PHM-Exch> G8 Accountability Report

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Slim SLAMA Slim.Slama at hcuge.ch

 G8 countries decided to set up a senior level working group on
accountability to share best practices for accountability and develop,
in cooperation with relevant international organizations, a
comprehensive and consistent methodological approach for a G8
Accountability Framework, with a particular attention to results.

Here is a link to the preliminary accountability report:

http://www.g8italia2009.it/static/G8_Allegato/G8_Preliminary_Accountability_Report_8.7.09,0.pdf

For Global Health (165p.):
http://www.g8italia2009.it/static/G8_Allegato/G8_Health_Experts_Report_and_Accountability,0.pdf


Consider the concluding remarks made by Richard Horton and Rhona Mc
Donald, editors of the Lancet, in 2008 article about the G8 framework of
action for Global health:

"One of the biggest obstacles to progress is the G8 itself. In 2008, it
seems preposterous and unjust to allow the leaders
of eight countries that command 65% of the Gross World Product and
represent only 13% of the world’s population to assume the mantle of
governance about issues that concern the entire world’s economy,
environment, health, and security. The dreadful failure of the 2005 G8
Summit in Gleneagles, despite the promises of both Tony Blair and Gordon
Brown, and
other G8 leaders, to come anywhere near tackling the root causes of
poverty suggests that the allocation of political power to a
self-appointed few does not benefit the voiceless many.
Although there is much to support in the G8 Toyako Framework for Action
on Global Health, including the fact that it has been written by a
respected group of international health experts, delivery will demand a
new era of partnership and power sharing with countries. There is no
sign yet that any nation is willing to lead such a revisioning of
purpose for the world’s institutions. Democracy for health should be the
rally cry for the G8. But power seems too sweet a taste to share."
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