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Café Questions
1. How can we be effective in health delivery in Africa countries?
2. What is my role in health delivery in African countries?
In many countries in Africa, people are becoming poorer and sicker in spite of increased investment to fight disease and poverty. We want to know why, and we call on you to join us exploring this problem with a view to discover how we can do things differently.
We see in sub-Saharan Africa a relevance paradox, in which highly relevant projects bring about negative results and unintended consequences.
Relevance paradoxes occur because of implementation of projects without awareness of the social or individual tacit knowledge within a target community. The understanding of the individual and the social tacit knowledge in a given community, which is a function of knowledge emergence, is the foundation of effectiveness in health delivery in Africa.
Background of the Problem
Traditional salient stakeholders of global health include (a) members of the international development community (e.g., the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations Organizations, and the International Monetary Fund); and (b) country governments. Perversely, the fringe stakeholders of global health are the local nationals of African countries, diaspora nationa
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