Using knowledge sharing to build and reinforce capacity for health MDGs in Africa
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially those directly related to health is a major challenge for most African countries. There is evidence that inequities and unfair policies and programs in health are serious fetters on efforts to achieve the targets of the health related MDGs. Mainstreaming of health equity in the development agenda of African countries has been proposed by some as the solution to health inequities and to poor health outcomes in Africa. To explore the policy implications of this argument, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) undertook a study on Mainstreaming health equity in the development agenda of African countries. The study identified major sources of inequities in health in a subset of Africa countries and proposed a set of policy actions that countries could take to mainstream health equity in their development agenda. This training workshop and ad hoc expert group meeting was conducted under the auspices of the African Learning Group on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (the PRSP-Learning Group or PRSP-LG). Established in 2001 by ECA at the urging of member States and the Bretton Woods institutions, the Learning Group (LG) served as a regional forum for peer learning and knowledge sharing on the design and implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) which many African countries had to prepare as a requisite foe debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. In 2006, the Cairo African Plenary on Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Millennium Development Goals expanded the remit of the LG to include learning and knowledge sharing on the MDGs. The LG now operates as the African Learning Group on Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Millennium Development Goals (PRS/MDGs-LG).
| Format: | Reports biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2008-03
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/25959 |
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