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Global health partnerships created to encourage funding efficiencies need to be approached with some caution, with claims for innovation and responsiveness to development needs based on untested assumptions around the potential of some partners to adapt their application, funding and evaluation procedures within these new structures. We examine this in the case of the Health Systems Funding Platform, which despite being set up some three years earlier, has stalled at the point of implementation of its key elements of collaboration. While much of the attention has been centred on the suspension of the Global Fund's Round 11, and what this might mean for health systems strengthening and the Platform more broadly, we argue that inadequate scrutiny has been made of the World Bank's contribution to this partnership, which might have been reasonably anticipated based on an historical analysis of development perspectives. Given the tensions being created by the apparent vulnerability of the health systems strengthening agenda, and the increasing rhetoric around the need for greater harmonization in development assistance, an examination of the positioning of the World Bank in this context is vital.

Those on one side of a hostile political debate may feel that their opponents "just speak a different language." I argue that proponents of deeply conflicting opinions may have more in common than they think. I use textual analysis of arguments for and against gay parenting to demonstrate that the opponents–both pro and con–structure their arguments using the same basic set of concepts: family, rights, and prejudice. I argue that people's statements of opinion can be understood as more than manifestations of individual psychology. Rather, people's one‐sided arguments are rhetorical attempts to leverage powerful basic ideas of right and wrong as support. Debates, therefore, become battles of competing claims to ownership of basic concepts of good and bad. The basic concepts are beyond debate; the struggle takes place over appropriating them for one's side. In a debate, therefore, those on opposite sides of an issue often "talk right past each other"; those on one side cannot deny the significance of the basic concepts claimed by their opponents, so they generally ignore their opponents'models and instead keep repeating their own.

The 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, held in Busan, South Korea in November 2011 again promised an opportunity for a "new consensus on development cooperation" to emerge. This paper reviews the recent evolution of the concept of coordination for development assistance in health as the basis from which to understand current discourses. The paper reviews peer-reviewed scientific literature and relevant 'grey' literature, revisiting landmark publications and influential authors, examining the transitions in the conceptualisation of coordination, and the related changes in development assistance. Four distinct transitions in the understanding, orientation and application of coordination have been identified: coordination within the sector, involving geographical zoning, sub-sector specialisation, donor consortia, project co-financing, sector aid, harmonisation of procedures, ear-marked budgetary support, donor agency reform and inter-agency intelligence gathering; sector-wide coordination, expressed particularly through the Sector-Wide Approach; coordination across sectors at national level, expressed in the evolution of Poverty Strategy Reduction Papers and the national monitoring of the Millennium Development Goals; and, most recently, global-level coordination, embodied in the Paris Principles, and the emergence of agencies such as the International Health Partnerships Plus. The transitions are largely but not strictly chronological, and each draws on earlier elements, in ways that are redefined in the new context. With the increasing complexity of both the territory of global health and its governance, and increasing stakeholders and networks, current imaginings of coordination are again being challenged. The High Level Forum in Busan may have been successful in recognising a much more complex landscape for development than previously conceived, but the challenges to coordination remain.

The Best Intentions -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- The Best Intentions -- Summary -- COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS -- The Campaign to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy -- Campaign Leadership -- 1 Introduction -- FOCUS OF THIS REPORT -- STUDY METHODS AND REPORT ORGANIZATION -- 2 Demography of Unintended Pregnancy -- TERMINOLOGY -- PERCENTAGE RATES OF UNINTENDED PREGNANCY -- WOMEN AT RISK OF UNINTENED PREGNANCY -- WOMEN WHO HAVE UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES -- TRENDS IN UNINTENDED PREGNANCY -- Overall Trends for All Women -- Trends Among Currently Married Women -- Trends Among Never-Married Women -- Trends in Births Unwanted at Conception -- THE ROLE OF ABORTION -- Factors That Affect Who Obtains an Abortion -- INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS -- U.S. Abortion Rates Versus Other Western Democracies -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 3 Consequences of Unintended Pregnancy -- ABORTION AS A CONSEQUENCE OF UNINTENDED PREGNANCY -- Medical Complications -- Rates of Complications -- Psychological Issues -- Political Issues -- MATERNAL DEMOGRAPHIC STATUS -- Adolescent Childbearing: Socioeconomic Issues -- Adolescent Childbearing: Medical Issues -- Childbearing at Older Ages: Socioeconomic and Medical Issues -- Childbearing by Single Women -- THE EFFECTS OF INTENDEDNESS -- Methodological Concerns -- Prenatal Care -- Behavioral Risks in Pregnancy -- Low Birthweight -- Infant Mortality -- Poor Child Health and Development -- Consequences for the Parents -- Mothers -- Fathers -- PRECONCEPTION CARE -- THE DEMOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS OF REDUCING UNINTENDED PREGNANCY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 4 Patterns of Contraceptive Use -- PATTERNS OF CONTRACEPTIVE USE AND UNINTENDED PREGNANCY -- Unintended Pregnancy Among Women Using No Contraception (Group C) -- Unintended Pregnancy Among Women Using Contraception (Groups A and B) -- Contraceptive Sterilization.