HERD International blog post on the role, responsibility and functioning of the Health Facility Operation and Management Committees in Kapilvastu District, Nepal

Details and registration for the webinar ‘Strengthening climate-resilient health systems: opportunities and challenges at policy and facility level’

Halimatu Kamara of Institute for Development team in Sierra Leone reflects on a visit to the team’s learning site in Moyamba District where she saw community ownership and collaboratively address community health issues.

Details of a webinar on ‘The interplay of gender and other vulnerabilities: A participatory action research with informal Syrian close-to-community health care providers in Lebanon’ hosted by American University of Beirut

Rouham Yamout discusses refugee health in Lebanon, critiquing its provision from the arrival of Syrian refugees in 2011 to today’s informal parallel sector

Dr Karin Diaconu of Queen Margaret University reflects on the study of health system resilience and questions its purpose when the health system itself and the population it serves are under existential threat.

The plight of Syrian refugees in Lebanon who require healthcare is explored in this edit of a 2016 article

Blog post on the contrasting formal and informal clinics available in Beqaa, Lebanon and how they serve the local communities

Interview with a member of the Working Women group in Beqaa, Lebanon, talking about her life, her hopes for the future, and plans to spread Working Women to other towns and villages in the area

Life is difficult for female Syrian close-to-community healthcare workers in Majdal Anjar, Lebanon, so to help alleviate their double burden they have set up Working Women.