Fuente: Stanford Social Innovation Review Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

Fuente: The Guardian Malaria kills 1.2 million people every year, a finding that has implications for global efforts to eliminate the disease

Fuente: LoveFM With Belize considered a leader in Performance Based Financing, both the Ministry of Health and the SM2015 initiative will join efforts to reduce equity gaps to meet the millennium development goals in the Mesoamerican region.

Fuente: Channel 7 Daily News

Thirty thousand young Belizean women and children are expected to benefit from the Salud Mesoamerica 2015 initiative, a project that aims to reduce maternal and infant mortality among the poor. It's an innovative public and private partnership that seeks to reduce health equity gaps in Mesoamerica among the poorest populations.

Fuente: Caribseek News SAN PEDRO (IDB) - Today Belize joined the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative (SM2015) for a project that aims to reduce maternal and infant mortality among the poor, benefiting more than 30,000 young women and children.

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.

Fuente: NPR Scientists can spend years working on problems that at first may seem esoteric and rather pointless.

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.