Accelerating Progress Towards the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other Health Outcomes

This activity was cancelled, please contact us for more details

 

Money counts! However, more money and even rapid economic growth are not enough to achieve desirable Health Outcomes and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Systems structure and efficiency matter, as do supporting institutions, households and communities, policies and politics. While there is long-standing recognition that health outcomes are significantly determined at the household level and are greatly affected by factors outside the health sector such as water and sanitation and transport infrastructure, policies continue mainly to focus on supply production factors within the health sector. 

This new program approaches health outcomes from the demand side through a multisectoral perspective, looking into mechanisms such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), and Sector Wide Approaches (SWAPs) The course underscores the different roles necessary at each different sector for a multisectoral approach, the need for coordination at the central level, and also alignment of donors with national processes - especially budgets - to ensure harmonization. This course will build capacity for developing multisectoral health outcome strategies, emphasizing that better effective interventions, actions and policies exist and that adaptation to the country situation is critical.

 

Objectives

The course will share information, tools and knowledge of reforms and essential public health functions in order to empower participants to become effective agents of change. Specific learning objectives include:

• Learning how to apply a framework to better achieve health, nutrition, and population outcomes
• Understanding the role of the public sector, and the impact of health systems performance on the MDGs
• Using health sector reform to achieve health outcomes
• Learning how to apply diagnostic, planning and implementation support tools

Target Audience

 

Government officials, donor community technical staff, and private sector practitioners involved in planning and executions of health outcomes related policy making and programs and project design and implementation. Country teams encouraged.

Registration is closed.

Financial Information

The course fee is USD1,500.00. In addition to the fee, participants are expected to cover their own travel, accommodation, and subsistence expenses. Hotel cost for 14 days is approximately USD2,500.00. Subsistence expenses are approximately USD850.00 for 14 days.  

 

For more information about content please contact

• Michelle Morris (Administrative)
  World Bank Institute - Health and AIDS program
  1818 H St. NW, Mail Stop# J 3-302
  Washington DC 20433
  Tel:    +1 202-473-7285
  Fax:   +1 202-522-0638
  Email:   mmorris1@worldbank.org
• Isabel Rocha Pimenta, Health Specialist
  World Bank Institute - Health and AIDS program
  1818 H St. NW, Mail Stop# J 3-302
  Washington DC 20433
  Tel.     +1-202-458-1429
  Fax:    +1-202-676-0961
  Email:  irochapimenta@worldbank.org
• Gaston Sorgho, Sr. Public Health Specialist
  World Bank Institute - Health and AIDS program
  1818 H St. NW, Mail Stop# J 3-302
  Tel.    +1 202-458-5260
  Fax:   +1 202-522-0638
  Email: gsorgho@worldbank.org