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From the Ground Up: Improving Government Performance with Independent Monitoring Organizations

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From the Ground Up argues that the international community’s efforts to improve public expenditure and budget execution decisions would be more effective if done in collaboration with local independent monitoring organizations.

From the Ground Up argues that the international community’s efforts to improve public expenditure and budget execution decisions would be more effective if done in collaboration with local independent monitoring organizations.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2010
R4D Author(s): 
Courtney Tolmie
Author(s): 
Dr. Stephen Kosack, Charles C. Griffin
Funder(s): 
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Connected Project: 
The Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP)

Special Report on the State of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

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Earlier this year, a group of South Africa's forfront HIV experts met to share ideas on how to best reduce the epidemic. This Global Health Magazine article, coauthored by Managing Director Robert Hecht, discusses the main points of that meeting.

On January 21, a group of South Africa’s leading HIV experts met in Cape Town to discuss the state of prevention and treatment in the AIDS epidemic. Council on Foreign Relations Global Fellow Dr. Peter Navario convened the meeting for HIV/AIDS thinkers, policy makers, and practitioners to share ideas on how to best tackle the epidemic. This article, coauthored by Managing Director Robert Hecht, summarizes the analysis and recommendations that emerged from that meeting.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2010
Main Contact: 
Robert Hecht
R4D Author(s): 
Robert Hecht
Author(s): 
Peter Navario
Link to Publication-Resource: 
http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/summary/front_line_aids_fight

R4D to host special session with global leaders on AIDS costs and policy choices

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9 June, 2010

How much will the fight against AIDS cost in the coming years, who will pay for it in the midst of global economic crisis and competing spending priorities, and how can governments better use their scarce AIDS resources to have the greatest impact on the epidemic?

Connected Expert(s): 
Aarthi Rao
Connected Expert(s): 
Carleigh Krubiner
Connected Expert(s): 
David de Ferranti
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
Connected Project(s): 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Attached File(s): 
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Dr. Apuuli - bio.pdf
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Bio - DR. BENSON CHIRWA.pdf
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Rifat Atun bio Global Fund_5Mar2010.pdf
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Paul D. Bouey bio.pdf

“Strengthening Institutions” country partners convene in Prague to present research on public expenditure accountability

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13 January, 2010

As part of efforts to build international benchmarks for the quality of public spending and promote informed decisions on resource allocations in developing countries, the Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) and Global Development Network co-hosted the first peer review workshop for the Strengthening Institutions program in Prague on January 13th-15th.

Connected Expert(s): 
Courtney Heck
Connected Expert(s): 
Courtney Tolmie
Connected Expert(s): 
Nicholas Burnett
Connected Project(s): 
Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability

Joint Learning Workshop: Moving Toward Universal Health Coverage

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As a first step toward the development of an ongoing, multi-country cross-learning platform, several countries and their development partners convened a joint learning workshop in Delhi, India in February 2010. The workshop brought together practitioners from six countries to share learning around the successes and problem-solve around the challenges of implementing demand-side health financing reforms to expand health coverage.

Over the past decade, a number of national or state-level reforms have been implemented by governments that are committed to expanding health coverage through “demand-side” (third-party) financing models, to reach the poorest and informal sectors of their populations.  These reforms are ambitious in their goals, but challenging to implement successfully.  Many organizations and initiatives currently provide helpful policy assistance for and generate valuable information on these new and innovative reforms.

Main Contact: 
Sapna Singh Kundra
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Alice Garabrant
Brian Latko
Carleigh Krubiner
Gina Lagomarsino
Maria Belenky
Robert Hecht
Sapna Singh Kundra

“Critical Choices in Financing” – Findings from AIDS2031 featured in Health Affairs

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3 November, 2009

By the year 2031, the AIDS pandemic will enter its 50th year, and funding needed to fight the pandemic in developing countries could reach as much as $35 billion annually – unless wise choices are made today to spend more efficiently and focus on prevention activities that can lower the number of new infections in the future and moderate costs for treatment and other measures to mitigate the negative impacts of AIDS on individuals and their communities.

Connected Expert(s): 
David de Ferranti
Connected Expert(s): 
Farzana Muhib
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
Connected Expert(s): 
William McGreevey
Connected Project(s): 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Funder: 
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
Funder: 
UNAIDS

Lessons from Rwanda: MLI Countries, Mali and Senegal, Send Delegations to Rwanda for Joint Study Tour on Mutuelles and Performance-Based Health Financing

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In the spirit of South-South learning, two participant countries in the Ministerial Leadership Initiative (MLI), Mali and Senegal, recently completed a week long study tour in Rwanda to obtain a deeper understanding of the conceptual underpinnings, operational approaches, and lessons learned from the Rwandan implementation of mutual health insurance schemes and performance-based financing.

Connected Expert(s): 
Aarthi Rao
Connected Expert(s): 
Alison Ion
Connected Expert(s): 
Amanda Folsom
Connected Expert(s): 
Marty Makinen
Connected Project(s): 
Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health
Attached File(s): 
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MLI_Debriefing for Study Tour in Rwanda.pdf
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Participant list- Final.pdf
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Program_Senegal_FINAL_English.pdf
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Programme_Mali_FINAL_English.pdf

Ghana Country Assessment receives local media coverage

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2 September, 2009

Aug 21, Accra, GHANA – The Ghana News Agency recently picked up a story about one of our newest projects, an assessment of the private health sector in Ghana (Click here for project profile). Though not itself directly mentioned, R4D leads the “group of researchers, [and] local and international consultants” involved in the joint World Bank Group/Ministry of Health initiative.

Connected Expert(s): 
Kira Thorien
Connected Expert(s): 
Marty Makinen
Connected Expert(s): 
Stephanie Sealy
Connected Project(s): 
Country Assessment of the Private Health Sector in Ghana
Funder: 
The World Bank

TAP hosts launch workshops in New Delhi and Kampala for its newest grantees

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24 August, 2009

R4D’s Transparency and Accountability Program, led by project coordinator Courtney Tolmie, visited New Delhi on July 21, 2009 and Kampala on July 29, 2009 to bring together its grantees from its latest grant round. Tolmie, assisted by program associate Courtney Heck, facilitated 3-day launch workshops in which grantees received technical training from experts on public expenditure tracking methodologies, discussed program goals, and met fellow participants.

Connected Expert(s): 
Courtney Heck
Connected Expert(s): 
Courtney Tolmie
Connected Project(s): 
The Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP)
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