Global collective action in health: The WDR+20 landscape of core and supportive functions

Abstract

Typescript prepared by Janis Vehmaan-Kreula at UNU-WIDER. UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges specific programme contributions from the governments of Denmark (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida) and Sweden (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency-Sida) for ReCom. UNU-WIDER also gratefully acknowledges core financial support to its work programme from the governments of Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) was established by the United Nations University (UNU) as its first research and training centre and started work in Helsinki, Finland in 1985. The Institute undertakes applied research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the developing and transitional economies, provides a forum for the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth, and promotes capacity strengthening and training in the field of economic and social policy-making. Work is carried out by staff researchers and visiting scholars in Helsinki and through networks of collaborating scholars and institutions around the world.

Sustainable care for children with cancer: a Lancet Oncology Commission

“…Global financing is needed to catalyse the response for addressing the childhood cancer burden and for the production of global public goods, such as internationally accepted but contextually-sensitive guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and care; research for the development of effective and efficient care delivery models that coordinate affordable diagnostics, surgery, radiotherapy, medicines and palliative care; harmonized norms and standards for surveillance through development and strengthening of cancer registries in all countries; and, global data for comparative analysis and shared learning. 191 In most countries, domestic sources will provide most of the funding for scaling up services for better management of childhood cancers. The sources are most likely to be from public financing (government budget allocated to health, or health insurance), perhaps with complementary financing from health insurance.…”

Global public goods for health: weaknesses and opportunities in the global health system

“…First, improved data are needed to develop a clearer picture of how much money is currently going to providing which types of GPGs. As several researchers have pointed out, existing data collection systems are not well suited to identifying spending on GPGs and new methods of monitoring such information need to be developed (Blanchet et al ., 2013; Birdsall and Diofasi, 2014; Schäferhoff et al ., 2015). To gain some intuition on current financing levels one could begin by looking at some existing categories of GPGs.…”

Aid, Social Policy and Development

“…After succeeding in eradicating polio, India began to advise other countries in Asia and Africa that still struggle to control the disease. Bangladesh has also provided advice to control diarrhoeal diseases whereas the Aga Khan Development Network facilitates knowledge transfer in integrated primary and secondary care services in poor communities of south and central Asia and east Africa (Blanchet et al, ).…”

“…They are willing to impose high transactions costs on themselves, and most importantly on their recipient partners, to achieve tight control: accountability to donor electorates wins out over aid effectiveness. Riddell and Niño‐Zarazúa (forthcoming); Martínez Álvarez and Acharya () and Blanchet et al () show that the continuation of project aid is to a large extent because of donor governments' desire to track the effect of aid and show results to their constituencies, particularly in times of financial austerity.…”