Oxfam International

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Oxfam International

• EC budget support
• Esmé Berkhout

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Why more budget support

• Governments delivering basic rights
• 4,25 million health workers missing
• Aid quality - Paris and Accra
• General Budget Support (GBS) now only 5 of
  global aid

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What we like about EC GBS

• Right kind of conditions
• outcomes in health and education
• increased spending on basic services
• improvements in Public Financial Management (PFM)

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Positive results

• Out of the top ten recipients EC GBS
• 7 Increased spending on health
• 7 Improved health outcomes

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What could be better

• Improve predictability - MDG contracts major step
• More health sector budget support
• Stronger link to health
• Involve line ministries, MPs, CSOs
• Do more to ensure citizens can hold their
  government to account