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Innovative Financing in Early Recovery: The Liberia Health Sector Pool Fund - Working Paper 288

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  • Jacob Hughes, Amanda Glassman, and Walter Gwenigale

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In post-conflict Liberia, the National Health Plan set out a process for transitioning from emergency to sustainability under government leadership. The Liberia Health Sector Pool Fund, which consists of DfID, Irish Aid, UNICEF, and UNHCR, was established to fund this plan and mitigate this transition by increasing institutional capacity, reducing the transaction costs associated with managing multiple donor projects, and fostering the leadership of the Liberian Health Ministry by allocating funds to national priorities. In this paper, we discuss the design of the health pool fund mechanism, assess its functioning, compare the pooled fund to other aid mechanisms used in Liberia, and look into the enabling conditions, opportunities, and challenges of the pool fund

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  • Jacob Hughes, Amanda Glassman, and Walter Gwenigale, 2012. "Innovative Financing in Early Recovery: The Liberia Health Sector Pool Fund - Working Paper 288," Working Papers 288, Center for Global Development.
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    1. Leader, Nicholas & Colenso, Peter, 2005. "Aid Instruments In Fragile States," PRDE Working Papers 12818, Department for International Development (DFID) (UK).
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    Keywords

    Liberia; national health plan; aid effectivenes;
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    JEL classification:

    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health

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