Concord Times (Freetown)
Juliana Boston-Clarke
22 August 2008
Freetown — Senior advisor to the ministerial leadership initiative for global health, Dr. Deinca Mutumbuka has congratulated the country for being one of the five countries chosen from over 70 nominees for health financing and leadership development.
Other countries include Nepal, Senegal, Mali and Ethiopia.
During a meeting at the ministry of health and sanitation he said the initiative sought to strengthen the leadership capacity of ministers of health and their senior staff to promote pro-poor health financing reforms, harmonize and align donor funds for health and to prioritize women's health.
Dr Mutumbuka said initiative was poised to support ministerial teams through peer learning opportunities, tailor intensive technical assistance and practical business-style cases of ministerial led best practices.
He observed that unless a broad consensus in the global health community is achieved by strengthening leadership and human resource capacity, the millennium development goals would be farfetched.
Programme officer health financing and leadership Loren Becker said the principles of the initiative was to respect the alignment to the Paris declaration, the option for countries to choose their own areas of focus and encourage countries to look for technical resources locally, regionally and globally.
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