Iniciativa mesoamericana de la salud

Salud Mesoamérica 2015 has US$142 million available to provide grants to countries and will leverage US$54 million in counterpart funding from governments, for a total of nearly US$200 million in investments for the target population. The first eight operations represent an investment of US$55 million, of which US$34 million is from the initiative and more than US$21 from the country counterparts.

It is significant that the first operations represent a direct investment of US$30 per beneficiary, which is almost three times higher than public spending in some Central American countries on basic health services for the poorest 20 percent of the population.

Investment by country (millions of US$)

COUNTRY	Initiative Funding	Government counterpart	Country totals
El Salvador	10.4	5.2	15.7
Guatemala	27.9	13.9	41.8
Panama	4	3.5	7.5
Belize	1.5	1	2.5
Costa Rica	3.5	3	6.5
Honduras	15.2	10.1	25.3
Nicaragua	11.1	5.5	16.5
Mexico-Chiapas	13.6	11.6	25.2

 

First Operation by country (millions of US$)

COUNTRY	*Total contri-bution from the Initiative	Government counterpart	Total first phase
El Salvador	6.5	3.3	9.8
Guatemala	7.7	3.9	11.6
Panama	2	1.7	3.7
Belize	0.8	0.5	1.3
Costa Rica	2	1.7	3.7
Honduras	6	4	10
Nicaragua	4.7	2.3	7
Mexico-Chiapas	4.5	3.9	8.4
Total	34.2	21.3	55.5
* The total contribution includes the portion to be transferred to the government upon  fulfillment of the agreed targets equivalent to half of the government counterpart