Romain Schneider, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs, went to Geneva on 22 May 2014 in order to sign the International Health Partnership Global Compact (IHP+) in the presence of the WHO Director-General, Margaret Chan. The IHP+ is managed by the WHO together with the World Bank and its Secretariat is in Geneva. The Partnership was created to implement the principles of aid effectiveness in the health sector. Its signatories are governments of both developing and donor countries, as well as UN agencies and civil society.