PSIREN

The Taskforce will report to the G8 in July 2009. Prior to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2009, the Taskforce will conduct further consultations and facilitate the preparation of implementation plans for the recommended innovative financing mechanisms with relevant stakeholders. A regular forum will be facilitated by WHO and the World Bank to allow countries and partners, including civil society, to monitor progress.  Recommendations –
 
1: The Taskforce highlights the critical need to raise up to an additional US$10 billion per year to spend on health in poor countries.
 
2: Expand the mandatory solidarity levy on airline tickets and explore the technical
viability of other solidarity levies on tobacco and currency transactions.
 
3: Expand the use of the International Financing Facility for Immunization and other
approaches to ensure predictability.
 
4: Provide public catalytic funding for large-scale private giving initiatives such as voluntary solidarity contributions and a proposed “De-Tax”.
 
5: Establish or expand existing funds for results-based “buy-down” funding.
 
6: Strengthen the capacity of governments to secure better performance and investment from private, faith-based, community, NGO and other non-state actors in the health sector.
 
7: Make the allocation of existing and additional funds in countries more efficient, by
filling gaps in costed and agreed national health strategies.
 
8: The Taskforce requests OECD/DAC with partners to undertake a review of all current
technical assistance, with a view to focusing it on strengthening national and local institutional capacity in priority areas such as public administration and accountability, financing, service delivery arrangements and the non-state sectors.
 
9: Establish a health systems funding platform for the Global Fund, GAVI Alliance, the World Bank and others to coordinate, mobilize, streamline and channel the flow of existing and new international resources to support national health strategies.
 
10: To monitor how well we are doing, a regular forum will be held for countries and
partners, building on the IHP+ Ministerial Review.