Transcript Mr. Simon Wright

External financing for Health
MDGs: overview from
European civil society
Simon Wright
www.actionforglobalhealth.eu
Action for Global Health
• Growing network of international NGO offices
in Brussels, France, Germany, Italy, Spain
and UK
• Very diverse organisations but working
together for common goals: funding,
prioritising of health systems, equitable
access
• Focus on quantity and quality of EU ODA for
health.
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Quantity of ODA
• Need to champion increases in
health ODA at the same time as
improving its effectiveness
• Targets assumed aid was real
and untied
• Innovative financing sources
must be additional.
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Economic crisis and ODA
• Recession cannot be an excuse
• Nor can it mean business-as-usual
• Is the reason for urgent action to finally
meet ODA targets.
• Some donors were already retreating
from their commitments before the
crisis.
• Still need to ensure “real aid”.
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EU Guidelines for aid effectiveness
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Area 1: Division of labour
Area 2: Use of country systems
Area 3: Predictability of aid
Area 4: Mutual accountability for results
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AMR recommendations
• The economic crisis must be the reason to act
urgently on meeting ODA commitments for health.
• Donor governments must go faster on improving
quality of ODA.
• Innovative methods of financing health systems must
be additional to ODA commitments
• Country ownership must involve citizens to reduce
inequalities, ensure universal access and prioritise
health
• Increased use of sectoral budget support should be
considered
• EU MDG contracts should ensure aid orphans are
supported
• The IHP+ must also be a vehicle for increasing health
ODA to fund national plans.
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