Value for Money: An Agenda for Global Health Funding Agencies

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As international commitments become more ambitious and aid resources become increasingly constrained, global health funding agencies are seeking to improve the efficiency and impact of their investments. This growing “value for money” (VfM) agenda aims to reduce costs, increase impact per dollar spent and focus investments on the highest impact interventions among the most affected populations.

The Center for Global Development (CGD) is applying its working group approach to analyze evidence, pose questions and offer high impact recommendations to improve V4M in global health funding agencies. The focus is primarily on the Global Fund, although the working group’s recommendations will be of relevance to both bilateral and multilateral funders.

The working group convened in April 2012 and November 2012. Following these meetings, and a series of consultative meetings and other rounds of feedback, the working group identified several opportunities for improved efficiency—including performance-based funding, allocation between countries, and allocation between various health interventions—as the primary areas for recommendations. The final working group report is expected in July 2013.

Members and Composition:

The Value for Money working group is chaired by Amanda Glassman, director of Global Health Policy and research fellow at CGD. Members of the Working Group were invited to join in a personal capacity and on a voluntary basis, and include experts from the public health sectors in developing and developed countries, technical and funding agencies, advocacy organizations and academia.

Working Group Members:

Amanda Glassman, CGD, Working Group Chair
David Barr, Pangaea Global Aids Foundation
Joseph Brunet-Jailly, Institut de recherche pour le développement and Sciences-Po Paris
Chalkidou, NICE International
Karl Dehne, UNAIDS
Alan Fairbank, Independent
Victoria Fan, CGD
Kara Hanson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Robert Hecht, Results for Development
Iain Jones, DFID
Bruno Meessen, Institute of Tropical Medicine
Mead Over, CGD
Nancy Padian, Independent
Mark Rilling, USAID
Oliver Sabot, Independent
Josh Salomon, Harvard School of Public Health
Nalinee Sangrujee, CDC
Nina Schwalbe, GAVI Alliance
Bernard Schwartlander, UNAIDS
David Serwadda, Makerere University School of Public Health
Agnes Soucat, African Development Bank
Yot Teerawattananon, HiTAP
Damian Walker, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Brenda Waning, UNITAID
Diana Weil, WHO
David Wilson, World Bank
Prashant Yadav, University of Michigan
Gavin Yamey, UCSF