06/10/2011 1 Wondong Cho Korea Institute for Public Finance Taejong Kim KDI School of Public Policy and Management ADB Workshop October 2011 National spearhead human capital Catching up faster when one lags behind further But there are conditions: rule of law, openness, etc. May also need national spearhead human capital Entrepreneurs Public servants Researchers Teachers Health professionals
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8/3/2019 Challenges in Coordinating Aid Among Donors in Laos - Tae Jong Kim
Seoul-Dr. Lee Project Collaboration between the UHS and the SNU School of
Medicine to upgrade faculty capacity for teaching and research Yearlong UHS faculty skills-upgrading in Seoul for up to 9
faculty members a year, combined with equipments andmaterials to be taken back
Named after the late Dr. Lee, Secretary General of WHO Modeled after the collaboration between the SNU School of
Medicine and the University of Minnesota under the aegis of theUSAID from the 50s
Funded through the Korea Foundation for International
Healthcare (KOFIH) Steep challenges: language barrier, differences in field conditions,
relatively small scale, relative lack of focus no more than justanother drop?
Lao-Korea Friendship Children’s Hospital
Largest hospital in Lao PDR to specialize in servingchildren patients over 6 months To serve as one of the teaching hospitals of the UHS
About 70 beds
Funded through KOICA
The funding plan provides for equipments for medicaltreatments, but not for those to support thefunctioning of the facility as a teaching hospital suchas a proper skills lab
A plan in the pipeline to fund skills upgrading for localhealthcare professionals
8/3/2019 Challenges in Coordinating Aid Among Donors in Laos - Tae Jong Kim
commitments The pledge on the part of the UHS to select for future Seoul-Dr. Lee
program batches key faculty personnel to be deployed at the newChildren’s Hospital upon their return,
The pledge on the part of the SNU Medical School to send onefaculty advisor to the UHS to assist the returning faculty membersand coordinate the initial development efforts at the newChildren’s Hospital as a teaching hospital, as well as a promise toconsider expansion of the Seoul-Dr. Lee Program into a two-year,degree program,
The pledges from the KOFIH and KOICA to coordinate their future
funding for the SDL project and the Friendship Children’s Hospitalto support the development of the new teaching hospital, and
The pledge from KOLAO, the leading private-sector business groupin Lao PDR to provide funding to augment funding gaps that mightemerge even after combined commitments from governmental andinternational donor agencies.
Seoul-Dr. Lee Project(program to focus on pediatrics and related fields)
EDC/HP as a Vehicle for Clinical Skills Upgrading Healthcare a bottleneck on the path to sustained
development
Financial AND human resources critical to overcome thebottleneck
Clinical skills deficit could create a vicious circle
In the Korean case, the Minnesota Project provided theinitial impetus, and the momentum sustained through theefforts of the NTTC (the latter with support from the WHO)
Difficulties for bilateral donor agencies to fund theinitiative: long gestation period, long results chain,difficulties in establishing claims of successful outcomes
PediatricsModule
Seoul-Dr. Lee Project(skills upgrading for
faculty members)
Lao-KoreaFriendship
Children’s Hospital(teaching hospital)
KOICA follow-ups-Training of healthcare
professionals fromprovinces and
districs
OB-GYNModule
Settatilath Hospital(teaching hospital)
……
Other Module(InternalMedicine, e.g.)
Other Module
Support from JICA?
UHS EDC/HP
8/3/2019 Challenges in Coordinating Aid Among Donors in Laos - Tae Jong Kim
Road Ahead September Vientiane workshop hosted by the Lao
government, convention of international donor agencies
Sector-wide coordination group the formal policy dialoguechannel
Ownership and leadership on the part of Lao MOH andUHS critical in designing strategic implementation planand securing donor engagement Components/modules phase plan
Financing plan (per module, infrastructure investment vs.recurrent costs)
Need for monitoring and impact assessment system tosustain continued donor engagement