Characteristics of China-Africa health collaboration:The case of Democratic Republic of Congo
10.3969/j.issn.1674-2982.2014.03.012
- VernacularTitle:中非卫生合作的特点：基于刚果民主共和国的案例研究
- Author:
Xiaoxiao JIANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
China-Africa;
Health collaboration;
Complex system
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
2014;(3):64-68
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
China’s relationship with Africa has gained worldwide attention, with substantial scale and wide range of investment and development assistance over the past decades. We argue in this paper that China-Africa health collaboration has four main characteristics:China has a vague definition of the Development Fund for Health;there is no single development agency within Chinese government; the Chinese government is very responsive to re-quests from local government and most of the health programs are co-developed by the two governments;and China's private investment in Africa merges into the field of public development and plays an important role. Thus, China-Af-rica health collaboration has two major problems:resource mismatch and restricted impact. The case of Congo shows that in order to increase the effectiveness of China-Africa health collaboration and to make better use of the advantages of a complex system, decision-makers need to consider the bottom-up innovation and integration with local systems when making policies. They also need to avoid a scattered structure and inefficiency brought about by a complex sys-tem in order to ensure balanced consensus-building mechanisms among all stakeholders in China-Africa health collab-oration.
