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The Sector Network

Where do we stand ?

Bernd

Appelt

| South AfricaSlide2

Welcome

This is the 1st regional conference of the sector network health and social protection Africa, MENA and LAC

We are meeting to discuss as far as I am concerned the most important and most exciting topic in the present debate of the future of development cooperation Quality of Growth – amongst all the fanfares celebrating economic growth of the last decades it is often forgotten that the lives of ordinary people are not changing. On the contrary inequalities and inequities are increasing between states and within societies. The Green Party in Germany brought it down to a very easy and straight forward phrase – YOU CAN‘T EAT GDP.

We as technical experts in health and social protection measure the inequalities and inequities on a daily basis – we have all the information at our finger tips. We know technically what needs to be done to address them – but often we fail to communicate our knowledge and insight to influence the political-economical agenda. Investments in health, social protection and education are often seen as charity and not as investments into the future and the portfolio is often seen to narrowly as treating the diseased, helping the poor and teaching basic skills. Slide3

I hope that this conference will contribute to the ongoing debate how to measure progress of society. The most advanced society in this regards is the tiny, small Buddhist mountain kingdom of Bhutan which uses neither economic nor social development indicators to measure societal progress but HAPPINESS. If we are to choose between growth in GDP and growth in happiness - I think the result will be obvious.

This a regional conference bringing together GIZ colleagues and partners from …. It needs to be emphasized that this is not a technical conference were you will be loaded with lectures but were networking, joined learning and exchange shall be at the centre stage.

We have looked at the evaluation forms and comments from our last meeting in

Jo‘burg where in Feb 2012 the topic was -Optimizing Capacity Development Results in Health and Social Protection by Combining our Instruments - and hope that we have taken some lessons from there. I assume you have read the programme and Jost Wagner will therefore take you through the programme focusing a little more on explaining the methodology how this shall be achieved.Slide4

Evaluation of SN

assembly

in Johannesburg 2012

Overall satisfactionSlide5
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Very tight

programme

, almost no time to reflect in between

Participants need to be reminded to speak clear/ slowly and not using abbreviations

For next meeting a translator is needed for francophone colleagues

Fieldtrip would be good and time for spontaneous, bilateral meetingsSlide7

Over to you

JostSlide8

29

projects

More than 200 members working in 20 countries from

all staff categories of GIZ 3 active

working groups Quality Management in Health - Irene Omogi & Sabine

Ablefoni

Linking SRHR and HIV -

Ramona Wong-

Grünwald

& Kristina

Kloss

Private Sector Engagement in Health and Social Protection -

Holger

Till

3 working groups closed

Business Development and Innovation –

completed its task – analysis and report available

Human Rights in Health and Social Protection -

closed due to the lack of active members

SwAps

and Health systems -

closed, due to lack of active members

1 working group wants to reconstitute itself during this conference

Social Health Protection and Health Financing -

Kai

Strähler

-Pohl

Communication

within the SN - from a consultant driven process to virtual exchange platforms of Community of PractitionersSlide9

The new Virtual Community of Practice on Global Campus 21

So far unfortunately not yet

functinal

.We are planning to inaugurate the CoP with a webinar on HCD measures in the health and social protection sector in July this year - Ms BlumenthalSlide10

Steering Group 2013- 2014Slide11

Guidelines for Sector

Networks

Following the audit of the expenditure on Sector Networks the Office of the Federal Accountant General (Bundesrechnungshof- BRH) in 2012/13 the guidelines needed to be revised to address the following issues

To ensure that the results of sector networks contribute to an improvement in quality of our bilateral projects in partner countries To establish binding annual upper cost limit for each SNTo improve the financial management and monitoring of SNs including expenses on WG and conferences Slide12

Looking

forward to

To a successful regional conference

with a challenging topic and programme which guides the future direction of our health and social protection portfolio Further strengthening the network to foster exchange and collaboration between members of the network through an appropriate mix of real and virtual exchange forums and newsletters

Documentation of success stories and impacts of networks on the quality of our ongoing work and our business developments

Expand the

cooperation

with the Sector Network

HeSPAEE

and other Sector Networks – through WG exchanges, the joint newsletter CONNECT and the new

CoP

on global campus 21 and …Slide13

Bernd.appelt@giz.de

THANK YOU!