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International Health Partnership (IHP)

In response to the challenge of achieving the health-related MDGs, UK Prime Minister (PM) Gordon Brown, joined by the PM of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg launched the International Health Partnership on September 5, 2007. It calls for all signatories to accelerate action to scale up coverage and use of health services, and deliver improved outcomes against the health related MDGs and universal access commitments.

Ministers from Zambia, Burundi, Mozambique, Kenya, Nepal, Ethiopia, and Cambodia and OECD country Ministers from France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, and Germany were also present and signed on behalf of their governments. International development institutions and agencies that signed the compact include: WHO, the World Bank, UNDG, UNICEF, the African Union Commission, AfDB, GFATM, GAVI, The European Commission, UNFPA, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and UNAIDS.

The International Health Partnership is part of the Global Campaign for Health MDGs, which was launched on September 26, 2007 in NY by PM Jens Stoltenberg of Norway.

In response to the broad range of initiatives with similar goals of accelerating the achievement of the health related MDGs in line with the Paris Declaration, the International Health Partnership and the related initiatives have created a coordination process and common work-plan, so called the IHP+. Please see the section on IHP and related initiatives (IHP+) for more information.

For more information, please click on the link below.
A Global "Compact" for achieving the Health MDGs (pdf)

Harmonization for Health in Africa (HHA)

The HHA mechanism is consolidating itself as the operational and capacity building support modality to countries and development partners to facilitate three major goals:

1. evidence- and country-based planning, costing and budgeting for health outcomes;
2. alignment to country processes and harmonization; and
3. systems bottleneck analysis and support to overcome them. Developed by the AfDB, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS, WHO, and the World Bank, the HHA is an Action Framework for 'tackling the barriers to scaling up in health'.

For more information, please click on the link below.
Harmonization for Health in Africa (pdf)