Category: 2025
Mapping resilience in emergency response and recovery in Tigray, Ethiopia: Lessons learned and key policy messages
Brief exploring how Tigray’s health system has responded during conflict – emergency response and recovery
The role of non-state actors in health systems resilience: using and developing their capacities
ReBUILD brief drawing lessons on how to enhance the roles an d resilience of domestic non-state actors in fragile and shock-prone settings
Research on health systems resilience in Myanmar – a poster
A poster outlining six of the studies conducted by the ReBUILD team in Myanmar at Burnet Institute.
Health systems strengthening and resilience-building in fragile and conflict-affected settings: experiences and operational perspectives of international NGOs
This brief outlines a study which explored the “how to do” questions for health systems strengthening programming in fragile and conflict-affected settings, at the intersection between humanitarian and recovery phases.
Health systems strengthening in fragile states: picturing the views of international NGOs
A photo elicitation exercise which captured the views of iNGO practitioners working at the intersection between humanitarian and recovery phases
Situation analysis: Health care services in selected communities in earthquake-affected areas of Mandalay and Sagaing, Myanmar
Brief on the 2025 earthquakes from Burnet Institute Myanmar describes how public health emergency responses may be tailored to address urgent community health needs
Strengthening health workforce resilience across fragile and shock-prone settings
ReBUILD brief sets out context-specific actions for policy and practice on managing and supporting the health workforce, especially during emergencies and in preparation for future shocks
Voices from the frontlines: Community health workers in conflict-affected communities – webinar recording
Recording of the ReBUILD and Community Partners International webinar, Voices from the frontlines: Community health workers in conflict-affected communities
Strengthening community health systems: A collaborative approach to addressing Kush use in Kailahun district, Sierra Leone – a presentation
A presentation outlining the objectives of the study, the risk factors driving the use of Kush, how widespread useage is, potential intervention areas, policy implications and future potential research priorities.
Representing ReBUILD’s work through collage
Examples of the ReBUILD team’s use of collage to convey the emotions associated with our research
Strengthening health workforce emergency preparedness for future shocks: Lessons from the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye
Policy brief from Wesam Mansour exploring the lessons learned from the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye on strengthening health workforce emergency preparedness for future shocks
Webinar recording: Politics and Health: Navigating the Political Economy of Health Financing Reforms
Two presentations on ReBUILD’s political economy in health financing work, featuring Sophie Witter and Sushil Baral
Co-developing principles and practices for health systems strengthening in fragile settings, for and with NGOs operating across the humanitarian-development spectrum
Case study examining ReBUILD’s continued work to provide evidence for policy and practice on the topic of health system strengthening in fragile and conflict-affected settings
Bridging multi-tiered health systems, strengthening coordination and promoting a culture of learning in Nepal
Case study examining how the HERD International team is helping municipalities coordinate strategies, promote complementarity and support resource sharing in health care arrangements
Data-driven local governance for health: How participatory research strengthened the Municipal Health Committee in Lebanon
Case study examining how the Majdal Anjar Municipal Health Committee in Lebanon operationalizes ReBUILD-generated tools and learning to monitor and coordinate health activity and promotion
The inclusion of people with disabilities in health system building at community level
Case study examining how people and organizations with disabilities are being integrated into health system research in a peri-urban area of Myanmar
Resilient local governance in action: How participatory research enabled the Municipal Health Committee’s emergency war response in Lebanon
Case study examining how the Majdal Anjar Municipal Health Committee in Lebanon adopted ReBUILD-learned methods to respond to an influx of refugees fleeing war in the south of the country
Trust and inclusion in action: How local groups connect communities and health systems in Sierra Leone
Case study examining how trust, inclusivity, and relationship-building within community and health stakeholder groups have shaped local ability to take action and sustain health initiatives in Sierra Leone
Strengthening community health systems for improved health service utilization at the local level in Nepal
Case study looking at the impact of HERD International’s work to plan and implement activities which strengthen the community health system in Kapilvastu municipality, Nepal
Health justice in fragile and shock-prone settings: from theory to practice towards building resilient health systems
This paper explores how ReBUILD for Resilience has sought to operationalise health justice as a guiding principle and embedded practice in Myanmar, Nepal, Lebanon and Sierra Leone.
Approaching data collection in a liminal health system: Engaging migrants and internally displaced communities along the Thailand–Myanmar border – a poster
A poster on the challenges of and possible responses to collecting data from vulnerable people living and accessing health care on the Thailand-Myanmar border.
Gender transformative programming: Community health workers as agents of social change – webinar recording
A recording of the webinar ‘Gender transformative programming: Community health workers as agents of social change’, held as part of the CHW Symposium 2025
Participatory action research: insights from Nepal
Presentations on the use of participatory action research in Nepal – addressing gender norms and power dynamics of female community health volunteers and strengthening health systems resilience
Transnational lifelines: the role of diaspora capital on health system resilience in fragile and shock-prone settings
Presentation on how diaspora capital —human, social, and financial — contribute to health system resilience capabilities in fragile and shock prone settings.
Strengthening health financing in complex humanitarian contexts: analysis from Northwest Syria and its implications for other disrupted contexts
A presentation given by Sophie Witter – Strengthening health financing in complex humanitarian contexts: analysis from Northwest Syria and its implications for other disrupted contexts
Understanding the political economy of reforming global health initiatives – insights from global and country levels
This paper seeks to understand the political economy of reforming global health initiatives
Health systems and resilience in Nepal podcast
Episode 1 of a podcast series from HERD International on health systems and resilience in Nepal. Featuring Shophika Regmi and Shreeman Sharma.
Diaspora as partners: strengthening resilience of health systems and communities amidst aid volatility
Article on the critical, overlooked, and underutilised value of diaspora and their contributions for health systems in low- and middle-income countries and fragile and shock-prone settings.
Factors associated with a resilient maternal health system: Evidence from Kapilvastu, Nepal – a poster
HERD International poster exploring factors associated with a resilient maternal health system in Kapilvastu, Nepal
Nepal local health system budgeting and planning process: Insights from a Learning Site in Nepal – a poster
HERD International poster from our Learning Site study in Kapilvastu which seeks to understand the process and capacity of the local health system for annual planning
Framework adaptation for assessing the climate resilience of health systems in Nepal – a poster
HERD International poster exploring the process of adapting a global climate resilience capacity assessment framework to Nepal’s health systems
Climate resilience in health systems – Evidence from selected local levels in Nepal – a poster
HERD International poster exploring the policy context and local stakeholders’ understanding of climate change and health in the context of climate resilient health systems.
Six Guiding Principles to Support Equity in Global Health Programmes
A K4DD fact sheet which shares six guiding principles to support equity in global health programmes
Health systems in limited statehood areas: stretching the boundaries of health governance – a video
In this video, Professor Fouad Fouad explores how conflicts have created regions of limited statehood, where governments struggle to provide essential services, leaving millions – especially internally displaced people – without access to healthcare
The effectiveness of the Sierra Leone health sector’s response to COVID-19: a quantitative analysis
Paper explores the effectiveness of leadership, health workforce performance, community engagement, and service delivery in Sierra Leone’s health system during COVID-19
The making of the film ‘Health Workers’
Presentation from Rouham Yamout about the production of Health Workers – a film with and about close-to-community female Syrian health workers in Beqaa Valley in Lebanon.
Political economy analysis of health financing reforms in times of crisis: findings from three case studies in south-east Asia
Paper explores health financing reforms in Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia, using a political economy lens, to understand whether and how crises can be utilised to progress UHC