Ownership in Name, But not Necessarily in Action; Comment on “It’s About the Idea Hitting the Bull’s Eye”: How Aid Effectiveness Can Catalyse the Scale-up of Health Innovations”

Document Type : Commentary

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MRC Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Abstract

A recently-published paper by Wickremasinghe et al assesses the scalability of pilot projects in three countries using the aid effectiveness agenda as an analytical framework. The authors report uneven progress and recommend applying aid effectiveness principles to improve the scalability of projects. This commentary focuses on one key principle of aid effectiveness – country ownership; it describes difficulties in defining and achieving it, and provides practical steps donors and recipient governments can take to move forward towards country ownership.

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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 7, Issue 11
November 2018
Pages 1053-1055

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  • Receive Date: 15 June 2018
  • Revise Date: 23 July 2018
  • Accept Date: 24 July 2018
  • First Publish Date: 01 November 2018

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