World Health Organization and the search for accountability: a critical analysis of the new framework of engagement with non-state actors

Rached, Danielle Hanna; Ventura, Deisy de Freitas Lima

doi:10.1590/0102-311x00100716

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“…[ 41 50 51 52 ] Rached emphasizes transparency, accountability, and mutual respect as important factors in explaining the principles governing the collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) and nongovernmental players. [ 59 ]…”

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Collaboration between the government and nongovernmental organizations in providing health-care services

Rajabi

Ebrahimi

Aryankhesal

2021

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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BACKGROUND: Given the expanding range of health influencing factors, increasing expectations from the health systems, and general challenges such as insufficient resources, the health services needed by people cannot be provided completely by the governments alone. Therefore, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)-government collaboration is considered a common approach in health-care provision for different communities. Since the NGO-government collaboration is complicated and usually influenced by many challenges and issues, the present study was conducted to identify collaboration challenges between the government and NGOs in providing health-care services. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using a systematic review method and searching in ISI Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and Embase databases, using related keyword/terms, between March 2020 and June 2020, studies on NGO-government collaboration in the health area were collected without time limitation. After completing the article selection process, those articles that consistent with the research purpose were chosen for the final analysis. RESULTS: From 4236 initially collected studies, 16 studies were chosen for the final analysis. Based on the content analysis of the selected articles, 70 challenges were identified in the NGO-government collaboration to provide health-care services. These challenges were divided into five main themes: structural issues, process issues, issues related to roles and responsibilities, trust and communications issues, and control and power relation issues and 11 subthemes. CONCLUSION: The present study provides significant challenges by NGO-government collaboration in providing health-care services. Awareness of these challenges plays an important role in promoting such collaborations and enables these organizations to highly exploit the strengths of each other, resulting in a collaboration with win–win situation.

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Collaboration between the government and nongovernmental organizations in providing health-care services

Rajabi

Ebrahimi

Aryankhesal

2021

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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“…Por isso, qualquer participação de atores privados continua sendo indireta, não oficial e, em grande parte, ad hoc. 17 Para lidar com as "formas jurídicas", a literatura mostra que alguns atores de grande poder político, econômico, técnico e científico, tais como as grandes corporações farmacêuticas, tornaram-se influentes nas instituições globais por meio do recrutamento dos Estados para a defesa de seus interesses. 18 Para Souza e Saldanha, 19 isso gera um sentimento de impotência em meio a um pluralismo normativo considerado por vezes incompreensível ou opressivo e que permeia os direitos internos, obstruindo o compromisso dos Estados de respeitar os direitos humanos protegidos pelo mesmo direito internacional que lhes coage política e economicamente a violá-los.…”

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A governança global da saúde entre hard e soft law: os desafios da responsabilidade social das empresas farmacêuticas

Pozzatti¹,

Souza²

2023

AMDI

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O debate sobre a relação entre empresas e direitos humanos tem crescido gradualmente em sede institucional e doutrinária, bem como o reconhecimento de que faltam mecanismos para promover a responsabilidade social desses atores privados. Neste contexto, este trabalho investiga os limites e as possibilidades da responsabilidade social das empresas (RSE) farmacêuticas transnacionais pelo desigual acesso a medicamentos essenciais no Sul global, realidade agravada em contextos pandêmicos como o de HIV/AIDS e COVID-19. Para tanto, ele discute os atores, fatores e processos da governança sanitária global e debate algumas estratégias de RSE a luz daqueles elementos. Metodologicamente o trabalho faz uma revisão da literatura especializada, análise documental e de dados primários, e conduz uma abordagem normativa do tema.

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“…In 2016, pressured by conflicts of interest pointed out in the relationships maintained with its major funders, WHO adopted the Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (Fensa), aimed at protecting the organization from undue influence in the formulation of its policies and standards, as well as ensuring its reputation and credibility (Rached;Ventura, 2017). Fensa classifies non-state actors into four categories: NGOs, private sector entities, philanthropic foundations, and academic institutions.…”

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The ideological capture of WHO’s social participation mechanisms in the negotiation of the international pandemic agreement

Ramos,

Viegas,

Ventura

2023

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This article addresses social participation in the negotiations of the international agreement on pandemics, conducted within the World Health Organization (WHO) by an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB). It presents the results of research conducted with a literature review, document research that covered over 100 documents of the INB, and empirical research that carried out a qualitative analysis of the contents of 383 videos sent by the general public during the second phase of public hearings of the INB. The research confirms the hypothesis that there has been an ideological capture of the public hearings, understood as the concerted action of individuals and organizations that, by taking advantage of participation modalities open to the general public, with a massive action in favor of unscientific or unverifiable arguments, have sought to distort the purpose of social participation, turning the public consultation on what should be included in the agreement on pandemics into a space for the dissemination of their political agenda. It also presents evidence of concerted action by far-right groups against the agreement. The conclusions point to the need for changes in this participation mechanism, in favor of a regulation of global health that considers the opinion and interests of its main recipients.

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World Health Organization and the search for accountability: a critical analysis of the new framework of engagement with non-state actors

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Collaboration between the government and nongovernmental organizations in providing health-care services

Collaboration between the government and nongovernmental organizations in providing health-care services

A governança global da saúde entre hard e soft law: os desafios da responsabilidade social das empresas farmacêuticas

The ideological capture of WHO’s social participation mechanisms in the negotiation of the international pandemic agreement

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