RGH Video Blog: RGH 100 – The 3 S’s for Governments to Succeed in Global Health
Welcome to Realizing Global Health. My name is Dr. Elvira Beracochea and I am the president and CEO of Realizing Global Health. We are a company working to realize global health and we look for ways we can help all of our partners, NGOs, faith-based organizations, governments, local organizations, etc., make a bigger impact in global health. Today, I want to talk about a different mindset in global health and pose the question: What can you achieve in just 100 days?
That is what we do in the RGH 100 program. It is a program that allows you to achieve very measurable and tangible milestones every ten days. This will help you improve the health of the community because you transform a health center, a clinic, or a hospital in just 100 days. You empower the team in that health facility to achieve milestones that progressively take them to a level in which they can demonstrate that they can deliver quality health services consistently—everyday, everywhere to everyone that comes into that health facility.
How do we do that? We help you put the necessary health systems in place. We show you how you can really take this program to scale. So if you work for a government agency and you want to look for ways to bring your programs to scale, the RGH 100 program allows you to do that because it builds the platform. It puts the systems in place so that you can implement HIV/AIDS programs, family-planning programs, and more because you already have the foundation. The health system has the capacity to deliver health services. There is understanding of what it is to put processes in place, what a program is, and how you transform that program into a package of services that meets the needs of the community. That is how you bring scale, at the same time, you are also bringing sustainability. Sustainability means that your investment in global health is going to last and last, beyond the life of the project.
Finally, the third “S” is that you bring satisfaction. You get to see how communities realize that they now have a health facility that is going to respond to their needs. They are going to come to a health facility that is going to welcome them, is friendly, clean, knows what they are doing, and can demonstrate quality in the health services they deliver.
So, if you have a program in a developing country and you want to take it to the next level, please join us in the next webinar to learn more about improving aid effectiveness, I invite you to sign up for the free RGH webinar entitled “Aid Effectiveness in Global Health: Getting Back to Basics in Global Health”.
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