TRANSFERRING APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY TO THE DEVELOPING WORLD: USING PARTNERS IN HEALTH’S

ZANMI LASANTE AS AN EXAMPLE

Christine FilarskiPublic Management

Faculty Mentor: Cheryl K. Hughes

“The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.” – Paul Farmer

UNDERSTANDING THE REGION

• History • Political Situation • Human Rights

Issues• Laws and

Regulations

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CANGE, HAITI

• Haiti's largest river, the Artibonite, is dammed by the Péligre dam project

• Area floods and farmers lose their land as they are forced to move further up the mountain into infertile land

ZANMI LASANTE: THE CREATION OF A PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM

• Establish a baseline • Create a first line of defense• Create a second line of defense

PIH/ZL IS A TRUE PARTNERSHIP!!!

Partnership and Accompaniment

Transfer of Appropriate Technology

Prevention Projects

COMMUNITY-BASED MODEL

EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS

Interpersonal Partnership• Community health workers

Partnership with Communities• Focus social and economic rights

Partnership with government

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS

TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY

• Import capital goods and technological inputs• Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) • Direct trade in knowledge via technology licensing• Refraining from patenting the work

BUILDING THE COMMUNITY UP AROUND YOU

“Giving drugs without food is like washing your hands and drying them in the dirt.” - Haitian proverb

Water Food

Education Housing

QUESTIONS