AfHEA Assembly Repor.. - African Health Economics and Policy
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Executive Director' Report to the 2nd
AfHEA General Assembly
Dr Chris Atim
Executive Director, AfHEA
Saly, Senegal
March 2011
Outline
2011 Conference structures
2nd Conference Management framework
AfHEA
Board
Executive
Director
Scientific
Committee
Executive
Committee
AfHEA Conference
Planning Committee
Local Planning
Committee
Conference Management – Oversight
Board of Trustees
Responsibility:
Overall oversight
Membership:
Dr Eva das Dores Pascoal, WHO Country Health Economist, Mozambique - Chairperson
Prof Diane McIntyre, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Miloud Kaddar, Health economist, WHO-IVB, Geneva
Prof Kodjo Evlo, Head of Department of Economics, University of Lome, Togo
Dr Germano Mwabu, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya (now at Havard)
Dr Joses Kirigia, WHO Health Financing Advisor, Brazzaville, Congo
Mr Allie Kibwika-Muyinda, ECSA Health Community
Dr Lamine Farba Sall, WHO HEC, Coordinator of Senegal HE network
Mr Ezoua Kodjo Niamke, President of Ivorian Health Economists Network
Dr Charlotte Zikusooka, Health economist, Uganda
Chris Atim, Executive Director
Conference Management - scientific
Scientific Committee:
Responsibility :
Reviewed and accepted abstracts, recommended poster presentations, ensured
quality presentations.
Membership:
Prof Di McIntyre, University of Cape Town, Chairperson
Prof Lucy Gilson, University of Cape Town
Dr Francois Diop, Senior Health Economist, Abt Associates, Senegal
Dr Catherine Goodman, of the London School of Hygiene & Trop. Medicine and the Kenya Medical Research
Institute
Dr Miloud Kaddar, Senior Health Economist, WHO-Geneva
Dr Charlotte M. Zikusooka, Health economist, Uganda
Dr Charles Hongoro, Senior Health Economist, Aurum Institute of Health Research, South Africa
Dr Eva Pascoal, WHO-Mozambique
Dr Moustapha Thiam, Professor at CESAG Health Economics Institute, Senegal
Dr Miloud Kaddar, WHO-IVB, Geneva
Dr Hyacinth Ichoku, Health economist and lecturer, Nigeria
Dr Moses Aikins, School of Public Health, Ghana
Dr Eyob Zere, WHO, Malawi
Other conference committees 1
AfHEA Conference Planning Committee (CPC)
Responsible for overseeing the day to day preparations,
including coordination, logistics and financial
administration.
Membership:
Chris Atim, Senegal
Ms Marina Yo, Cote d’Ivoire
Mr Pascal Ndiaye, Senegal
Mr Divine Ikenwilo, Scotland
Mr Arthur Rutaro, Uganda
Dr Alice Soumare, Burkina Faso
Chinwe Ogbonna, Nigeria
Djesika Amendah, Kenya
Morris De Kouame, Senegal
Other conference committees -2
Local Planning Committee, (LPC) Senegal
Responsibility:
Day to day operations toward the hosting of the conference
particularly ensuring local preparation and liaisons
Membership
Ndeye Maguette Gueye Ndiaye
Farba Lamine Sall
Daouda Mbengue
Conference Partners
Direct funding
Rockefeller Foundation
World Bank
IDRC
HEPNET
UNAIDS
UNFPA
P4H
WHO
Conference co-hosts:
The Ministry of Health and Prevention, Senegal
CESAG Health Institute
Progress Report – key highlights
Key achievements – management
issues
Operationalization of organs – Board of Trustees,
Executive Committee and Sub-regional advisers.
AfHEA became registered in Africa, giving it legal footing
and license to operate, in addition to previous UK license
Office accommodation secured in Ghana Health Service
with engagement of short-term consultant administrators
AfHEA web site active esp for conference management
[www.afhea.org] .
Key achievements – Technical
support services
Operational guidelines for Technical Working Groups
AfHEA online forum for information sharing, discussions,
dissemination of technical resource materials, job and
research announcements, etc
Informed AU Ministers of Health meeting, AU Summit,
conferences on MNCH, health sector governance and
leadership, WAHO, African Parliamentarians network, etc
Served as Technical partners to workshops - WB African
Flagship course on health financing and HHA partners
“Financial access for the poor”
Key achievements – Strategic
operations
Expanded AfHEA’s partnership base
Conducted landscape assessment by Accenture
Development Partners
Revised Strategic Plan informed by assessments – 3
main programme areas
Workplan and Communication packages as codeliverables
Explored new frontiers and represented the interest of
African Health Economists – IHEA, WAHEN, HEPNet,
GHSR Symposium, etc
Key challenges
Multi-year funding still under discussion with
partners
Technical Working Groups not operationalised
Administrative challenges in maintaining a fully
functional office in Accra, Ghana
Issue of value for money too
Challenge of irregular payment of membership
dues
Perspectives for next few years ahead
Focus: Fully operationalize business plan
Concentrate on providing support to regional, sub-regional and country levels;
Convene series of Policy related workshops and dialogues for top policy makers in
Africa;
Major overhaul of our web site – discussion with iHEA
Provide technical support to regional, sub-regional policy level bodies, - AU,
WAHO , ECSA, etc
Sustain and expand AfHEA’s partnership base in support of the association’s
objectives; and
Conclude the development of AfHEA’s consultancy data base.
Improve AfHEA’s mechanism for the payment of annual and membership dues,
guided by the thoughts and suggestions emerging from the forum
Discussion with iHEA on facility for online payments
Work on refining our business model with an eye to sustainability
Recommendations
Revise business plan period to run from 2011 -
2014
Extend our use of new technology for decision
making and other activities
Conclusion
Thank the Board and Executive Committee members
Thank AfHEA’s membership
Our Medium term goal is to become the ‘Go to place’
for Health Economics, Health financing and Health
Policy issues in Africa;
With our collective effort, we definitely can!
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