Brown Bag Lunch
Joint Assessment of National Health Strategy (JANS) - Ethiopia Experience

Sponsored by
HDNHE and AFTHE

Thursday
November 11, 2010
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Room G7-161
(1776 G Street NW)

(Boxed lunch will be served.)

RSVP/registration
required.

Please contact:
Andrianina Noro Rafamatanantsoa
arafamat@worldbank.org

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Presenters
Feng Zhao
Senior Health Specialist, AFTHE
Chair of Ethiopia Health, Nutrition and Population Development Partner Group

Nicole Klingen
Senior Health Specialist, HDNHE

Discussants
Kees Kostermans
Lead Public Health Specialist, SASHN

Benjamin Loevinsohn
Lead Public Health Specialist, AFTHE

Dave Gwatkin
Senior Fellow, Results for Development

Chair
Mukesh Chawla
Sector Manager, HDNHE

Under the International Health Partnership initiative (IHP+), guidelines and tool for Joint Assessment of National Strategy (JANS) have been developed to facilitate countries moving toward “one plan”. Several countries have adopted and increasingly more countries are exploring the JANS guidelines and tool in the process of developing the health sector strategies.
Ethiopia is developing its fourth Health Sector Development Program (HSDP IV) for the period 2011-2015, building on the successful implementation of HSDP III.

Ethiopia is a hopeful country to reach the health MDGs despite its low income level, HSDP IV is seen as a crucial plan during the final rush to reach the MDGs.  To rally everyone around the same set of priorities, the Ethiopia Government and development partners decided to use the JANS tool to finalize the HSDP IV.

After being the first country to sign the IHP+ Compact globally, Ethiopia is among the first group of countries that conducted JANS.  It experience in the JANS could be valuable to other developing countries.
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