Financial Flows
Monitoring financial resource flows for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health is a central part of the Countdown — determining the funding gap between resources currently available and the actual investments required to reach national and MDG targets, and holding governments and the international community to account for investing adequately in the health of women and children. Policy-makers need financial information to make informed decisions on how to best allocate resources among competing needs, set priorities, and ensure sustainable funding for programs. The information should also be used to hold governments and their development partners accountable and ensure that adequate and sustainable funding is provided for RMNCH. Countdown’s Health Financing Working Group works to track and analyze these financial flows.
On this page, Countdown presents data and analysis relating to financial flows for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health. The Finance Working Group’s research is summarized in the Countdown Reports, and has been presented in more detail in the following articles published in The Lancet:
- Hsu J, Pitt C, Greco G, Berman P, Mills A, Countdown to 2015: changes in official development assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health in 2009–10, and assessment of progress since 2003. Lancet 2012, 21 September 2012. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61415-9)
. (PDF) - Pitt C, Greco G, Powell-Jackson T, Mills A, Countdown to 2015: assessment of official development assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health, 2003—08. Lancet 2010. 376 (9751): 1485-1496. (PDF)
- Greco G, Powell-Jackson T, Borghi J, Mills A, Countdown to 2015: assessment of donor assistance to maternal, newborn and child health between 2003 and 2006. Lancet2008. 371 (9620): 1268-1275. (PDF)
- Powell-Jackson T, Borghi J, Mueller D, Patouillard E, Mills A, Countdown to 2015: tracking donor assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health. Lancet 2006. 368 (9541): 1077-1087. (PDF)
In addition, Countdown in September 2012 published a Briefing Note summarizing the most recent findings on international and domestic financial flows for maternal, newborn, and child health.