Table of Contents

Common Themes: Origins and diversity of Health Partnerships; Negotiating with New Partners to Increase the Effectiveness and Volume of Aid: The Role of Global Funds; Limitations of Partnerships: Taking the Agenda Forward; Country Health Systems and Global Health Partnerships: What are the Challenges, How to Think about Them, and What to do Differently; Managing for Results: A "Common Currency" to Coordinate Health Development; Managing Health Partnerships at Country Level; Integrating New Partnerships at Country Level: Global Health Programs: Negotiating Aid Effectiveness into New Partnerships; Malaria: Partnerships in Malaria Control; Innovative Approaches to Financing Development: The GAVI Alliance; PEPFAR: A Results-Driven Approach to International HIV Support; Private Foundations: Their Role in Financing and Health Governance; Private Sector: New Ways of Doing Business; Civil Society Partners: Claiming Spaces for Civil Society in Global Health; Integrating New Partnerships at Global Level: Governance and Sustainable Financing in Southern Africa: Swaziland, A Case Study; Negotiating Aid Reform in Vietnam: Unpacking "Country" Ownership; Ethiopia: Aligning Stakeholders Behind National Health Plans; India: Scaling HIV Prevention Through Partnerships - The Avahan Experience; Russia: Key Characteristics of the NGO AIDS Response: Assertive Leadership, Professional Reputation, and Broad Partnerships; State Fragility: Working with Partners to Achieve Health Results in African Countries; Health Communities: Social Capital and Effective Partnerships - Building on Community Responses.

Reviews

Partnerships are fashionable, but the conditions that bring about their success or failure are elusive. Daniel Low - Beer has brought together experts from public health, civil society, and policymaking to investigate how partnerships work, what they have delivered, and what lessons one can learn from their experiences. -- Richard Horton "Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet"

This book captures the innovative and challenging period of health partnerships since 2000 and in the process illuminates some of the key issues in the debate on aid effectiveness and aid architecture today. The range and quality of contributors provide compelling material on the diversity of actors and instruments now in play in international development efforts in the field of health, with a good balance between overarching issues and global partnerships, and the negotiation of diversity in real country contexts. -- Richard Carey "Former Director for Development Co-operation, OECD-DAC"

This volume is a highly valuable contribution to the current discourse on global health and development aid effectiveness. It takes stock of lessons learned by different countries and innovative partnership strategies. I -- TedrosGhebreyesus "Minister of Health, Ethiopia"