Child Survival Call to Action sign that U.S. government looking to collaborate on foreign aid

Jun 28 2012

"The Child Survival Call to Action shows the U.S. government navigating a new approach to global health and development," Nellie Bristol, global health research fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), and Janet Fleischman, senior associate at the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, write in a post on the center's "Smart Global Health" blog. The summit and its Global Roadmap (.pdf) "illustrate the new approach to foreign aid: collaboration and partnerships, country leadership instead of donor dictates and integration of services instead of a disease specific focus," the authors write, adding, "They also highlight other new realities in the development arena in that they promise little additional funding and put the onus on the countries themselves to ensure progress." They conclude, "How momentum from the Call to Action will lead to changes to U.S. global health efforts remains to be seen" (6/26).