This document discusses global health partnerships and solutions. It highlights SDG 17 which aims to enhance global partnerships for sustainable development. It also discusses the shifting landscape of global public health funding, with ODA as a percentage of GNI declining between 2000-2016. The document outlines several principles for managing health partnerships including balancing boldness and pragmatism, encouraging creative problem-solving, forging flexible partnerships, using technology to empower health workers, and getting innovation right. Examples of partnerships that have helped cut costs and expand healthcare access in various developing countries are provided.

1. Global health responses
and partnership solutions
October 2017
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2. SDG 17
Enhance the global partnership for
sustainable development, complemented by
multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize
and share knowledge, expertise, technology
and financial resources, to support the
achievement of the
sustainable development
goals in all countries, in
particular developing countries

3. The shifting landscape of global public healthOECDfunding
Net official development assistance (ODA)
Total, % of gross national income, 2000 – 2016
Source: OECD

5. Brokering global partnerships
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6. Creating partnerships with the Young Health Programme

7. Our principles for managing health partnerships

8. Balancing boldness and
pragmatism to manage
risk
Achieving
savings of 40%
for the
government
through public
procurement
reform in
Ukraine

9. Encouraging creative
problem-solving on the
ground
Cutting the cost
of the
distribution of
medical supplies
by a third in
Zambia

10. Forging partnerships
that can flex and adapt
Providing
healthcare
services across
80% of South
Sudan through
the Health
Pooled Fund

11. Using technology to
empower health
workers
Partnering with
Blue Square to
provide tablets
and training,
enabling health
workers to
record essential
data

12. Getting innovation right
Bringing solar
energy to over
25,000 people in
Kaduna State,
Nigeria