 Recognizing the central role of health in overall human development, socio-economic progress and poverty alleviation, the domain of health is one of the important areas of cooperation identified by the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The OIC Member States have paid special attention to the issue of health and development of modern and sustainable health systems by allocating more resources to the health sector in the last decade. Consequently, these Member States have witnessed significant improvement in healthcare coverage. However, even with these positive improvements, the OIC group still tends to lag behind the performance of other country groups on many fronts. This is especially the case in the least developed OIC Member States, which are still lagging behind with fragile health care systems caused by insufficient financial resources, weak infrastructure, inadequate workforce, and slow progress in health sector reforms.
In this connection, SESRIC developed the IbnSina Health Capacity Building Programme (IbnSina-CaB) in 2010 in order to improve the health service delivery and practices in the OIC Member States. Within the framework of IbnSina-CaB, the Centre analyses the needs and capacities of Member States through the responses of the related questionnaires and based on this analysis, organises short-term training courses, training workshops and study visits.
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