International Health Partnership (IHP+)

1. International Health Partnership (IHP+) • A global partnership of 30 developing countries and 20 development partners • Putting aid effectiveness into practice in health • To improve health services and outcomes, particularly for the poor and vulnerable. • How does it work? • What is it? • Harmonization – A joint approach to supporting national health strategies • Alignment – working through existing country mechanisms • Mutual Accountability – country and partner scorecards

2. International Health Partnership (IHP+) Harmonizing ways of working • IHP+ partners have developed a shared approach to assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a national health strategy: Joint Assessment of National Strategy (JANS). • This process can help to strengthen national health strategies and increase partner confidence • And has the possibility of reducing transaction costs arising from multiple separate agency assessments • Seven countries have had a JANS: Nepal, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana, Vietnam, Malawi, Rwanda – each assessment was slightly different to suit in-country circumstances.

3. International Health Partnership (IHP+) Aligning to country systems: Nepal • IHP+ partners worked with the Government of Nepal to sign a Joint Financing Arrangement (JFA) agreement • Built off of previous financing arrangement, but expanded to include both pooled and non-pooled partners • Financial management arrangements are streamlined, less burdensome for Nepal – partners put money into different bank accounts, but accept the same audit and financial reports

4. International Health Partnership (IHP+) Mutual Accountability for Results • Pioneering an approach to monitoring sector-level aid effectiveness (IHP+ Results) • Scorecards summarize agency and country progress in implementing their IHP+ commitments • Development of tools that can be used to strengthen existing country-level accountability mechanisms

5. Country & Partner Scorecards