Fuente: Caribbean Journal
Belize's government has pledged $500000 for the programme, a number matched by the SM2015 Initiative, for the first 18 months of the project.
Belize’s Ministry of Health will be embarking in the next few weeks into a third phase of the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative. This third phase has been approved by a consortium consisting of the Belize Ministry of Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud and the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperacion from Spain-- under the Inter-American Development Bank IDB umbrella.
Fuente: CGD blog
All the hype (and criticism) over foreign aid programs that pay for results got us wondering: how are these programs being implemented and are they effective? In our new paper “Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything?” we looked at a subset of performance programs that pay governments in proportion to changes in development outcomes to […]
Fuente: LAC Forum
Estimating Mesoamerican and Dominican Republic Supply Chain Costs document prepared by the LAC Forum with the support of the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative. Download it now.
Marta Leticia Cartagena is 31 years old and lives in Tambla Lempira, a municipality located in one of the poorest regions of Honduras, very closet o the border with El Salvador. Marta has been working for four years as a promoter at the health center of this locality.
Every day, Paulina tours Belize to interview those responsible for the health teams. She compiles and analyzes hundreds of data dispersed in different sources and formats. How long does it take for a pregnant woman to get care when she arrives due to an urgency?; how many children of a region have anemia?; how many complications take place after delivery in a specific hospital?; how many women continue to deliver at home in a village?...
Fuente: Caribbean News Now!
SAN PEDRO, Belize -- On Thursday, Belize joined the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative (SM2015) -- a project that aims to reduce maternal and infant mortality among the poor, benefiting more than 30,000 young women and children.