POST 00908E : GLOBAL INITIATIVES FUNDING
Follow-up on Posts 00898E and 00903E
6 April 2006
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Auguste Ambendet (mailto:
[email protected]) from WHO/AFRO Regional
Office in Zimbabwe comments on those of Anil Varshney
(mailto:
[email protected]) from India who comments further.
Finally, I risk a very personal point of view at the bottom.
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Hello! Dr Anil Varshney,
I totally agree with your comments. I believe there should be great
efforts of mobilisation of funds at the local level. Large local companies
need to be informed and associated in financing such initiatives.
Generally, companies enquire from countries in which priority areas, at
social level, they might allocate funds, but unfortunately, countries
rarely opt for financing such initiatives.
I had a wonderful experience with UNICEF/Congo Brazzaville between 2000
and 2002; we managed to mobilise funds locally, from petrol companies
operating in the country and others (airline companies) and we used these
funds to organise polio and measles campaigns.
This is why I have always insisted, that there should be mobilisation of
funds at the local level.
Thank you all,
Auguste Ambendet
Conseiller de vaccination
VPD/DDC-WHO/AFRO
Harare/Zimbabwe
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Ambendet has done a remarkable job and I feel this should be replicated.I
am willing to help.
But this must be done under UN - WHO / UNICEF banner, which means
permission if any from national Government and clearances should be taken.
The funds collected should than be utilized in the programme. All donors
must be kept informed regularly.
I am very sure that in a country like India huge funds can be collected,
eg Rs 1 per mobile phone per month would turn into millions of Rs every
month, and people would not mind that they spend Rs 6 to 10 per sms for
various options.
My suggestion is that this mode of fund collection should be explored and
attempted.
Regards ,
Anil Varshney
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A personal point of view:
Shouldn’t we thread with caution here in this area, to ensure the
independance of national or international public bodies? States have had
so many problems with independance from, for example religion in the past,
and many still have.
Is it of no significance that the President of a large multinational
corporation be guest speaker at the World Health Assembly? When I see that
it is prohibited supported by written official memorandum, to use any
software in the UN system that is not of this particular corporation, I
really wonder. Or when I see a National Committee associate UNICEF name to
a trademark to sell an item for a return, I itch. Isn’t there any
implications also with respects to certain aspects of the recent
discussion about vaccine prices?
In any event I’d hate to see vaccination campaigns with the Macdonald or
Toyota or Coca-Cola or any other logo for that matter, floating around!
Why countries could not manage effectively a taxation of luxury goods
system, for example? Why should it come directly from the industry? Is it
for the same reasons that most if not all countries cannot manage a health
system without huge deficits while private health insurance companies are
making such profits!
I can well imagine a day (am I being alarmist?) when powerful coalitions
of giant corporations may take control. What will we do then?
The moderator
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