Thursday, June 5, 2008

Health and Fragile States Network Presentation Chaired by Julian Schweitzer Wednesday, June 11 at 12:30 - 2:00 pm in MC13-121 - Lunch served

* To register on LMS, please click here. *
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WB HNP anchor & WB Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group

invite you to attend a meetingchaired by Julian Schweitzer, Director
of HNP to launch the Network and to discuss the findings of two
recently commissioned studies on aid effectiveness in transition,
and health and state-building.

Executive summaries will be available at the event
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| The Health Sector | (Embedded image moved to file: |
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| Policy and Funding | |
| Gap: A Question of | |
| Aid Effectiveness | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
| Petra Vergeer, KIT | 12:30 - 2:00pm |
| | World Bank Main Complex |
| The paper focuses on | MC13 - 121 |
| the current aid | 1818 H Street, NW |
| architecture as it | Washington, DC |
| pertains to the | A lunch buffet will be served |
| health sector in | |
| post conflict | For non Bank staff, please RSVP to |
| countries. The aim | infoshopevents@worldbank.org |
| is to build up a | |
| stronger evidence | |
| base regarding real | |
| or potential | |
| transitional funding | |
| gaps, with special | |
| attention to the | |
| determinants of | |
| transitional funding | |
| for the health | |
| sector. | |
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| Health System | |
| Reconstruction and | |
| State-building | |
| Jack Eldon, HLSP | |
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| This paper examines | |
| whether rebuilding | |
| health systems | |
| strengthens the | |
| social contract | |
| between state and | |
| society and | |
| contributes to | |
| state-building. It | |
| explores whether | |
| health service | |
| delivery signals the | |
| will and capacity of | |
| the state to act on | |
| behalf of citizens | |
| in a responsive and | |
| accountable manner, | |
| and whether the | |
| planning, management | |
| and delivery of | |
| health services | |
| contributes to | |
| capacity development | |
| beyond the health | |
| sector. | |
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PANELISTS
Jack Eldon
Lead Specialist in Governance, HLSP, London
Mr. Eldon is a specialist in institutional development with over 20
years experience in Africa, South Asia and East Asia, working mainly
on decentralised governance, devolved service delivery and local
government capacity development. He joined HLSP London in October
2006 as a Lead Specialist in Governance, focusing on the political
and institutional aspects of health systems development. Before
joining HLSP, Mr Eldon?s experience included working as a Senior
Governance and Institutional Development Specialist with the British
Council for four years, and prior to that, working for 13 years in
different parts of Africa on a wide range of institutional
development projects funded mainly by DFID.

Olga Bornemisza
Research Fellow, Conflict and Health Program, Health Policy Unit at
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Ms. Bornemisza joined the School in 2001. Research interests include
the links between health and the securitization of aid, contracting
mechanisms to deliver a basic package of health services, health
financing and user fees in conflict zones, and the reform of
humanitarian aid. She has also done work on inter-agency
evaluations in the humanitarian health sector, and reform of the
Serbian health system. Before joining LSHTM, she lived in Malawi and
Kenya, where she worked on the design, monitoring and evaluation of
development programs.

Petra Vergeer
Adviser on health systems development, KIT Development Policy and
Practice, Amsterdam
For almost ten years, Ms. Vergeer has worked in public health in
various countries, especially in fragile states, of Africa, Asia,
Eastern Europe and the Pacific. From 2004 ? 2006 she worked as
adviser and as team leader on the Institutional Strengthening
Project for the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health. She also has
extensive experience at the operational level, carrying out
situation analyses and health needs assessments; organizing
programme activities in primary health care and public health; and
developing strategies for improving access, quality and the
monitoring and evaluation of health services.

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