Health as a Tracer Sector (HATS): Overview

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Achieving health development goals is not feasible without changed behaviour in line with the Paris Declaration.

Better health is fundamental to international efforts to reduce poverty: three of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) relate directly to health. While some progress has been made in achieving the health MDGs, much more needs to be done to improve the health status of developing countries.The OECD's work on aid effectiveness tracks, promotes and reports on progress in Health as a Tracer Sector (HATS).

The Task Team on Health as a Tracer Sector (TT HATS) is a multi-stakeholder international health forum which includes senior-level specialists in aid effectiveness and health from multilateral institutions, bilateral development agencies, developing countries and NGOs. Its mandate is to provide the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness with concrete illustrations of progress and remaining bottlenecks in the implementation of the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action in the health sector and formulate recommendations for progress towards more effective health aid.

TT HATS Final Report

The report on Progress and Challenges in Aid Effectiveness focusses on progress in implementing the Paris Declaration principles and on the contribution of aid effectiveness in achieving better results in health, with an analysis of the role of China, Brazil, India and Russia in the health sector in partner countries and the role of aid in supporting the effective contribution of the private sector in the sub-Saharan African health sector. Lessons from the health sector can be widely shared with a view to fostering progress in aid and development policies beyond the health sector itself.

The final report is available in English and French.

Additional resources: Links and documents

Good Practice in Applying the Paris Declaration at Sector Level: Interim Report on Health as a Tracer Sector (pdf, 849 kB)