Innovative Humanitarian Health Financing for Refugees

Spiegel, Paul; Chanis, Rebecca; Scognamiglio, Thea; Trujillo, Antonio J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33812-1_3

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“…But key transit and destination countries should not do this alone; they should be supported by multilateral partners—as well as high-income countries that currently do not admit adequate numbers of refugees—in order to establish coordinated global governance that is responsive to refugee health and humanitarian needs more generally. The bottom line is that the financing of health services for refugees should come at both the national and supranational levels; there are a number of innovative funding mechanisms that need to be considered ( 237 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Refugee Mental Health, Global Health Policy, and the Syrian Crisis

Cratsley

Brooks

Mackey

2021

Front. Public Health

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The most recent global refugee figures are staggering, with over 82.4 million people forcibly displaced and 26.4 million registered refugees. The ongoing conflict in Syria is a major contributor. After a decade of violence and destabilization, over 13.4 million Syrians have been displaced, including 6.7 million internally displaced persons and 6.7 million refugees registered in other countries. Beyond the immediate political and economic challenges, an essential component of any response to this humanitarian crisis must be health-related, including policies and interventions specific to mental health. This policy and practice review addresses refugee mental health in the context of the Syrian crisis, providing an update and overview of the current situation while exploring new initiatives in mental health research and global health policy that can help strengthen and expand services. Relevant global health policy frameworks are first briefly introduced, followed by a short summary of recent research on refugee mental health. We then provide an update on the current status of research, service provision, and health policy in the leading destinations for Syrians who have been forcibly displaced. This starts within Syria and then turns to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Germany. Finally, several general recommendations are discussed, including the pressing need for more data at each phase of migration, the expansion of integrated mental health services, and the explicit inclusion and prioritization of refugee mental health in national and global health policy.

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confidence: 99%

Refugee Mental Health, Global Health Policy, and the Syrian Crisis

Cratsley

Brooks

Mackey

2021

Front. Public Health

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“…This category of innovations mostly focuses on targeting previously non-accessible or marginalised communities; • Paradigm innovation relates to a change in the underlying mental models that govern our approach. The relatively large amount (38) of innovations pertaining to this category relates to the focus on driving localisation through humanitarian innovation (Tatham et al 2017), the introduction of innovative financing mechanisms (Spiegel et al 2020), or the role of cash-based programming in replacing traditional forms of aid delivery (Heaslip et al 2018); • Business model innovation relates to the situation in which a reframing of the current product/service, process, and market context results in seeing new challenges and opportunities and letting go of others.…”

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Innovation in humanitarian assistance—a systematic literature review

Bruder,

Baar

2024

Int J Humanitarian Action

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The promise of innovation in humanitarian contexts has generated an expanding literature, from academics as well as practitioners. However, the field has become characterised by conceptual ambiguity and insular approaches, inhibiting the integration of findings and best practices. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the key concepts, definitions, and themes in humanitarian innovation (HI) research by applying a systematic literature review and content analysis. Based on data from 301 publications, we analyse scholarly and practitioner articles addressing the topic of humanitarian innovation. Our analysis suggests that efforts to reform the humanitarian system by leveraging innovation have been primarily ad hoc, fragmented, and serving miscellaneous separate objectives. This results in the implementation of incremental improvements, rather than transformative change throughout the sector. To bridge the gap between the various conceptualisations of HI, we propose a conceptual framework that provides a system perspective on HI, which includes the institutions, actors, contextual factors, and outputs of the system. The implications of our finding for further research and policy are discussed as well.Points for practitioners• Ensure active participation and inclusion of affected populations in innovation agendas and processes.• Strengthen collaborative efforts among actors (donors, practitioners, private sector, intermediaries, NGOs) in humanitarian sector to increase coordination, knowledge exchange, and bundling of resources for innovation.• Facilitate evidence-based approaches and data-driven decision-making, for the operationalisation of appropriate innovations.• Increase the quality and quantity of funding going to innovation actors, and steer funding towards innovations explicitly catering to the needs of affected populations. Graphical Abstract

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“…In addition to people moving to improve livelihood opportunities, there are strong intersecting health-migration concerns with respect to acute and protracted displacement, mixed flows of asylum seekers and irregular migrants from conflict-affected and fragile states. All of these call for more sustainable, long-term, system-strengthening solutions (Spiegel et al, 2017) in the provision of health care to all who move, importantly including those on-the-move within states (Box 1).…”

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Universal Health Coverage: Ensuring migrants and migration are included

Mosca

Vearey

Orcutt

et al. 2020

Global Social Policy

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Health for All? The 2019 United Nations (UN) Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is an historical global health and development milestone. Migration and migrants are central to social stability, societal function and health security, yet they have been systematically excluded from global health debates, including in relation to UHC (Wickramage et al., 2018). Despite the rhetoric of 'universalism' and commitments to 'leave no-one behind', UHC is, in most cases, linked to citizenship and, in the case of internal migrants, to 'stationary dwelling'. International and internal migrants, including those forcibly displaced (70.8 million in 2018), are estimated to exceed 1 billion people worldwide with 277 million crossing international borders; many remain marginal to UHC endeavours. Why?

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Innovative Humanitarian Health Financing for Refugees

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Refugee Mental Health, Global Health Policy, and the Syrian Crisis

Refugee Mental Health, Global Health Policy, and the Syrian Crisis

Innovation in humanitarian assistance—a systematic literature review

Universal Health Coverage: Ensuring migrants and migration are included

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