Research and Markets: OECD Report - Aid Effectiveness in the Health Sector: Progress and Lessons

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/rr3kcd/aid_effectiveness) has announced the addition of OECD Publishing's new report "Aid Effectiveness in the Health Sector: Progress and Lessons" to their offering.

“Aid Effectiveness in the Health Sector: Progress and Lessons”

This report provides insight and expounds lessons from the health sector to the broader challenges of aid effectiveness.

Aid plays an important role in reducing poverty and inequality, stimulating growth, building capacity, promoting human development and accelerating the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Effective aid is critical both to maximise the impact of aid and to achieve long-term, sustainable development.

Aid to the health sector has increased substantially over the last 20 years from USD 5 billion in 1990 to USD 21.8 billion in 2007. Consisting of a growing and diverse range of actors, aid to the health sector faces complex governance and management challenges: for example, donors inadvertedly invest in duplicate and fragmented efforts, while partners are unable to take full responsibility and leadership. By reviewing these challenges against the aid effectiveness principles outlined in the landmark 2005 Paris Declaration and 2008 Accra Agenda for Action, this report provides insight and expounds lessons from the health sector to the broader challenges of aid effectiveness. Health, then, is used as a tracer sector to help assess the risks and benefits of the diverse range of actors, and promote co-ordination and coherence among development programmes.

This work is the result of a collaboration between the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness - an inclusive, international forum with the aim of improving aid delivery - through its Task Team on Health as a Tracer Sector and the World Trade Organization.

Key Topics Covered:

Foreword

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Executive Summary

- Key messages

- Main findings

- Recommendations

- Lessons from the health sector

- References

Introduction

Chapter 1. Strengthening Country Ownership and National Plans

Chapter 2. Using and Strengthening Country Systems in the Health Sector

Chapter 3. Further Harmonising Aid to the Health Sector

Chapter 4. Improving Predictability and Transparency of Aid to the Health Sector

Chapter 5. Strengthening Mutual and Domestic Accountability for more Sustainable Development Results

Chapter 6. Aid Effectiveness and the Impact on Health Results

Bibliography

Annex A: Definitions

Annex B: Emerging Donors and Aid Effectiveness in the Health Sector

Annex C: IHP+Results Scorecard Summary of Development Partner and Country Government Performance

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