Ministry of health to undertake comprehensive review [Archives:2005/905/Local News]

SANA'A, 21 Dec. 2005 – Ministry of Public Health and Population signed a statement on Tuesday 20th of December, in which it confirms its commitment to intensify its relationship with its national and international partners in order to increase aid effectiveness and harmonization of donor inputs. The statement was also signed by representatives of bilateral and multilateral development partners in Yemen, namely the ambassadors and charge daffier of Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom, The Federal Republic of Germany, as well as representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, UNFPA, and the World Bank. In addition to their commitment to develop mechanisms for more effective dialogue and cooperation between the Ministry of Health and national and international development partners, the signatories were also committed to jointly undertake within the year 2006 a comprehensive health sector review. This includes a thorough review of health development priorities, existing health policies, institutional arrangements, and experiences of development cooperation in the health sector; which will lead to preparation of an updated health sector strategy. According to the statement, the signatories will work towards a more formal partnership declaration (such as a code of conduct) for further alignment and harmonization in the health sector, with the delivering of the developmental inputs in a complementary manner as a long-term goal.

In recent years, policy making in the health sector was led by the overarching objectives of the national Health Sector Reform Strategy of 1998 (to improve access, equity, quality, efficiency and financial sustainability of service provision). Efforts were made to coordinate the reform in the Ministry of Health with the wider reform agenda of the Government, like Civil Service Modernization and decentralization of Government administration. Furthermore, since the beginning of the health sector reform in 1998, repeated efforts were made to coordinate donors support to the health sector.
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