Taskforce Consultations

The Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems is working to identify the challenges and costs of strengthening health systems and to identify new sources of finance to help developing countries achieve the health Millennium Development Goals. The objective of the Taskforce is to contribute to meeting national financing gaps for health systems to reach the health Millennium Development Goals by providing recommendations on how best to:

• Mobilize new resources
• Increase the volume and efficiency of health financing
• Enhance the use of raised funds

The scope of the work of the Taskforce is set out in the Terms of Reference. The Taskforce is keen to consult stakeholders and the wider public as they develop their recommendations on innovative financing mechanisms to help complement traditional aid and to deliver and bring forward the financing urgently needed. Your views are critical in achieving real change n how global health services can be improved.

• World leaders called for an additional US$30 billion to save 10 million lives – 3million mothers and 7 million children
• Stronger health systems critical to saving these lives require resources from the international community. For this reason the Taskforce was established
• Halfway to 2015, numerous countries are lagging behind in reaching the health Millennium Development Goals
• Traditional increases in donor aid budgets will not be enough to provide the additional resources to meet the health MDGs so need new streams of funding
• Developing countries will undoubtedly be hit hardest by the current financial crisis.
• Need to prevent this financial crisis from becoming a human crisis