Partnership Objective and Principles. The overall objective of the partnership under this Compact is to contribute to the national development goal of attaining middle income status by 2020 through strengthening the country’s competitiveness for sustainable wealth creation, employment and inclusive growth by facilitating implementation of the second National Health Policy (2010/11 – 2019/20) and HSDP (2015/16 – 2019/20) through a sector-wide approach. This approach will address the health sector as a whole in planning and management, and in resource mobilization and allocation and aim at ensuring transparency and accountability between the Government and Health Sector Partners and to Ugandan citizens in the implementation of the HSDP. The HSDP goal is ‘To accelerate movement towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) with essential health and related services needed for promotion of a healthy and productive life’. UHC aims at ensuring that all people can use the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services they need, of sufficient quality to be effective, while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship. This definition of UHC embodies three related objectives: • equity in access to health services - those who need the services should get them, not only those who can pay for them; • that the quality of health services is good enough to improve the health of those receiving services; and • Financial-risk protection - ensuring that the cost of using care does not put people at risk of financial hardship. The principles guiding this Compact are: • Ownership and leadership by Government • Alignment of all partner programmes, activities and funding to one national plan and harmonized/integrated annual health plans; one national budget; and one monitoring framework to promote accountability at the national level. • Building and use of common management arrangements • Mobilisation of resources to finance the HSDP • Mutual accountability and transparency in use of resources The principles are consistent with national policies, with bilateral and multilateral agreements between the GoU and its Development Partners (DPs) and with international agreements ratified by Uganda including the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), Accra Agenda for Action (2008), the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (2011), Harmonization for Health in Africa (HHA) Action Framework, the Global International Health Par...
Partnership Objective and Principles. The overall objective of the partnership under this Compact is to contribute to the national development goal of accelerating economic growth and reducing poverty by facilitating implementation of the National Health Policy II (2010/11 – 2019/20) and HSSIP (2010/11 – 2014/15) through a sector-wide approach. This approach will address the health sector as a whole in planning and management, and in resource mobilization and allocation. The principles guiding this Compact are: • Ownership and leadership by government • Alignment of all partner programmes, activities and funding to one national plan (HSSIP) and harmonized annual health plan • Use of common management arrangements • Value for money; and, • One monitoring framework to promote accountability The principles are consistent with national policies, with bilateral and multilateral agreements between the Government of Uganda and its development partners and with international agreements ratified by Uganda including the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, Accra Agenda for Action, Harmonization for Health in Africa (HHA) Action Framework and the Global International Health Partnerships and related Initiatives (IHP+). Key definitions are outlined in Annex 1.
