Each sector requires a five-year recovery strategy with a clear budget and clear lines of partnership and responsibility linking the Haitian government, non-governmental organisations, and institutional donors, especially governments and international agencies.
These people are not seeking more independence but rather a partnership where responsibility for treatment (medicines) is shared.
Dr. Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund, characterized the meeting as not only a replenishment of financial resources but also a replenishment of hope, saying, "The 21st Century ideals that led to the founding of the Global Fund are now stronger than ever: partnership, shared responsibility and mutual accountability".
The systemic approach encourages broad partnerships where responsibilities are shared in line with comparative advantages.
While Primary Health Care Volunteers continue to promote active community participation, partnership, and responsibility, their role has expanded to support general health preventive activities.
This requires sustained and targeted campaigns to address issues including domestic violence, the negative effects of multiple concurrent sexual partnerships, shared responsibility for contraception and shared responsibility for children.
SCP (Société Civile Professionelle) = professional limited liability partnership (sharing of responsibilities, fees and costs).
However, in order to develop and sustain such a partnership, roles and responsibilities of participating agencies and individuals must be defined.
Collaboration, voluntary, partnership and social responsibility are good words.
At the embassy here, words like "assistance" and "aid" were jettisoned for "partnership" and "co-responsibility".
