Recommended readings
Recommended readings
- The emerging aid architecture: PRSs and the MDGs
- ( R. Liebenthal;S. Wangwe / UN Economic Commission for Africa , 2006)
- This background paper published by the Economic Commission for Africa, sets out the facts about aid to Africa and reviews the estimates of aid requirements and availabilities. The paper also discusses...
- Aid architecture: an overview of the main trends in official development assistance flows
- ( International Development Association , 2007)
- This paper by the International Development Association reviews the broad trends in Official Development Assistance (ODA) flows; the growing complexity of the existing global aid architecture; and the...
- Mapping global health partnerships: what they are, what they do and where they operate
- ( C. Carlson / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2004)
- This paper, from the DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC) aims to provide a common understanding of what Global Health Partnerships (GHPs) are, how they might be classified and how they operate. The doc...
- Assessing the impact of global health partnerships: country case study report (India, Sierra Leone, Uganda)
- ( C. Carlson; N. Druce; R.| Sadanandan / Department for International Development Health Resource Centre (HRC) , 2004)
- This report, published by the DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), looks at evidence on the impact of global health partnerships (GHPs) at the country level in India, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. It finds...
- New actors in health financing: implications for a donor darling
- ( D. Drechsler;F. Zimmermann / OECD Development Centre , 2006)
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This policy brief, by the OECD Development Centre, examines trends in development finance, focusing on the emergence of new actors such as global funds, foundations and NGOs, who provide additional...
- Effective development assistance: a guide to aid instruments
- ( HLSP Institute, UK , 2005)
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This CD-Rom, produced by the HLSP provides a structured overview of the key aid instrument and development assistance issues. The CD has five modules covering:&n...
- The Uganda health SWAp: new approaches for a more balanced aid architecture?
- ( C. Ortendahl / HLSP Institute, UK , 2007)
- The early years of the Uganda health Sector Wide Approaches (SWAp) are generally considered a success story. However, its performance has subsequently declined. This HLSP paper examines the factors th...
- The Global Fund operating in SWAp through a common fund: issues and lessons from Mozambique
- ( C. Dickinson;J. Martínez;D. Whitaker / HLSP Institute, UK , 2007)
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This policy brief, published by the HLSP, presents the main lessons learned from integrating the Global Fund with broader health sector support and pooled funding arrangements. It is based on a rev...
- Aid instruments and the very poor: the case of Global Health Partnerships
- ( H. Wells / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2005)
- This paper, produced by the DFID Systems Health Resource Centre, reviews the literature on Global Health Partnerships (GHPs) and their impact on the health needs of the very poor. The paper explores ...
- Aid effectiveness and health
- ( R. Dodd;G. Schieber;A. Cassels / World Health Organization , 2007)
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This paper discusses the key challenges in the provision of more effective aid for health. It examines the complexities of the health sector, the challenges to making aid effective and recent eff...
- Medicines without Doctors: why the Global Fund must fund salaries of health workers to expand AIDS treatment
- ( G. Ooms;W. Van Damme;M. Temmerman, / Public Library of Science Medicine , 2007)
- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created to fight three of the world’s most devastating diseases. Recent internal comments from the Global Fund suggest an intention to...
- Effects of the global fund on reproductive health in Ethiopia and Malawi: baseline findings
- ( W. Schott; K. Stillman; S. Bennett / Partners for Health Reformplus , 2005)
- Recommended reading
- This report by Partners for Health Reformplus, assesses the effects of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria (GF), and the activities it supports on reproductive health and family pl...
- Scaling up to achieve the health MDGs in Rwanda
- ( High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) , 2006)
- This Rwandan case study, produced in conjunction with the World Bank, was prepared for the High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It finds that the Rwandan government, thr...
- Priorities in global assistance for health, aids and population
- ( L. MacKeller / OECD Development Centre , 2005)
- This OECD Development Centre paper analyses trends in official development assistance (ODA) for Health, AIDS and Population (HAP). It finds that HIV/AIDS is the top priority in international health as...
- Improving AIDS coordination among multilateral institutions and international donors
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 2005)
- This report from the Global Task Team (GTT), a UNAIDS-led initiative that sets out to improve coordination among multilateral agencies and international donors responding to HIV/AIDS, aims to improve ...
- Sector wide approaches at critical times: the case of Bangladesh
- ( J. Martinez / HLSP Institute, UK , 2008)
- Sector wide approaches (SWAps) have helped countries like Bangladesh to shape government health policy, strengthen its implementation and make health financing more predictable and flexible. However, ...
- Fiscal space and sustainability: towards a solution for the health sector
- ( High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) , 2005)
- Donor commitments to individual countries remain short-term and highly conditional and do not come close to reflecting the global promises of increased aid, while donor disbursement performance remain...
- Learning from experience? a review of recipient-government efforts to manage donor relations and improve the quality of aid
- ( A. Menocal; S. Mulley / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2006)
- This paper reviews the efforts of five countries seen as relatively successful examples of recipient-led aid policies and donor management. These countries are Afghanistan, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ugand...
- Funding flows for health: what might the future hold?
- ( M. Pearson / HLSP Institute, UK , 2007)
- This HLSP paper maps out how overall funding flows for health in developing countries might evolve over the coming years. It considers the key factors that affect levels of spending including governme...
- Paris declaration on aid effectiveness
- ( Aid Harmonization & Alignment , 2005)
- Adopted at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (March 2005) the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, has been prepared with broad participation from development practitioners, through a proce...
- Aid effectiveness: overview of the results 2006 survey on monitoring the Paris Declaration
- ( DAC-OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness and Donor Practices , 2007)
This document presents the first volume of results from a survey on the Paris Declaration. It provides an overview of the key findings across the 34 countries involved, as well as assessing the sur...
- Reforming the international aid architecture: options and ways forward
- ( S. Burall;S. Maxwell;A. R. Menocal / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2006)
- This Overseas Development Institute working paper describes the characteristics and constraints of the current international aid architecture. It also summarises the perceptions in developing countrie...
- Best practice principles for global health partnership activities at country level: report of the working group on global health partnerships
- ( High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) , 2005)
- This background paper for the High-Level Forum on the Health MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) examines how Global health partnerships (GHPs) can help scale up priority health interventions and inve...
- From Paris 2005 to Accra 2008: will aid become more accountable and effective?: a critical approach to the aid effectiveness agenda
- ( CSO Parallel Process to the Ghana High Level Forum Network , 2007)
Civil society organisations (CSOs) continue to lobby for effective implementaiton of the Paris Declaration (PD) on aid effectiveness. This policy paper outlines some of the key CSO critiques and co...
- Joint assistance strategies in Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda
- ( Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark , 2005)
- This study focuses on the on-going process of developing Joint Assistance Strategies (JAS) in Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda. JAS are national, medium term frameworks for managing development cooperation...
- Harmonization for Health in Africa: an action framework
- ( World Health Organization , 2007)
- This paper sets out an initiative by African Development Bank, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank that aims to tackle barriers to scaling up health in Africa. The ‘Harmonisation for H...
- Capacity development and aid effectiveness
- ( D. Silovik / United Nations Development Programme , 2006)
- This UNDP paper seeks to address key policy issues and instruments to improve the effectiveness of development aid. These issues include new aid architecture and the role of the UN systems; new aid mo...
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