Challenges to delivering aid for health effectively

There are a number of challenges in effectively delivering aid for health. These challenges arise partly as a result of recipient country constraints (lack of capacity to coordinate and deliver aid, political and economic instability, and weak governance and policy environments). The proliferation of donors and donor behaviour at the country level has exacerbated such country-level constraints, and also created new difficulties for delivering and managing aid. For instance, many GHPs focus on narrow issue specific goals, such as reducing the transmission of malaria or increasing diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.

Tackling these disease specific priorities and programmes sometimes can distort overall funding to the health sector and dislocate resources (e.g. human resources) away from other key areas where they are needed too. Other issues that GHPs raise include a lack of participation in sector wide planning, monitor and evaluation activities, consequently parallel processes are established. Efforts to positively change this are being made by GHPs.