“Accountability and IHP+.” (English) Presentations to the Second Stakeholders Meeting on Implementing the Recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health, Ottawa. Session 3C: Country Reviews / Accountability Mechanisms (IHP+) 21-22 November 2011

1. Accountability and IHP

2. Overview
• Working on same platform, participation,
common M&E, mutual accountability
• Annual reviews - no standard way, but lessons
learnt on content, methods, participation, timing,
outcome, follow-up
• Score cards for mutual accountability through
self reporting by government and partners
• IHP time-limited initiative – 25 partners, 30
member countries, but tools and processes
adopted by others

3. Conditions for success – DRC example
• Political dialogue at national level
• National ownership, institutionalization
• Partner engagement at all levels
• Strong governance
• Strong technical and political leadership

4. Gaps and solutions
• Participation: involvement of parliaments (or
other democratic institutions), civil society,
professional organizations, private sector.
• How accountability in context of the health
sector links back to broader national
accountability
• Financial compacts should not be separate
from the IHP or IHP-like compacts
• Sustainability - beyond 2015

5. Suggestions
• IHP is useful to build on and process should expand to
more countries
• In countries with compacts, focus on MNCH should be
strongly incorporated. 11 indicators to be part of
national M&E framework
• Joint annual reviews – focus on MNCH is a welcome
(results and resources)
• Financial compacts (called for in COIA
recommendation 5) should be part of existing
compacts
• Annual reviews: Lessons learned and process options
should be taken forward by IHP + in collaboration with
PMNCH
• Institutionalizing national Countdown as a follow-up
or a complement to the annual reviews welcome