title: Funding global health.
abstract: Experience teaches that the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) will need a financing facility if it is to garner widespread acceptance among low-income countries. The promise of financing is a well-established carrot to encourage countries to assume new convention-imposed obligations that will be costly to carry out. Promising to provide financing as part of an intergovernmental call for commitment also activates a rights-based approach. For donor and recipient countries, a funding facility embodies an actualization of their commitment to a convention's collective undertaking to address a given issue. Donors signal their commitment through their contributions; recipients signal commitment through their efforts to use any support received to achieve the convention's objectives. This essay highlights the need for an FCGH financing facility, provides a preliminary sketch of what it should look like, and urges the facility's creators to adopt a bold and innovative approach that draws upon, but improves, current precedents.
authors.affiliation: Beasley School of Law, Temple University.
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Smyth
authors.affiliation: Global Partnership for Education, World Bank.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Triponel
mesh_terms: D005381:Financing, Organized; D014943:Global Health / Q000191:economics*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation