Country ownership without fiscal justice is responsibility without resources
Abstract
Recent debates in global health, including reproductive health, have embraced an attractive proposition: as donor assistance contracts, countries in the Global South might finally define their own health priorities, build locally owned systems, and move beyond donor dependence. This argument has gained traction across global health discourse, including recent family planning commentaries that propose country ownership, domestic financing, localisation, and integration into universal health coverage as measures of success after the end of US foreign aid.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Local Government Finance and Decentralization
Global Financial Crisis and Policies
Land Rights and Reforms
Publication details
- Journal / source
- The Lancet Global Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 104013–104013
- Publication date
- 6 July 2026
- Language
- EN