GHI: Collaborating for Impact
The U.S. will promote country ownership and align our investments with country-owned plans, including improved coordination across U.S. agencies and with other donors, with the aim of making programs sustainable. Some examples of ongoing efforts include:
- Supporting efforts to engage in true partnership with countries by enabling them to plan, coordinate, manage, and oversee their health systems;
- Scaling up operational research that identifies new health strategies and better ways to implement them, and integrating and coordinating health strategies across health programs;
- Integrating and coordinating technical support and policy dialogue across U.S. agencies;
- Promoting an evidence-based focus on women, girls, and gender equality to improve health;
- Promoting capacity-building, learning and evidence-based decisions through more rigorous monitoring, evaluation and operational and implementation research;
- Supporting increased integration and coordination among country-level stakeholders, including partner country governments, other donors, and nongovernmental organizations;
- Coordinating more effectively among U.S. agencies and other funders to reduce the burden of reporting by both establishing consistent reporting elements and reducing the number of reports; and
- Identifying and linking health programs with other development areas, including water and sanitation, food security, education, microenterprise, and governance/civil society programs.
Under GHI, the U.S. will look for greater opportunities to increase impact through strategic coordination and integration. Some examples of ongoing efforts include:
- Kenya: Strategic coordination and integration lead to improved health
- Nigeria: Integrating programs increases family planning services
Through GHI, the U.S. will also look for opportunities to increase the sustainability of its programming by investing in country-led plans; for example: