Acting on the Call 2018: A Focus on the Journey to Self-Reliance
As a development agency, USAID aims to build capacity and reduce disease burden while strengthening health systems to enable countries to plan, fund, and manage their own continued progress. The 2018 Acting on the Call report focuses on 25 countries’ journeys to self-reliance for preventing child and maternal deaths. Self-reliance is a country’s ability to finance and implement solutions to its own development challenges. Understanding where countries lie on this effort – known as the journey to self reliance – helps USAID to best partner with countries and support their efforts.
By helping countries meet the needs of their women and children, USAID’s support is yielding immediate returns now – in the form of improved health services and health outcomes – and lasting returns in the future, when foreign assistance is no longer needed.
