Aid Effectiveness in the Sustainable Development Goals Era; Comment on ““It’s About the Idea Hitting the Bull’s Eye”: How Aid Effectiveness Can Catalyse the Scale-up of Health Innovations”

Document Type : Commentary

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Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, USA

Abstract

Over just a six-year period from 2005-2011, five aid effectiveness initiatives were launched: the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the International Health Partnership plus (2007), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008), the Busan Partnership for Effective Cooperation (2011), and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) (2011). More recently, in 2015, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) was signed at the third international conference on financing for development and the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) 2030 Global Compact was signed in 2017. Both documents espouse principles of aid effectiveness and would most likely guide financing decisions in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) era. This is therefore a good moment to assess whether the aid effectiveness agenda made a difference in development and its relevance in the SDG era.

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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 8, Issue 3
March 2019
Pages 184-186

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  • Receive Date: 09 October 2018
  • Revise Date: 16 December 2018
  • Accept Date: 16 December 2018
  • First Publish Date: 01 March 2019

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