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Islamic Republic of Mauritania, located in the western Africa, is one of the poorest countries. Nowadays, Mauritania’s politics and economy are relatively stable because of promoting democracy, liberalism and anti-starvation actions apart from other Arabic countries influenced by Arabic spring in 2011.
In accordance with Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (hereinafter PRSP) of 2000, Mauritania has been struggling with their poverty to attain the goals of 2015, meanwhile results of post implementation review of 2006 and 2011 were far from PRSP’s goals unfortunately.
In fact, infant mortality rate is 77 per mil, infant and child mortality rate is 122 per mil and maternal mortality rate is 686 per 10,000 in 2007, otherwise PRSP demonstrate goals like 40, 55 and 300 respectively. Therefore the discrepancies between them are still broadened.
How can Mauritania achieve the above goals? To attain the solid goals, it is clearly important that strengthening health system as cross-cutting approach could be coordinated with health project as longitudinal approach.
Japanese aids highlight basic human needs directly supporting human life and health such educational, medical and gender. For three years after Japanese embassy inception, 4 health relating projects have been organized and commenced. Japanese Official Development respects international strategies for poverty and coordination with other overseas bodies and Mauritanian policy.
Objectives
To define indicators to analyze how Japanese aids harmonize the international and Mauritanian health policies.
Methods
- To propose the checklists of application forms for harmonizing with health system and each project.
- To score the past projects by means of the checklists as a case study. Furthermore to ensure whether each project is relevant and useful.
Results and Assessment
With the checklist, Japanese aids are consistent with international and Mauritanian health policies, which mean support health system as well as their own projects.
Learning Objectives: To coordinate health system and each project, both of them should share the same goals and have health targets. Futhermore, to materialize fair and transparent grass-root grand aid, assessment sheets are needed to designated to consider international common goals. The sheets was analyzed by means of comparing with the real grass-root grand aid project.