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 under various mechanisms (grants, loans,                 sector programmes being strengthened
 credits) and to channel their funds in                   to be able to respond to AHI;
 various ways, including through the use                •A sc er t a i n i n g re s u lt s a n d i mp act:
 of Trust Funds to be administered by the                 The Beijing Conference agreed on
 World Bank under the AHI Facility.                       the need for a Multi-Donor Financing
 For its part, the World Bank has agreed                  Framework that is results/impact-
 to make available up to $500 million to                  oriented. Supporting the AHI Facility-
 help individual countries address the AHI                financing mechanism will facilitate
 challenge, following the FAO/OiE and                     the development of a common results
 WHO protocols.                                           framework that will make it possible
PRINCIPLES OF THE AHI FACILITY                            to track progress and impact in a
1. Rationale for a joint effort                           harmonised and transparent manner;
 In order to allow deployment of resources              •Leveraging strategic overall financing
 where needs and financing gaps are                       packages combining grants and loans:
 highest, and so that action is swift,                    Coordinated donor financing through
 efficient and equitable, several donors in               the Facility’s Trust Funds will aim at
 Beijing expressed a preference to channel                developing strategic overall financing
 resources through the AHI Facility. The                  packages, combining AHI Facility-grants
 reasons for doing so are:                                with bilateral grants and multilateral
 •P r omot i n g c ou nt r y ow ne r sh ip a n d          loans, credits and grants.
   policy dialogue:Channelling resources            2. Purpose and Objective of the AHI Facility
   through the AHI Facility and its Trust               The AHI Facility is created to assist
   Funds will support government-led                countries in meeting financing gaps in
   donor coordination regarding integrated          their AHI integrated country action plans,
   country action plans. It will build on           when domestic and existing bilateral or
   and strengthen the existing dialogue             multilateral donor resources are unable to
   and coordination arrangements between            fill the gap.
   the government and the donors as well            2.1. T he P u r p o s e of t he A H I Fac i l it y
   as with civil society;                               i s t o m i n i m i s e t he r i sk a n d s o c io-
 •Encouraging multi-sector reforms:                     e c onom ic i mp act of av ia n i n f luen z a
   Coordinated financing through the AHI                (and other zoonoses) and of a possible
   Facility will help to integrate external             human pandemic influenza in developing
   financing for avian and human influenza              countries lacking adequate domestic
   (“AHI”) into domestic financing and                  resources and capacity to combat the
   policy frameworks. This will help to                 disease.
   foster real sectoral reforms and deepen          2.2. The specific objectives of the AHI
   the policy reform dialogue, with existing            Facility are:

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