Monitoring Official Development Assistance to the Health Sector in the Republic of Moldova
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MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA MONITORING OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO THE HEALTH SECTOR IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 2012 REPORT MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA MONITORING OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO THE HEALTH SECTOR IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 2012 REPORT Keywords Health Management and Planning Health policy Public health administration Financing, Health Health systems plans - organization and administration Health services International cooperation Republic of Moldova Address requests about publications of the WHO Regional Office for Europe to: Publications WHO Regional Office for Europe UN City, Marmorvej 51 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Alternatively, complete an online request form for documentation, health information, or for permission to quote or translate, on the Regional Office web site (http://www.euro.who.int/pubrequest). © World Health Organization 2013 All rights reserved. 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MONITORING OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ii TO THE HEALTH SECTOR IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA – 2012 REPORT CONTENTS List of figures and tables................................................................................................................................................. iv Abbreviations .................................................................................................................................................................... v Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................................................... vi Foreword ............................................................................................................................................................................. vii 1. Country context ............................................................................................................................................................ 1 2. Background .................................................................................................................................................................... 3 3. Methodology ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 3.1. Study design ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 3.2. Data collection ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 3.3. Data analysis ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 4. Limitations ..................................................................................................................................................................... 9 5. Results ............................................................................................................................................................................. 10 5.1. Development partners ....................................................................................................................................... 10 5.2. Geographical coverage ...................................................................................................................................... 12 5.3. Types of funding, health sector and priority programme areas ............................................................. 14 5.4. Alignment with national frameworks ............................................................................................................ 16 5.5. Financial management systems ...................................................................................................................... 18 5.6. MTBF ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18 5.7. Aid predictability ................................................................................................................................................. 20 5.8. Development partner coordination and complementarity ..................................................................... 24 6. Findings........................................................................................................................................................................... 26 6.1. Overall observations ........................................................................................................................................... 26 6.2. Comparing the results with the Paris Declaration indicators .................................................................. 27 6.3. The Republic of Moldova compared with benchmark countries ........................................................... 28 7. Conclusions .................................................................................................................................................................... 31 References .......................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Annex 1. 2012 questionnaire ......................................................................................................................................... 36 Annex 2. Glossary ............................................................................................................................................................. 46 Annex 3. Paris Declaration indicators of progress ................................................................................................... 52 Annex 4. Completed questionnaires ........................................................................................................................... 54 MONITORING OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO THE HEALTH SECTOR IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA – 2012 REPORT iii List of figures and tables Fig. 1. Overall ODA disbursed by development partner and type of disbursement, 2012 ............................... 11 Fig. 2. Grants and soft loans, 2011 and 2012 .................................................................................................................. 11 Fig. 3. Project-based aid and SBS, 2011 and 2012 ......................................................................................................... 12 Fig. 4. Development partners by district, 2012.............................................................................................................. 13 Fig. 5. Total disbursements by funding category, 2012 ............................................................................................... 14 Fig. 6. Investment disbursements by component, 2011 and 2012 .......................................................................... 14 Fig. 7. Technical assistance disbursements by component, 2011 and 2012 .......................................................... 15 Fig. 8. Disbursements on health system functions, 2011 and 2012 ......................................................................... 15 Fig. 9. Disbursements on health services delivery components, 2011 and 2012 ................................................ 16 Fig. 10. Disbursements on health priority programme areas, 2012 ......................................................................... 16 Fig. 11. Disbursements using national financial procedures, 2011 and 2012 ....................................................... 18 Fig. 12. Projects concluding by year, 2012–2015 .........................................................................................................