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Is European Aid Skepticism Going to Drive Aid Innovation?

4/27/12
William Savedoff

Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid) is moving from concept to reality as I learned in a recent trip to Europe. In the process we are learning a lot about measuring outcomes and other implementation challenges. While I heard about the ways aid agencies are beginning to try COD Aid or similar initiatives, the internal resistance they face told me a lot about the internal contradictions we’ve lived with in foreign aid for a long time.

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Death by Tobacco: A Big Problem Needs Bigger Action

7/12/11
William Savedoff

Recently, I had the privilege of attending a meeting to discuss tobacco control in New York City where I was reminded of the massive loss of life associated with tobacco use, the extremely cost-effective approaches available to combat tobacco use, and some very exciting progress around the world over the last five years. Nevertheless, controlling tobacco is still extremely challenging on the social and political fronts.

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A New Report Slams the World Bank’s Support of Health Systems for Insufficient Focus on Results

6/15/10
Mead Over

The Washington-based NGO ACTION has just released a report on the effectiveness of the World Bank’s preeminent instrument for strengthening health sectors in poor countries: the Sector Wide Approach or SWAp. Through a SWAp the World Bank and other donors collectively provide broad financial support to a country’s health sector, in order to foster country ownership and to coordinate all the many parts of the health sector toward improving the population’s health status.

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Women Deliver 2010: A Second Chance for the World to Deliver for Women

6/8/10
Nandini Oomman

The much-anticipated Women Deliver 2010 conference opened with a rousing call for global action for women’s health. A star-studded line-up of health and development leaders committed themselves and urged others to do more to reduce child and maternal deaths. The rhetoric and passion sounds a lot like the calls we heard fifteen years ago that went unheeded. Today there is a second chance for the world to deliver for women. Will this time be different?

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Canada Reported Ready to Spend $1 Billion to Cut Maternal Mortality—How To Use the Money Well

6/3/10
Nandini Oomman

This is a joint post with Katherine Douglas.

The Canadian press reports that Ottawa is

telling other G8 countries that Canada is willing to put about $1 billion toward maternal and child health — as long as other countries ante up too… The Canadian cash will likely target poor countries with the worst records of maternal and child mortality and malnutrition.

The news follows Canadian PM Stephen Harper’s January announcement that improving maternal and child health would be his country’s signature initiative.

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