Health MDGs

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Health MDGs
Effective health systems with engaged societies
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• Action for Global Health
• NGO partnership working in 5 EU Member States and
  Brussels.
• Consists of 15 non governmental organizations
  working in the field of health and development.
• Action for Global Health was created in 2006 out
  of a common concern that Europe is not yet doing
  enough to support developing countries to achieve
  the health MDGs by 2015.
• Health is at the heart of the MDGs

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• 1. Resources for health
• The health MDGs will never be achieved if action
  to improve aid effectiveness is not complemented
  by a substantial increase in financial resources
  for health by the EU Member States and the EC.

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• 2. Policy dialogue civil society participation
• SWAps perceived not as a multi-stakeholder
  process, but as a specific public expenditure
  programme funded by (a select group of) donors
  and they are the ones that talk.
• The current aid situation still emphasises
  accountability from government to donors, rather
  than to domestic stakeholders.
• Systematic involvement of civil society in
  country level policy dialogue is needed.

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• 3. General and Sectoral Budget Support
• General budget support needs clear performance
  frameworks to measure progress and track
  spending.
• A range of financing mechanisms will be needed to
  ensure
• strong health systems
• adequate scale and speed for priority
  interventions
• most vulnerable / marginalised are reached
• ... but they all need to be part of the policy
  dialogue and the grants need to be accounted for
  in the national budget

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• 4. Predictability and recurrent costs
• Lack of trained personnel continues to make
  health aid ineffective and extends beyond
  frontline medical staff to the technical,
  support, administrative and managerial staff.
• Recognize the important role that community
  health workers and family members play.
• More and more predictable funding needed

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