Executive Director' Report to the 2nd
AfHEA General Assembly
Dr Chris Atim
Executive Director, AfHEA
Saly, Senegal
March 2011
Outline
2011 Conference structures
2nd Conference Management framework
AfHEA
Board
Executive
Director
Scientific
Committee
Executive
Committee
AfHEA Conference
Planning Committee
Local Planning
Committee
Conference Management – Oversight
Board of Trustees
Responsibility:
 Overall oversight
Membership:
 Dr Eva das Dores Pascoal, WHO Country Health Economist, Mozambique - Chairperson
 Prof Diane McIntyre, University of Cape Town, South Africa
 Dr Miloud Kaddar, Health economist, WHO-IVB, Geneva
 Prof Kodjo Evlo, Head of Department of Economics, University of Lome, Togo
 Dr Germano Mwabu, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya (now at Havard)
 Dr Joses Kirigia, WHO Health Financing Advisor, Brazzaville, Congo
 Mr Allie Kibwika-Muyinda, ECSA Health Community
 Dr Lamine Farba Sall, WHO HEC, Coordinator of Senegal HE network
 Mr Ezoua Kodjo Niamke, President of Ivorian Health Economists Network
 Dr Charlotte Zikusooka, Health economist, Uganda
 Chris Atim, Executive Director
Conference Management - scientific
Scientific Committee:
Responsibility :

Reviewed and accepted abstracts, recommended poster presentations, ensured
quality presentations.
Membership:
 Prof Di McIntyre, University of Cape Town, Chairperson
 Prof Lucy Gilson, University of Cape Town
 Dr Francois Diop, Senior Health Economist, Abt Associates, Senegal
 Dr Catherine Goodman, of the London School of Hygiene & Trop. Medicine and the Kenya Medical Research
Institute
 Dr Miloud Kaddar, Senior Health Economist, WHO-Geneva
 Dr Charlotte M. Zikusooka, Health economist, Uganda
 Dr Charles Hongoro, Senior Health Economist, Aurum Institute of Health Research, South Africa
 Dr Eva Pascoal, WHO-Mozambique
 Dr Moustapha Thiam, Professor at CESAG Health Economics Institute, Senegal
 Dr Miloud Kaddar, WHO-IVB, Geneva
 Dr Hyacinth Ichoku, Health economist and lecturer, Nigeria
 Dr Moses Aikins, School of Public Health, Ghana
 Dr Eyob Zere, WHO, Malawi
Other conference committees 1
AfHEA Conference Planning Committee (CPC)
Responsible for overseeing the day to day preparations,
including coordination, logistics and financial
administration.
Membership:
 Chris Atim, Senegal
 Ms Marina Yo, Cote d’Ivoire
 Mr Pascal Ndiaye, Senegal
 Mr Divine Ikenwilo, Scotland
 Mr Arthur Rutaro, Uganda
 Dr Alice Soumare, Burkina Faso
 Chinwe Ogbonna, Nigeria
 Djesika Amendah, Kenya
 Morris De Kouame, Senegal
Other conference committees -2
Local Planning Committee, (LPC) Senegal
Responsibility:
 Day to day operations toward the hosting of the conference
particularly ensuring local preparation and liaisons
Membership
 Ndeye Maguette Gueye Ndiaye
 Farba Lamine Sall
 Daouda Mbengue
Conference Partners
 Direct funding
Rockefeller Foundation
World Bank
IDRC
HEPNET
UNAIDS
UNFPA
P4H
WHO
 Conference co-hosts:
The Ministry of Health and Prevention, Senegal
CESAG Health Institute
Progress Report – key highlights
Key achievements – management
issues
 Operationalization of organs – Board of Trustees,
Executive Committee and Sub-regional advisers.
 AfHEA became registered in Africa, giving it legal footing
and license to operate, in addition to previous UK license
 Office accommodation secured in Ghana Health Service
with engagement of short-term consultant administrators
 AfHEA web site active esp for conference management
[www.afhea.org] .
Key achievements – Technical
support services
 Operational guidelines for Technical Working Groups
 AfHEA online forum for information sharing, discussions,
dissemination of technical resource materials, job and
research announcements, etc
 Informed AU Ministers of Health meeting, AU Summit,
conferences on MNCH, health sector governance and
leadership, WAHO, African Parliamentarians network, etc
 Served as Technical partners to workshops - WB African
Flagship course on health financing and HHA partners
“Financial access for the poor”
Key achievements – Strategic
operations
 Expanded AfHEA’s partnership base
 Conducted landscape assessment by Accenture
Development Partners
 Revised Strategic Plan informed by assessments – 3
main programme areas
 Workplan and Communication packages as codeliverables
 Explored new frontiers and represented the interest of
African Health Economists – IHEA, WAHEN, HEPNet,
GHSR Symposium, etc
Key challenges
 Multi-year funding still under discussion with
partners
 Technical Working Groups not operationalised
 Administrative challenges in maintaining a fully
functional office in Accra, Ghana
Issue of value for money too
 Challenge of irregular payment of membership
dues
Perspectives for next few years ahead
 Focus: Fully operationalize business plan
 Concentrate on providing support to regional, sub-regional and country levels;
 Convene series of Policy related workshops and dialogues for top policy makers in
Africa;
 Major overhaul of our web site – discussion with iHEA
 Provide technical support to regional, sub-regional policy level bodies, - AU,
WAHO , ECSA, etc
 Sustain and expand AfHEA’s partnership base in support of the association’s
objectives; and
 Conclude the development of AfHEA’s consultancy data base.
 Improve AfHEA’s mechanism for the payment of annual and membership dues,
guided by the thoughts and suggestions emerging from the forum
 Discussion with iHEA on facility for online payments
 Work on refining our business model with an eye to sustainability
Recommendations
 Revise business plan period to run from 2011 -
2014
Extend our use of new technology for decision
making and other activities
Conclusion
 Thank the Board and Executive Committee members
 Thank AfHEA’s membership
 Our Medium term goal is to become the ‘Go to place’
for Health Economics, Health financing and Health
Policy issues in Africa;
 With our collective effort, we definitely can!
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