Event Summary
Donor assistance for health-related activities in developing countries has grown rapidly in the last several years. Unfortunately, the levels of aid still fall far short of what is needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Additionally, shifting policy priorities and fluctuations in aid funding create ongoing challenges for donor agencies and aid recipients as they try to project and plan for global health needs. To help address these issues, policymakers and the private sector have developed a number of new, innovative financing tools to generate health aid more efficiently and effectively.
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When
Monday, October 22, 2007
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Where
Somers Room
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
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On October 22, Brookings hosted a discussion of key issues in innovative financing for global health from the donors’ perspective with a distinguished panel of international government officials. Panelists included Caroline Kayonga, Rwanda; Owen Barder, United Kingdom; Carlo Monticelli, Italy; Jean-Michel Severino, France; and, Ruud Treffers, The Netherlands. Brookings’s David de Ferranti introduced and moderated the discussion.
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Owen Barder: Let me say something I think which may be controversial--it will be interesting to hear if the other speakers share this view -- about what innovative financing in health is not. And what I didn’t think it is about is finding new money for global health. That’s my controversial statement.
There is no doubt in my mind that we need to find more money for health needs. Estimates you’re all familiar with the
Microeconomic Commission on Health estimates somewhere between $30 billion and $70 billion a year needed. That’s nothing actually in the grand scheme of things, but it’s a helluva’ lot by comparison with global aid flows. It would be about a 50 percent increase in aid just on health.
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Participants
Panelists
Owen Barder
Director of Global Development Effectiveness, Department for International Development, United Kingdom
Jurgen Zattler
Head of Division, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
Pierre Jacquet
Executive Director for Strategy, Agence Française de Développement, France
Ruud Treffers
Director-General of International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
Carlo Monticelli
Director, International Financial Relations Department, Ministry of Economics and Finance, Italy
Caroline Kayonga
Permanent Secretary of Health, Rwanda