HAI in Post-conflict Timor-Leste: Support and Solidarity WRIHC – April 5, 2014 Mary Anne Mercer.
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Transcript of HAI in Post-conflict Timor-Leste: Support and Solidarity WRIHC – April 5, 2014 Mary Anne Mercer.
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HAI in Post-conflict Timor-Leste: Support and
Solidarity
WRIHC – April 5, 2014
Mary Anne Mercer
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Former Portuguese colony Illegal and brutal occupation
1975-1999 by Indonesia Fully independent in 2002 The East Timor Action
Network (ETAN) strong supporter of independence
Background: Timor-Leste
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Timorese suffered untold abuses of human rights at the hands of the Indonesian military during 24 years
of illegal occupation
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Before leaving, the military and their militias carried out a campaign of violence that left ~75% of the country’s
infrastructure destroyed and 1/3 of the population displaced.
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Challenges for post-conflict East Timor: 1999-2002
• Approximately 20 Timorese physicians• A pool of sub-optimally trained midwives, little
management/leadership experience • Small MOH staff (IMF restrictions on total health
staff numbers)• Multiple uncoordinated international agencies in
operation
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Health services
• International NGOs were the main resource for health services delivery
• Responded quickly to the emergency situation
• Effective in rapid fund-raising – and in spending donor funds
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Health services
• International NGOs were the main resource for health services delivery
• Responded quickly to the emergency situation
• Effective in rapid fund-raising – and in spending donor funds
• BUT:• Costly! $6.2M/year,
heavy use of expat staff• Focused on provision of
services, not capacity building
• Resistant to efforts to standardize district services
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2001-2: Preparation for independence
• Careful phase-out of NGO ‘ownership’ of districts
• Resistance by many agencies to the change
• 2002: an independent Timor-Leste Ministry of Health, led by Dr. Rui de Araujo
• HAI began efforts to support the new MOH
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- Strengthen quality and improve access to MOH services- Promote improved health practices and care-seeking in communities, linking them with MOH
HAI strategies:
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HAI’s role in the new Timor-Leste
• 1999-2004: Small projects, qualitative data gathering in rural areas
• 2004-present: Grants to support MOH priority areas (maternal and newborn health, family planning)
• 2010-present: Developing mHealth activities with MOH midwives
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Thank you!