Addis Ababa, August 26, 2008 -- Nearly a year after the signing of the Global Compact, a compact designed by a group of international organizations and donors in 2007 to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on health, Ethiopia has become the first country to sign its own national Compact.
The Compact was signed August 26 in Addis by The Honourable Minister of Health Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, representing the Federal Government of Ethiopia, and by Mr. Ken Ohashi, World Bank Country Director for Ethiopia, as well as by ambassadors and representatives of Ethiopia’s development partners.
The International Health Partnership (IHP) Compact is an understanding between the Ethiopian Government and Development Partners. The document’s main objective is to provide a framework for increased and effective aid that would enable Ethiopia to make rapid progress towards achieving the MDGs through the Health Sector Development Program (HSDP).
Specifically, the Compact establishes:
- The guiding principles and management arrangements that will be observed between Government and Development Partners in order to improve the contribution of development assistance to achieving health MDGs;
- The commitments and obligations agreed by the Government for the implementation of the Compact;
- A collective target for the level of total aid for health, and particularly of pooled aid, that the signatories collectively provide to Ethiopia in each year during the period 2009-2015;
- The commitments and obligation agreed to by the two parties with regard to the future management of the development assistance;
- The agreed arrangements for monitoring compliance and resolving disputes, and the remedies available in the event of non-compliance with the provisions of this arrangement;
- The overall targets for this compact by 2010.
The IHP Compact provides an overarching framework for health aid coordination in Ethiopia. It further complements specific agreements relating to the Ethiopian aid policy and the code of conduct to promote harmonisation in the nation’s health sector signed between the Government and Development Partners in September 2005 as well as the HSDP Harmonisation Manual published by the Government of Ethiopia in 2007.
Future aid agreements will be framed to be fully consistent with the provisions of the Compact. Although, all clauses of aid agreements that were in existence prior to the signing of the Compact will continue to apply, all of the parties to the agreement are encouraged to make modifications to foresee aid effectiveness and better health of the people of Ethiopia.
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