International Health Partnership (IHP+) How does it work? What is it? Harmonization – A joint approach to supporting national health strategies Alignment – working through existing country mechanisms Mutual Accountability – country and partner scorecards A global partnership of 30 developing countries and 20 development partners Putting aid effectiveness into practice in health To improve health services and outcomes, particularly for the poor and vulnerable.

International Health Partnership (IHP+) Harmonizing ways of working IHP+ partners have developed a shared approach to assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a national health strategy: Joint Assessment of National Strategy (JANS). This process can help to strengthen national health strategies and increase partner confidence And has the possibility of reducing transaction costs arising from multiple separate agency assessments Seven countries have had a JANS: Nepal, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana, Vietnam, Malawi, Rwanda – each assessment was slightly different to suit in-country circumstances. SAMSON TO REVIEW AGREED AREAS OF FOCUS Area 1 - linked to session 1, 2, 3 Area 2 - need to unpack – perhaps we could use open session (Session 6) or future meetings to delve deeper Area 3 – linked to session 1, 2, 3, 4 Area 4 – linked to session 5

International Health Partnership (IHP+) Aligning to country systems: Nepal IHP+ partners worked with the Government of Nepal to sign a Joint Financing Arrangement (JFA) agreement NICOLE TO PRESENT DONE – thank you for your contributions to today’s agenda! DONE – we have made Bank staff aware of the Civil Society Consultative Group. If you find that there are still gaps, please let us know and we will continue to do our best to strengthen linkages with Civil Society, especially at the country level. DONE – our conversation in July was very useful and it informed the discussion we had with the Board of Directors. Concept note is not yet final, team beginning an external process of consultation  A consultative process within the Bank led to a more focused approach to the Health and Economy program. We are about to start an external consultative process to ensure that partners agree or have other suggestions. There is a consensus that the work will focus on the conversation/tension between the Ministry of Finance and Ministry Of Health (MOF-MOH), particularly in three areas: 1) value for money, 2) fiscal issues, 3) the health sector and competitiveness 5. Scope of work has expanded; 2 pager with objectives of DM and revised scope of work to be finished late this fall; request for proposals likely to come this winter – will keep CSCG abreast of progress.  We will be organizing a Development Marketplace next year to focus on identifying and supporting activities and innovators at the grassroots level. The objective is to create a platform for "South-South" exchange on successful models for improving reproductive, maternal and neonatal health outcomes through innovative approaches to enhance service delivery and the capacity and performance of health workforce at the community level. As an innovation to the DM itself, our aspiration is to connect innovators with entrepreneurs and development specialists and assist them in strengthening business models, and identify policy interventions that would need to be addressed to scale up and sustain the innovations. An overview of the objectives/scope of the DM is being developed and is expected to be finalized late this fall, with the announcement of the request for proposals by this winter. A) WBI's annual 'Global Flagship Course on Health Systems Strengthening' will not be offered in 2011.  The Flagship team is working to revamp the course and update its content; B) Other learning opportunities have recently been circulated (also included in participant folders) Built off of previous financing arrangement, but expanded to include both pooled and non-pooled partners Financial management arrangements are streamlined, less burdensome for Nepal – partners put money into different bank accounts, but accept the same audit and financial reports

International Health Partnership (IHP+) Mutual Accountability for Results Pioneering an approach to monitoring sector-level aid effectiveness (IHP+ Results) Scorecards summarize agency and country progress in implementing their IHP+ commitments Development of tools that can be used to strengthen existing country-level accountability mechanisms NICOLE TO PRESENT DONE – thank you for your contributions to today’s agenda! DONE – we have made Bank staff aware of the Civil Society Consultative Group. If you find that there are still gaps, please let us know and we will continue to do our best to strengthen linkages with Civil Society, especially at the country level. DONE – our conversation in July was very useful and it informed the discussion we had with the Board of Directors. Concept note is not yet final, team beginning an external process of consultation  A consultative process within the Bank led to a more focused approach to the Health and Economy program. We are about to start an external consultative process to ensure that partners agree or have other suggestions. There is a consensus that the work will focus on the conversation/tension between the Ministry of Finance and Ministry Of Health (MOF-MOH), particularly in three areas: 1) value for money, 2) fiscal issues, 3) the health sector and competitiveness 5. Scope of work has expanded; 2 pager with objectives of DM and revised scope of work to be finished late this fall; request for proposals likely to come this winter – will keep CSCG abreast of progress.  We will be organizing a Development Marketplace next year to focus on identifying and supporting activities and innovators at the grassroots level. The objective is to create a platform for "South-South" exchange on successful models for improving reproductive, maternal and neonatal health outcomes through innovative approaches to enhance service delivery and the capacity and performance of health workforce at the community level. As an innovation to the DM itself, our aspiration is to connect innovators with entrepreneurs and development specialists and assist them in strengthening business models, and identify policy interventions that would need to be addressed to scale up and sustain the innovations. An overview of the objectives/scope of the DM is being developed and is expected to be finalized late this fall, with the announcement of the request for proposals by this winter. A) WBI's annual 'Global Flagship Course on Health Systems Strengthening' will not be offered in 2011.  The Flagship team is working to revamp the course and update its content; B) Other learning opportunities have recently been circulated (also included in participant folders)

Country & Partner Scorecards SAMSON TO GIVE OVERVIEW AND WALK THROUGH AGENDA.