Establishing clear accountability mechanisms for the International Health Partnership
06 December 2007
The Alliance and Action for Global Health have continued to communicate questions and concerns over the International Health Partnership to the UK Department for International Development and World Health Organisation to try to ensure that clear accountability mechanisms are established that involve civil society at all levels of the IHP. Read our latest submission to DIFD and WHO here.
In September 2007, the UK’s Department for International Development launched the International Health Partnership. Part of the Scaling up for Better Health Initiative, the IHP is a partnership of eight developing country governments, donor governments, and the ‘Health 8’ agencies: the Global Fund, GAVI Alliance, WHO, World Bank, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS, and the Gates Foundation, that aims to ensure better coordination of aid for health at a national level in order to achieve the Health Millennium Development Goals (these include MDG 4 on reducing child mortality, MDG 5 on improving maternal health, and MDG 6 on combating HIV, AIDS, malaria and other infectious diseases).
Since September 2007 the Alliance and Action for Global Health have been in ongoing dialogue with the International Health Partnership to highlight potential challenges with its implementation and to determine the level of engagement that civil society engagement will have with this new partnership.
The most recent opportunity to input into these discussions was with the publication of the implementation plan for the International Health Partnership that was presented to UK civil society at a meeting with DFID in late October.
