Likewise, it would be equally important for the federal government to harmonise donor sector programmes and investments in each province, which by virtue of recent reforms have their own provincial health sector strategies.
Drugs for diseases classed as 'priority endemic diseases' are almost entirely supplied by the donor sector, particularly the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria [ 30], and largely sourced from Indian and Chinese firms.
With no central government-allocated budget to implement the maternal fee exemption directive, the MOH relied on donor health sector budget support for financial commitment.
The lack of harmonization of methods and standards, and a donor-driven sector-specific focus does not give stakeholders policy makers the full range of information on which to act.
They also held meetings with UNICEF Regional Director Per Engebak, members of the United Nations country team in Kenya, donors, private-sector partners and representatives of local non-governmental organizations.
"As Namibia is working to put nutrition at the heart of their development policies, it offers an opportune environment for collaboration and aligning support from international donors, private sector, civil society movements and even more so from communities," said Micaela Marques De Sousa, UNICEF Representative.
The instruments of coordination were essentially a formalisation of attempts by donors to coordinate activities within the sector amongst themselves: geographical zoning, sub-sector specialisation, donor consortia, project co-financing, sector aid, harmonisation of procedures, ear-marked budgetary support, donor agency reform and inter-agency intelligence gathering [ 3, 9].
While the scale of new vertical HIV-specific funding is significantly larger than most other health sector donor funding in many African countries, its impact on existing public sector systems and workforce has been understudied [ 11].
It has already donated $2.5m£1.5m5m) and 150,000 mattresses and quilts for the UNHCR relief efforts in Iraq, making it the agency's largest private sector donor.
Money had to be begged from the private sector, donor countries and the EU (conversations in the building still begin with the caveat "because Unesco has no money"), but somehow the organisation came through.
