JOHANNESBURG EVENT

Civil Society Forum on the High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing
for Health Systems
Johannesburg, 13-14 May 2009
Representatives of the High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health
Systems held a second consultation meeting with civil society actors in Johannesburg on 13-
14 May 2009. The purpose of this meeting was to afford civil society representatives,
principally from the South, who had been unable to attend the first consultation meeting a
chance to air their views and share their experiences. The Taskforce was established in
September 2008, in response to the call by world leaders at the UN High Level Event in New
York, for an additional US$30 billion to save 10 million lives – 3 million mothers and 7 million
children. The Taskforce comprises a small number of leading international figures from both
North and South, selected on the basis of perspectives they can offer on innovative
financing, health systems, or the political plausibility of implementation. The Taskforce
members include, among others, Prime Minister Gordon Brown (United Kingdom, co-chair),
Robert Zoellick (World Bank President, co-chair), President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia)
and Graca Machel (President and Founder, Foundation for Community Development,
Mozambique), who attended the Johannesburg conference as a plenary member. The
objectives of the Taskforce are to fill national financing gaps to reach the health MDGs
through mobilizing additional resources; increasing the financial efficiency of health
financing; and enhancing the effective use of funds.

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Mrs Graca Machel, Taskforce member, speaks at Civil
Society meeting in Johannesburg

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Mrs Machel, Taskforce member addresses the Civil          Civil Society representative comments on the meeting
Society meeting                                                               in Johannesburg

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