Overseas Development Administration : health and population overseas aid : report / by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

  • Great Britain. National Audit Office.
Date:
1995
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Credit: Overseas Development Administration : health and population overseas aid : report / by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ee 138 Ae) eK and population activities are therefore a priority of the aid programme and the Administration liaise with recipient governments to assist in the development of appropriate health policies. The Administration’s objectives for health and population activities are to enable those most in need to gain access to essential health care, particularly reproductive health care, in ways which make efficient and effective use of available resources. Their priorities, developed over the last four years, are to achieve this by focusing on: e supporting health sector reform; e encouraging children by choice by helping to provide access to, and guidance on the use of, better reproductive health services; e developing the use of cost effective technologies to reduce the numbers suffering from malaria, tuberculosis and HIV; and e helping with better health care in emergency situations (not covered by this report). UK assistance takes the form of bilateral project aid to specific countries - sometimes co-financed with other donors and often partly financed by the recipient government - and contributions to multilateral aid organisations. The Administration also provide support for research and give grants to UK non-governmental organisations funded out of the joint funding scheme. The Administration’s geographical desks have responsibility for bilateral programmes, supported by professional advisers who may also act as project officers. The Chief Health and Population Adviser is responsible for supervising the quality of the professional input provided to programmes by health and population advisors and other specialists, and for ensuring the adequacy of other systems set up to provide health and population professional inputs to programmes funded by the Administration. His staff administer funds for, and undertake value for money checks on, multilateral agencies and general research projects. Over the last four years the Administration have assigned 14 professional health and population field managers to countries in which priority is given to health and population aid. Support for these managers is being developed through four resource centres which provide consultancy advice on all aspects of project design, implementation and impact. Over the past six years the Administration have spent'£911 million in the sector - including £393 million on emergency aid (Figure 1), allocating a growing proportion of the aid budget to these activities. In 1994-95 the Administration planned to spend about £100 million on health and population assistance, excluding emergency aid.