Transcript JANS: introduction, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions

JANS: introduction, Lessons
Learned, and Future Directions
from consultation in Hammamet
Abebe Alebachew
12th December 2012
Nairobi, Kenya
1. Improve quality
of the health
strategy
2. Encourage
partners to
fund national
strategy
Better
funding of
effective
strategy
Goal:
Better health
results
3. Reduce
transaction
costs
Country-demand
driven and
country led
Build on existing
in-country
processes
Strong
independent
element in
assessment team
Inclusive: civil
society and other
stakeholders
Progress in Meeting JANS
Objectives
Improve
strategy
Convince
funders
Reduce
transaction
costs
• Used to revise strategy (in all countries)
• Stakeholders feel involved
• Strengthened ownership of the strategy by all incountry stakeholders
• Used in funding submissions, e.g. in DFID documents;
in GAVI proposals
• Limited evidence (yet) of direct impact on domestic
or international funding levels
• JANS has transaction costs
• But may reduce other assessments
• May encourage alignment (shared reporting etc)
• No evidence yet that it has reduced transaction
costs
How can JANS better meet needs of stakeholders?
 Hammamet Agreement
about JANS
Processes:
There should be adherence to JANS
principles; reduction in separate
agency assessments;
 Ensuring links with sub-national /
other sector plans
Sector and Sub-sector JANS
The overall agreement was to work towards
'One JANS’ by:
◦ Accommodating sub- sector/programme
reviews in sector JANS. Team composition.
◦ Synchronizing different planning processes
of sector and sub-sector strategies.
◦ Work with interested countries to do
sector JANS that better accommodate
programmes
Ensuring sustainable support for JANS
processes
 Short
term support:
◦ Tap in-country expertise; Foster Southsouth support.
◦ Continued global level support in the short
term; IHP+ Core Team as a help desk,
◦ More efforts to orient staff on JANS
within Agencies
 Long term: A gradual
institutionalisation of JANS within a
country's own planning processes and
financial provision in their own budgets and
within agencies
General Recommendations
Continue working on stakeholders' needs;Try
to modify requirements, including gradually
replacing individual agency appraisals: .
 Inclusion of a wider group of stakeholders such
as private sector and parliamentarians,
 Developing countries to consider integrating
JANS into their planning processes and make
provision in their budgets.
 DPs take institutional decisions to embed JANS
within guidelines and decision making processes

Thank You Very much