The Muskoka Initiative and Global Health Financing

Published May 28, 2014

This policy brief offers a preliminary data analysis of Canada’s Muskoka MNCH health financing initiative, placing the same in the wider context of global health financing.

The analysis sheds light on the following questions:

1. Where is Canada with respect to its financing commitment?
2. Where does Muskoka-MNCH funding go? And who are the key partners?
3. Which subsectors, within health, are the focus of the initiative?
4. How does Canada compare with other donors active in global health financing?
5. How does donor health spending compare with other sources, such as domestic financing in developing countries?

Author: Aniket Bhushan