Assessing and promoting more progress in health; the role of health as a tracer sector at the OECD

Abstract

This chapter aims to briefly review the origins and concept of aid effectiveness (1), the rationale for looking at health and operationalization of aid effectiveness in the health sector (2), the main lessons from the work done by the OECD Task Team on Health as a Tracer Sector (HATS) (3) and, finally, it formulates few ideas about possible follow-up to this work stream (4).