FAQ
IHP and Health 8
- How does the H8 intend to take the IHP+ work forward?
- What is the H8 doing to ensure mutual accountability and to monitor performance?
1/ How does the H8 intend to take the IHP+ work forward?
The H8 have developed an inter-agency IHP+ work-plan, the objectives of which are to:
- Develop 'country compacts' that commit development partners to provide sustained and predictable funding and increase harmonization and alignment in support of results orientated national plans and strategies that also tackle health system constraints;
- Generate and disseminate knowledge, guidance and tools in specific technical areas to related to strengthening health systems and services;
- Enhance co-ordination and efficiency as well as leverage predictable and sustained aid delivery for health; and
- Ensure mutual accountability and monitoring of performance.
2/ What is the H8 doing to ensure mutual accountability and to monitor performance?
Agency constraints will be addressed at HQ levels as bottlenecks are identified in-country; the first priority has been to review procurement policies across international agencies, in particular the World Bank and UNICEF. An inter-agency group has made significant progress in developing a unified health sector monitoring and evaluation framework and several countries have shown interest in considering how this could be implemented, linked to strengthening national institutions.
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