WAHO MEETING 2020. Parliamentarians & networks of champions for adequate health financing. POCKET TV

Welcome to a joint meeting on health matters 2020 in Sierra Leone

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Parliamentarians and networks of champions for adequate health financing and demographic dividend

As the meeting commence at the Bintumani hotel Freetown

The overreaching objective is to access progress achieved by 15 ECOWAS countries chad and Mauritania towards increasing domestic health financing


With remarks from representative of DG WAHO,

Chairpersons of inter parliamentarian committee,

Chairperson of network champions for adequate health financing and demographic dividend

Keynote address of the vice president of parliament of Sierra Leone.


The meeting was well represented by honorable members of ECOWAS parliament,

Honorable minister of health Sierra Leone,

Honorable chairmen of the technical commissions of the national assemblies of ECOWAS countries Mauritania and Chad,

Chairperson network of advocacy champions for adequate health financing in West Africa,

Heads of diplomatic missions in Sierra Leone,
Representative of partners

WHO
USAID
World Bank
AFD
KFW
And the Media

The meeting observes the response of the house towards the presentation

At the meeting, different health sectors were touched during the presentations as
each country representative made their presentations to the team based on what the health situation in their country looks like and what has been done so far based on the available budgets allocations,


The background and justification on the budget allocated to health by West African government

It remains insufficient in spite of the persistent advocacy made for its increase


Different representative from different countries mentioned pocket expenditures during the meeting

According to the 2018 African Union scorecard on domestic financing for health,

None of the West African countries met the April 2001 pledge by the African Union countries to allocate at least 15% of their annual budget to improve the health sector and urge donor countries to scale up support

In July 2017 the speaker of the national assembly of the 15 ECOWAS countries Chad and Mauritania came together at a high-level advocacy meeting organized in ounadugu-burkina Faso jointly by the Parliament of Burkina Faso and the West African health organization WAHO and its partners,

More update coming soon.

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