The position of health in sustainable development negotiations: a survey of negotiators and review of post-Rio+20 processes

Eliasz, Michael W Kalmus; Laplante, Neil De; Boel, Anneleen; Makuka, Gerald Jamberi; Williams, Kimberly G.; Walumbe, Rispah J; Bertani, Laura; Petrin-Desrosiers, Claudel; Runyan, Aliye; Wiley, Elizabeth L.; Mushtaq, Usman; Mello, Arthur; Singh, Sudvhir; Meldrum, Jonathan; Dhatt, Roopa

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(13)70135-9

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“…Yet respondents’ unanimous concession there will only be one post-2015 health goal is surprising in terms of the global health community’s negotiating position: in the early post-2015 consultation phase, before outright State negotiations begin, there was already pervasive and somewhat impassive acceptance that health would receive one goal only. This could be interpreted as relief that health was included, given its late inclusion in the Rio+20 Conference’s outcome document ( Eliasz et al. 2013 ), and absence from the original proposal.…”

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Universal Health Coverage’s evolving location in the post-2015 development agenda: Key informant perspectives within multilateral and related agencies during the first phase of post-2015 negotiations

Brolan

Hill

2015

Health Policy Plan.

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In 2001, technocrats from four multilateral organizations selected the Millennium Development Goals mainly from the previous decade of United Nations (UN) summits and conferences. Few accounts are available of that significant yet cloistered synthesis process: none contemporaneous. In contrast, this study examines health’s evolving location in the first-phase of the next iteration of global development goal negotiation for the post-2015 era, through the synchronous perspectives of representatives of key multilateral and related organizations. As part of the Go4Health Project, in-depth interviews were conducted in mid-2013 with 57 professionals working on health and the post-2015 agenda within multilaterals and related agencies. Using discourse analysis, this article reports the results and analysis of a Universal Health Coverage (UHC) theme: contextualizing UHC’s positioning within the post-2015 agenda-setting process immediately after the Global Thematic Consultation on Health and High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (High-Level Panel) released their post-2015 health and development goal aspirations in April and May 2013, respectively. After the findings from the interview data analysis are presented, the Results will be discussed drawing on Shiffman and Smith (Generation of political priority for global health initiatives: a framework and case study of maternal mortality. The Lancet 2007; 370: 1370–79) agenda-setting analytical framework (examining ideas, issues, actors and political context), modified by Benzian et al. (2011). Although more participants support the High-Level Panel’s May 2013 report’s proposal—‘Ensure Healthy Lives’—as the next umbrella health goal, they nevertheless still emphasize the need for UHC to achieve this and thus be incorporated as part of its trajectory. Despite UHC’s conceptual ambiguity and cursory mention in the High-Level Panel report, its proponents suggest its re-emergence will occur in forthcoming State led post-2015 negotiations. However, the final post-2015 SDG framework for UN General Assembly endorsement in September 2015 confirms UHC’s continued distillation in negotiations, as UHC ultimately became one of a litany of targets within the proposed global health goal.

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