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| What We Do - Health |
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The need to coordinate the national health system to make it more efficient and able to meet the needs of the population led the Ethiopian Government to engage in a twenty-year strategic plan for health development, known as the Health Sector Development Program (HSDP), was launched in 1998. The Ethiopian Government has adopted the principles of alignment and coordination of aid as set forth in the 'Paris Declaration', and in particular adopted the principle of 'One-Plan, One-budget and One-Report', which aims to coordinate the efforts of donors in the sector and to ensure strategic planning of funding to support national plans. The HSDP, as a national strategic plan for the development of the health sector, answers the need of having a unique sectional planning, as required by the first component of the 'One-Plan, and One-One-Budget Report' principle. The process of alignment and coordination achieved good results in Ethiopia, thanks to the efficiency of the balanced mechanisms between government and donors and the adoption, in 2007, of the ‘coordination guide’ by the Ethiopian government and its partners. In 2008, Ethiopia also signed the 'International Health Partnership - Ethiopia Compact' (IHP - Compact), in order to increase the involvement of donors for the achievement of the "Millennium Development Goals" on health (MDG) through greater participation and a better use of resources aimed at increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of HSDP. The establishment of the MDG Performance Fund (a common fund to which Italy, DFID, Spanish Cooperation, Irish Aid, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, Australia and the Netherlands contribute) was a turning point in the realization of the component 'One Budget', facilitating the concentration of the available financial resources. Furthermore, the reform of the health information system in which the Italian technical assistance played a substantial role, has responded to the need to coordinate the mechanisms of collection, analysis and use of local information for management purposes, thus contributing to the implementation of the "One Report" component. This has led to a growing mobilization of financial resources and their best use, a greater coordination between the actions of the Ministry of Health, and development partners and overall a strengthening of the national health system. |
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