Working in Fragile Contexts and Building up Resilient Health Systems
To end preventable child and maternal deaths, create an AIDS-Free Generation, and protect communities against infectious diseases such as Ebola, we need effective, functional health systems that can deliver essential health services to those in need.
International health organisations are more and more obliged to work in fragile contexts where the environment is marked by instability, the public structures are weak or quick to collapse and the rule of law is lacking. If we want to achieve the Agenda 2030 we need to come up with smarter and more cost-effective, responsive investments in health that create synergies among people, communities and health systems to achieve resilience.