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This chapter aims to briefly review the origins and concept of aid effectiveness (1), the rationale for looking at health and operationalization of aid effectiveness in the health sector (2), the main lessons from the work done by the OECD Task Team on Health as a Tracer Sector (HATS) (3) and, finally, it formulates few ideas about possible follow-up to this work stream (4).
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ODA commitments increased between 1995 and 2009, from 3.9 to 19.9 billion respectively, in 2009 in USD constant prices.
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In the context of these previous discussions, ineffective discussions would be illustrated as unpredictable, not aligned and generating too much transaction costs in developing countries.
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The current membership of the Task Team includes representatives from WHO and Mali (as co-Chairs), Ghana, Madagascar, GFATM, GAVI Alliance, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS, IHP+ Results, Action for Global health, African Development Bank, Belgium, Sweden and IFC.
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23/06 2008, 24/11/2008, 2/04/2009, 16/10/2009, 12/02/2010, 22–23/03/2010, 26/10/2010, 20/08/2011 and 12/09/2011.
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One for HLF3 in Accra (“Effective Aid—Better Health”, September 2008) which served as a background for a high-level Side event on “Predictability of Aid: Challenges and Responses—Experience in the health sector” (2 September 2008, Accra), an interim report (“Aid to better health—what are we learning about what works and what we still have to do”, November 2009) and a final report “Progress and challenges in aid effectiveness: what can we learn from the health sector?” (24 June 2011).
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Including a proposal for a high-level discussion in Busan, a building block on “Who runs health?” and inputs for the Mali “focus country initiative”.
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As part of the Paris Declaration process, two rounds of independent evaluation have been conducted (2008 and 2011) to review and assess the impact of the Paris Declaration with a strong focus on developing countries.
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“Progress and challenges in aid effectiveness, what can we learn from the Health sector?” OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness Task Team on Health as a tracer sector, 24 June 2011. Accessible at: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/61/22/48298309.pdf.
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A single performance assessment framework, as opposed to several donor reporting and assessment mechanisms, would better support country ownership and capacity building.
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Sandor, E. (2015). Assessing and Promoting More Progress in Health; the Role of Health as a Tracer Sector at the OECD. In: Beracochea, E. (eds) Improving Aid Effectiveness in Global Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2721-0_4
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