The International Health Partnership (IHP)

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The International Health Partnership (IHP)

• Anna Marriott
• Health Policy Officer
• Oxfam GB

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Outline

• The IHP
• What is it and what will it do?
• What has happened since the launch?
• What we want it to deliver

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Fragmentation
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What is it and what will it do?

• IHP launched in the UK on 5th September 2007
• Partnership signed by
• -8 rich country donors, H8 and other donors
• -8 First Wave IHP countries Nepal, Cambodia,
  Mozambique, Kenya, Burundi, Zambia, Ethiopia and
  Mali
• -second wave countries due to sign up Ghana,
  Madagascar, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Benin

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What is it and what will it do?

• All commit to
• Accelerate progress on the health MDGs
• Increase access to health services
• Strengthen health systems with an emphasis on
  health workers

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What is it and what will it do?

• Donors commit to
• Co-ordinate support for ONE national health plan
• Provide more long-term predictable aid
• Fill critical funding gaps
• Transparency and mutual accountability

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What is it and what will it do?

• Governments commit to
• Increase spending on health
• Implement plans as efficiently as possible
• Be accountable to their citizens and involve
  civil society in their plans so they can give
  feedback and monitor performance

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Whats its not

• A global health fund

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What has happened so far?

• Lots of meetings
• International governance structure
• 3 key tasks at country level
• 1. Strengthen existing national health plan
• 2. Cost plan
• 3. Road map for implementation
• SIGN COUNTRY COMPACT

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Civil society participation and accountability?

• Donors and governments generally not living up to
  their commitments
• Few meetings with civil society at international
  level
• Varying performance at country level
• But we are not sitting back..and we need your
  help

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The IHP a window of opportunity?

• A number of problems but..
• A focus on health systems (and workers)
• Donors and government are accountable to the
  commitments they have made
• One target one space to focus our energies
• We can help shape it still early days
• Growing international network of CSOs bottom up
  and top down strategy for change

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Oxfams demands for IHP

• Country level
• More long-term predictable aid on budget
• Expand free public provision of health
• Address urgent capacity constraints
• Government to ensure money and drugs reach where
  they are supposed to
• Full and formal representation of civil society
  in health planning and monitoring

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Oxfams demands for IHP

• At international level
• More donors sign up
• Transparency and accountability
• A system to monitor progress
• Resources to support civil society participation

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This week

• 3 high profile IHP meetings stakeholders come
  together for the first time
• Collective civil society demands
• Recommitment to comprehensive primary health care
  for all
• Commit to ADDITIONAL long-term predictable
  financing for health systems
• Democratic, transparent and accountable
  governance mechanisms

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Other Oxfam activities

• Alma Ata anniversary will ministers recommit to
  health care for all?
• Tuesday 20th May, 5.30pm Improving Innovation
  Access to Medicines
• Wednesday 21st May, 5.30pm In the Public
  Interest? What role can the private sector play
  in delivering health care for all