

7
Areas for Collaboration Partnership
  • Potential to
  • deliver quality services valued by community and
    government
  • narrow gaps in national health planning
    programmes and systems
  • support and manage a coordinated network of FBO
    and other community health assets
  • FBO must work in systems of accountability
    monitoring and evaluation must be part of them
  • Opportunities for developing more comprehensive
    community-based health systems

8
Ways Forward
  • Engage in dialogue with faith communities and
    institutions among government and international
    organizations
  • Provide guidance for the engagement with
    religious health assets in international and
    national health system planning and programming
  • Engage FBOs when developing national health plans
  • Opportunity to spearhead pilot programmes of
    health system re-engineering

9
Ways Forward continued
  • Develop the concept of primary health care
    consensus
  • Promote constructive relationships between FBO
    and government
  • Develop relationships among Faith-Based
    Development Agencies and governments
    international organizations
  • Support FBOs and FBDAs to develop proposals to
  • Support health financing
  • Ensure recruitment and retention of staff
  • Establish monitoring and evaluation frameworks

10
Conclusions
  • Much can be achieved in renewed interaction and
    cooperation between WHO and FBOs
  • Clear, long-term commitment to dialogue and
    collaboration and mutual learning
  • Next steps
  • A road map developed with stakeholders
  • Embark together

11
Thank you
  • Together
  • The objective of the World Health Organization
    shall be the attainment by all peoples of the
    highest possible level of health.
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