Partnerships for Women's Health: Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact
Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy or childbirth complications while twenty more suffer injury, infection, or disease. Despite medical advances and years of national and international policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries.\ This book draws together insights and experiences of development practitioners, policymakers, academic experts, and private sector partners to describe the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). A...
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Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy or childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of national and international policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental human right. This book draws together insights and experiences of development practitioners, policy makers, academic experts and private sector partners to describe the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a public private partnership based in India. Informed by growing literature on such partnerships, the WHI sought to implement a project that would make a real difference in women's lives, simultaneous with meeting private sector commercial imperatives.
Figures ixTables xiBoxes xiiiContributors xvForeword Mary Robinson xxiAcknowledgements xxviiIntroduction: Women's health through PPP within the UN Global Compact-At the nexus of business, ethics and human rights Martina Timmermann 1Part A Contextual Frame of Reference 29Section I MDGs, human rights, the UN Global Compact and public private partnerships 311 Improving maternal health in Asia and Africa: Challenges and opportunities Moazzam Ali2 Poverty, health and the human right to the highest attainable standard of health Paul Hunt Judith Bueno de Mesquita 633 Partnering in support of the right to health: What role for business? Klaus M. Leisinger 854 The challenge of equal financial access to the best available health care: Bringing in the private sector Günter Neubauer Iris J. Driessle 1055 The United Nations Global Compact: Seeking to embrace diversity Monika Kruesmann 1216 Small and medium-sized enterprises: Their role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals Kai Bethke Manuela Bösendorfer 137Section II Women's health needs and health care in India 1537 The health situation of women in India: Policies and programmes Suneeta Mittal Arvind Mathur 1558 India's medical system Nirmal Kumar Ganguly Malabika Roy 1859 Health PPPs in India: Stepping stones for improving women's reproductive health care? Rama V. Baru Madhurima Nundy 21710 Pro-poor capacity-building in India's women's health sector Arabinda Ghosh 247Part B A Case Study in India 27311 Introduction to the case study: The Women's Health Initiative-A trilateral partnership within the framework of the UN Global Compact Martina Timmermann 27512 Karl Storz's WHI goals and expectations Sybill Storz 29313 The German PPP Programme: A viable way to improve women's health in India? Nicolaus von der Goltz 30114 GTZ's goals and expectations for the WHI public private partnership from a development cooperation point of view Diana Kraft Jörg Hartmann 31715 The WHI: Management perspectives from the private and the public partners in the field Peter Laser Ann Chopra 32716 The WHI: Perspectives from private and public medical doctors in the Endoscopy Training Centres A. Kurian Joseph Alka Kriplani 33717 The economic logic of the Women's Health Initiative as a business model for poverty alleviation Christina Gradl 35518 A PPP for women's health and human rights in India: Striving for best practice within the framework of the UN Global Compact Martina Timmermann Monika Kruesmann 385Part C Conclusion 41919 PPPs for women's health and human rights beyond India: Probing new standards and methodologies Martina Timmermann Monika Kruesmann 421Appendices 435A UNU Workshop I Programme and Praticipants 437B UNU Workshop II Programme and participants 443C Paul Hunt's 2008 Preliminary Mission Report on India 449
