USAID Supports Global Financing Facility for Every Woman Every Child
USAID Bureau for Global Health sent this bulletin at 07/13/2015 10:00 AM EDT
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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is pleased to be part of the Global Financing Facility for Every Woman Every Child (GFF), launched
on the sidelines of the Financing for Development conference, held July 13–16 in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
USAID is committing $50 million to the GFF
through multi-year funding mechanisms, subject to Congressional approval. This funding will support the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania to scale up national
strategies and efforts to end preventable child and maternal deaths.
Ending
preventable child and maternal deaths, a core goal for USAID,
will require more than resources. It will also require a new model of
development and innovative financing solutions. The GFF is a new financing
approach among donors and host countries to accelerate efforts to end
preventable newborn, child, adolescent and maternal deaths and improve the
health and the quality of life of women, adolescents and children. It will
focus on narrowing the financing gap by incentivizing countries to allocate a
higher proportion of funding from the World Bank’s International Development
Assistance concessional loans to maternal and child health spending. Countries will also be assisted to develop
strategies for sustainable financing and domestic resource mobilization.
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