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Dr. Aminu Magashi Garba

Nigerian, Dr. Magashi Garba, elected Civil Societies’ Representative to Global Financing Facility Investors Group

 Dr. Aminu Magashi Garba

Dr. Aminu Magashi Garba

The international community via the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) NGO constituency has elected Dr Aminu Magashi Garba as one of the two next civil society representatives to the Global Financing Facility (GFF) Investors’ Group. The announcement came at the end of PMNCH Board Meeting on Thursday 27th October 2016 that took place in Maputo, Mozambique.
The PMNCH NGO Board Chair Betsy McCallon had this to say about the election “your active engagement, commitment to transparent and participatory processes, and in depth knowledge of health planning and financing impressed the review committee, and we are confident in your ability to fulfil the role. We are truly pleased to welcome you to this position and hope to have your confirmation of acceptance as soon as possible.”
Dr Magashi will be attending the 4th GFF Investors Group meeting holding in Daressalam, Tanzania from 3rd-4th November 2016. Membership to the IG is voluntary and non-paid.

About GFF
Global Financing Facility is a multi-stakeholder partnership in support of the United Nation’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health and the new Sustainable Development Goals. The GFF in support of Every Woman Every Child seeks to contribute to global efforts and momentum to end preventable deaths of women, adolescents, children, and newborns by 2030 and to accelerate and direct domestic and international resources to scale sustainable financing of RMNCAH
It is a financing mechanism that aims to align funding, improve efficiencies, and mobilize new resources including:
• Multi-donor GFF Trust Fund linked to the World Bank’s IDA
• Domestic resources (public and private)
• Additional donor resources from bilateral assistance and other existing financing mechanism.
At the global level, the GFF is primarily governed through an Investors Group, which is comprised of representatives from GFF country, United Nations System, Gavi, the Global Fund, PMNCH, bilateral donors, Private Sector and Civil Societies Reps. It has five objectives:
1. Finance national plans to scale-up RMNCAH
2. Support countries’ transition toward sustainable domestic financing
3. Finance the strengthening of CRVS systems
4. Finance the development and deployment of global public goods that support strong health systems
5. Contribute to a better coordinated and streamlined RMNCAH financing architecture
At the national level, the GFF is managed by a multi-stakeholder country platform, responsible for coordination, developing, implementing, and monitoring the country investment case and health financing strategy. GFF is currently active in 16 countries. These countries are part of the full set of 62 high burden Low- and LMIC eligible to participate in the GFF

About Dr Aminu Magashi Garba
Aminu founded and coordinates the Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN) which is a regional network committed to using budget advocacy to influence adequate spending, transparency and accountability in the Africa’s health sector. Through the work of AHBN, he is an active member of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) CSOs Coordination Group and Global Steering Committee for Harmonization on Universal Health Coverage Advocacy Initiative. He is also a co-convener of the PMNCH Steering Group on accountability drive. In Nigeria he has been active for over 2 decades now in pursuance of accountability and transparency in the health sector as well as advocating for sustainable financing of the sector. Recently Aminu led the Africa Health Budget Network and launched a global and regional campaign “Value our Health’ focusing on openness and participation. He writes a weekly newspaper health column with a Nigerian Newspaper ‘Daily Trust’ for over 14 years and the publisher of an online newspaper ‘Health Reporters – www.healthreporters.info’ that reports on SRMNCAH in Africa. He is the Chair Board of Trustees of Community Health and Research Initiative (CHR), a national NGO in Nigeria advocating for adequate finances in the health sector, transparency and accountability.

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