Haydom Lutheran Hospital: a sustainable health-providing organization or a "white elephant"? : as an Xtrata CSR objective, what best practices does H…

2011

Master thesis in development management- University of Agder 2011 This paper provides an analysis of the sustainability of Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH) in Tanzania. Moreover, it discusses the local community’s dependency on the hospital. A smaller second part of the paper looks at Xstrata’s decision to use HLH as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) objective. The thesis further explores what services can be seen as best practices from HLH and therefore transferable to Xstrata’s possible mining site in Kabanga, Tanzania. HLH has since its inauguration by Norwegian missionaries in 1955 been highly funded by public and private financial, human and technological resources from abroad, esp…