The GAVI Alliance Board “agreed to pursue the implementation of a common Health System Funding Platform to make better use of new and existing funds for health systems and to leverage additional funding.” This builds on announcements made at the high level Task Force on Innovative Financing and Health, in September 2009, to commit an additional US$900 million for Health Systems Strengthening. This harmonised platform “will help countries access money more simply and spend it more effectively.”

GAVI noted that the performance and results-based platform, which is being developed together with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the World Bank with facilitation from the World Health Organization (WHO), “aims to better deliver the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by strengthening health systems and removing bottlenecks in the delivery of health services in the world’s poorest countries.”

http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/statements/GAVI_statement_HSF_Platform_20_04_2010.php