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Our analysis found per capita aid disbursements for basic WSS to be associated with a reduction in OD prevalence in low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
Our study is a country-level analysis of the relationship between disbursements of official development assistance (ODA) per capita, improved water and sanitation coverage, and infant and child mortality since the establishment of the MDGs.
There was no observed relationship between aid disbursement and OD reduction when the analysis was conducted for all 34 sub-Saharan African countries.
The regression analysis supports this impression: each $10 increase in Global Fund disbursements per capita for malaria was associated with a 6.9%% subsequent greater annual decline in malaria-specific under-five mortality.
On top of these difficulties, delays in disbursement of funds and deficiencies in documentation, reporting, data analysis and structured supervision, non-participation of some DoH focal points in training, limited distribution of technical guidelines had all contributed to delays and to unsatisfactory performance in certain districts.
UNICEF has been able to bring learning and analysis from investigations of pilot activities, some key staff capacity audits, tracking of disbursements and impact of several child grant or other cash transfer payments systems, to the dialogue at National level.
Fourth, we varied the lag length between disbursements and possible start of mortality effects – 1 year in the default analysis – to 2 4 years (Additional file 1: S5).
When restricting the analysis to sub-Saharan Africa, the magnitude of the malaria-specific mortality declines following Global Fund disbursements is lower (3.6 %) and not statistically significant (p = 0.247).
In a subset analysis using 29 low-income countries (GDP in 2005 < US$ 1000), per capita aid disbursement (in US$) for basic drinking water supply and basic sanitation (hereafter, per capita aid disbursement for WSS) was significantly associated with reduction in OD prevalence between 2005 and 2010 whereas other six indices did not show significant association.
