Post 00898e : Global Initiatives Funding

POST 00898E : GLOBAL INITIATIVES FUNDING 14 March 2006 ________________________________________________________ This message is cross-posted from UNICEF/ESARO's Technical Updates. Sincere thanks to Bob Davis and Evelyn Chege. The Measles Partners meeting took place last 14-15 February in Washington, DC. Those interested in a good update of the measles situation should visit the following page and review interesting presentations on various aspects made at the meeting. http://www.measlesinitiative.org/meeting2006/agenda.asp _____________________________ It is quite remarkable that, with smallpox eradication, polio eradication and measles mortality reduction, the trend of multi-year agency funding starts from a low initial level, peaks in the middle years of the initiative, and tails off towards the end, the period when the unit costs of breaking transmission chains tend to rise. Veterans of both smallpox eradication and polio eradication know at first hand the extreme reluctance of funders to continue financing in the final years of these initiatives, when funders shift priorities, prematurely. The Measles Partnership (third slide) is expanding in the near future from sub-Saharan Africa, with 600 million persons, to South Asia, with populations more than twice that size. The MP funding projections for the rest of the decade show no doubling; quite the contrary. Will the Measles Partnership see the same dwindling of funding as befell SEP and PEI before it? The Measles Partnership, recently rich in post-tsunami funding unlikely to recur, is basking in plaudits today. Where will it be, on present trends, in five years, if funding trends and mortality trends cross each other on the graph? In retrospect, the GAVI Board decision of 2005, cutting the IFFIm measles funding proposals by more than half, may come back to haunt the Board. With false economies, accelerated disease control decelerates, however sound its technical basis. (See attached file: FUNDING BELL CURVES.PPT, a short 3-slides presentation) Good reading, Bob PS Thanks to Evelyn Chege and Andrea Gay for producing the first and third slides. The second is from the homepage of the Polio Eradication Initiative. ______________________________________________________________________________ Visit the TECHNET21 Website at http://www.technet21.org You will find instructions to subscribe, a direct access to archives, links to reference documents and other features. ______________________________________________________________________________ To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message to : mailto:[email protected] Leave the subject area BLANK In the message body, write unsubscribe TECHNET21E ______________________________________________________________________________ The World Health Organization and UNICEF support TechNet21. The TechNet21 e-Forum is a communication/information tool for generation of ideas on how to improve immunization services. It is moderated by Claude Letarte and is hosted in cooperation with the Centre de internationale en sant, Canada (http://www.ccisd.org) ______________________________________________________________________________ ##text##