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Political leaders, experts call for innovation in sustainable funding
Global health experts and political leaders meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, have said finding innovative ways to optimize funding for health programs in developing and middle-income countries will be a key to their development and economic growth
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lobal health experts and political leaders meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, have said finding innovative ways to optimize funding for health programs in developing and middle-income countries will be a key to their development and economic growth.
At a private dinner convened by the Center for Global Health and Diplomacy and its partners, on Thursday night, a diverse group of health and finance experts, donors and corporate partners addressed a future in which national governments would take on increasing responsibility for funding their own health programs and opportunities
to create efficiencies at the country level to make best use of available resources as traditional models of donor funding came under sustained pressure.
Urging countries to stop early marriage and instead empower girls and women to play an equal role in shaping their society's future, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada was committed to working with partners to focus on this issue and bring about results.
'We want to see society taking advantage of every member of that society. It is not just a question of human rights. It's about development and economic growth,' he said in a statement made available to The Jakarta Post on Saturday.
The meeting participants discussed how they could work together to advance new finance mechanisms to optimize the return on investments in health.
Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, who was among the meeting participants, proposed a dramatic reduction in the cost of delivering health services at the grassroots level driven by technology and funded through social business solutions.
'The future of health services is technology,' he said.
'Technologies such as mobile phones can now be used to deliver health care from people's homes, literally bringing services to people's doorsteps and saving so many costs.' (ebf)
