Commitments

• Test ways to link support to achieving results at country level. 
  
• Invest in learning to ensure linkages between our support and results. 
  
• Strengthen communication and coordination with key stakeholders. 
  
• Monitor all grants for consistency with implementing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. 
  
• Use common progress and results frameworks. 
  

Specific Actions

• Improvement the quality of harmonised technical cooperation to strengthen the national capacity for better health outcomes. 
  
• In 2009, pilot a new approach to funding and monitoring in a number of IHP+ countries, starting with Ethiopia and Mozambique.
• Continue efforts to develop new lifesaving technologies. 
• Document and communicate successful case studies. 
  
• Locate senior staff skilled in health systems strengthening implementation in Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique and Nepal (in 2009) and other IHP+ countries through 2011. 
  
• Determine detailed plans for funding stronger health information systems. 
  
• Implement and report on a single results based framework for the HSDP. 
  
• Improve our information management system for financial and technical reporting. 
• Strengthen monitoring and evaluation and reporting using Performance Appraisal Frameworks for health and HIV/AIDS; establish strong linkages between health and HIV/AIDS PAFs and use these as  the monitoring tools for reviewing performance.