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The health systems funding platform and World Bank legacy: the gap between rhetoric and reality
Authors
Scott S Brown ; Kasturi Sen ; Kristof Decoster
Abstract
Global health partnerships created to encourage funding efficiencies need to be approached with some caution, with claims for innovation and responsiveness to development needs based on untested assumptions around the potential of some partners to adapt their application, funding and evaluation procedures within these new structures. We examine this in the case of the Health Systems Funding Platform, which despite being set up some three years earlier, has stalled at the point of implementation of its key elements of collaboration. While much of the attention has been centred on the suspension of the Global Fund’s Round 11, and what this might mean for health systems strengthening and the Platform more broadly, we argue that inadequate scrutiny has been made of the World Bank’s contribution to this partnership, which might have been reasonably anticipated based on an historical analysis of development perspectives.
Document details
| ID: | UH2030-64 |
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| Year: | 2013 |
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| Issue: | 6 March 2013 |
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| Document Type: | Document |
| Health Topic: | Health Information |
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