Smyth Sophie, Triponel Anna
Beasley School of Law, Temple University.
Global Partnership for Education, World Bank.
Health Hum Rights. 2013 Jun 14;15(1):E58-70.
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.
经验表明，《全球健康框架公约》（FCGH）若要在低收入国家获得广泛认可，将需要一个融资机制。融资承诺是一根既定的胡萝卜，用以鼓励各国承担新的公约规定的义务，而履行这些义务成本高昂。承诺提供融资作为政府间呼吁承诺的一部分，也激活了一种基于权利的方法。对于捐助国和受援国而言，一个融资机制体现了它们对公约集体应对特定问题承诺的兑现。捐助国通过其捐款表明承诺；受援国通过努力利用所获得的任何支持来实现公约目标表明承诺。本文强调了设立FCGH融资机制的必要性，初步勾勒了其应有的模样，并敦促该机制的创建者采用大胆创新的方法，借鉴但改进现有先例。
