The IDA22 Replenishment

I recently proposed an IDA Health Window as the future of multilateral global health financing. The proposal is beginning to gain traction. It has received interest (mostly positive, but always with good, constructive challenges) from colleagues associated with the Accra Reset; Africa CDC and the Af...

The global health architecture is facing a financing crisis. Various proposals have been put forward, including an IDA Health Window—a ring-fenced fund at the World Bank for countries to seek support for financing their health systems. But could the World Bank absorb and effectively channel a greate...

Our hope is that stakeholders will coalesce around a series of reforms to address deficiencies in the current model that have led to a surfeit of IDA-eligible countries above the income threshold, constraining allocations for countries most in need, and support an increased allocation of World Bank ...