Mali global health initiative strategy

Section II provides an overview of the government"s present health priorities, while Annex 1 provides an overview of the health situation in Mali, and Annex 2 provides an overview of the USG health program. It is important to understand that the current national development plan and health sector strategy end in 2011. Necessary strategic revisions of both will begin in January 2011. This will allow the USG under GHI-Plus to play a substantive role in shaping these new strategies and plans. Section III describes how the USG will manage the GHI and work with the Government of Mali, as well as among and between health team partners and the Ambassador, and Annex 3 provides additional information of interagency collaborative activities. Section IV provides specific details on the three proposed priority areas of GHI-Plus innovation that address critical points of program and policy development in Mali. These three priority areas of innovation are seen as best use of the resources and leverage offered by GHI-Plus. These priorities will provide both added value and important learning opportunities to Mali"s broader health sector programming and add to the global evidence-base for best development practices. A list of illustrative indicators for these priorities in included in Annex 4. Section V illustrates how the USG program is aligns with the GHI principles, Section VI provides an overview of the monitoring and evaluation, and Section VII outlines some of the key challenges challenges for the implementation of the strategy. The GHI program matrix (Annex 5) and the GHI results framework (Annex 6) lay out the broad program approaches planned for 2010-2014. (Author abstract)