| Action | Continue to work with partners to refine and implement a common Health Systems Funding Platform. |
| Description | The Health systems Funding Platform aims to support country progress towards national health goals and the MDGs. It has the potential to reduce duplication of funding, focus on results, and increase harmonization of procedures between the three donor partners as well as align processes much more with country systems and potentially reduce fiduciary risks. The platform provides partners with a channel to finance the health systems elements of a country's national health strategy in a long-term, predictable, and results-focused manner. |
| Year | 2009 |
| Deadline | 2010 |
| Source | World Bank Platform Website - http://go.worldbank.org/0D4C6GPQU0 |
| Criteria for Assessing Performance | |
| Not Achieved | • Ongoing work stalled or terminated with Global Fund and GAVI on jointly programming HSS support. |
| Working Towards | • Work progressing well with Global Fund and GAVI on jointly programming HSS support. |
| Achieved | • Agreement reached with Global Fund and GAVI on jointly programming HSS support. |
| Objectively verifiable indicator (OVI) | Agreement reached with Global Fund and GAVI on jointly programming HSS support. |
| Means of verification | IHP+ Website - http://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net |
| Final Rating | Working Towards: • The World Bank has briefed the Board on how to most effectively engagein the platform, namely through the on-going reform of Investment Lending. • All agencies are implementing a joint workplan to design and launch the platform. • At least four country visits are planned for the first half of 2010 in order to facilitate country consultations. |
| Contextual Information | |
| Where the action will be taken | Global and Country Levels - Countries TBD |
| Results under which we are tracking this action | Strengthening and Using Country Systems; Transparent and Responsible Health Financing; Strengthening Health Systems |
| Explanations | |
| Background | At the request of the High-level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems, the GAVI Alliance, the Global Fund, the World Bank, and the WHO have been working, with input from country partners and key stakeholders to develop the health systems funding platform since May 2009. This is an opportunity to change working practices by refocusing the transaction costs incurred by country Governments to development partners, and to ensure that programming and funding is aligned with national health planning and budget priorities and cycles by helping to coordinate, mobilize, and streamline the flow of existing and new international resources to support health systems components of national health plans. |
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| Interpretation Notes |
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