Critical barriers to sustainable capacity strengthening in global health: A systems perspective on development assistance

These qualitative datasets are associated with work done under the Inter-agency Working Group for Capacity Strengthening initiative. The data was captured via Miro - a digital whiteboarding tool - using an innovative co-creation process called Systems Acupuncture and details the nine systemic barriers impeding a better, more sustainable country-driven model for capacity strengthening. The data was captured over a series of stakeholder workshops and discussion sessions, and synthesized into nine "system syndrome" maps. The maps illustrate the multi-dimensional causal relationships between individual system drivers and display feedback loops (i.e., sets of drivers that reinforce each other) within and between the system syndrome maps. The two pending manuscripts, both submitted to Gates Open Research, this data is associated with are:

1. Critical barriers to sustainable capacity strengthening in global health: A systems perspective on development assistance
2. Exploring system drivers of gender inequity in development assistance for health and opportunities for action