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Barbados Health Spending Estimation

Health Finance, Presentations, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA), Where We Work

Resource Type: Study Results Authors: Karishmah Bhuwanee Published: September 2018 Resource Description: Over the past five years, Barbados has been grappling with economic challenges while trying to provide universal health coverage for its population. At the same time, an aging population, rising incidence of non-communicable diseases, and the population’s desire for new and innovative treatments are contributing to […]

Better Governance, Better Health: The Evidence

Governance and Leadership, Governance and Quality, Health Governance, Public Financial Management, Publications

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Annie Baldridge, Hélène Barroy, Sara Bennett, Maryam Bigdelli, Derick W. Brinkerhoff, Jodi Charles, David Clarke, Catherine Connor, Arin Dutta, Fadi El Jardali, Elizabeth Elfman, Walter Flores, Eunice Heredia-Ortiz, David Jacobstein, Jeremy Kanthor, Adam Koon, Shreeshant Prabhakaran, Dheepa Rajan, Karima Saleh, Akshar Saxena, Suneeta Sharma, Katie Shepard, Kelsee Stromberg, Jesse Uneke, Lauren Windmeyer […]

HFG Malaria Technical Review

HFG Project, Malaria and Other Vector-borne Disease, Publications

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Sophie Faye and Kelley Ambrose Published: September 2018 Resource Description: Many countries have made impressive gains in decreasing malaria mortality and incidence. Malaria mortality has decreased by 60 percent, with 6.2 million lives saved since 2000. Yet, to achieve a malaria-free world, funding for cost-effective interventions and efficient malaria control programs must be sustained […]

The Use of Political Economy Analysis in Health System Strengthening

Health Finance, Health Systems Assessments, Health Systems Research, Publications

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Carmen Lane and Daniel Martinko. Published: September 2018 Resource Description: There is a growing recognition that political economy analysis (PEA) is an essential aspect of external donor assistance to complex health reform processes. USAID’s Vision for Health Systems Strengthening (2015–2019), for example, recognizes that “broad political economy issues often drive health systems organization, priorities, […]

Financial Management Mechanisms to Support Increased Government Spending on Health

Health Finance, Public Financial Management, Publications

Resource Type: Report Authors: John Yates and Darrell Freund Published: September 2018 Resource Description: While many low- and middle-income country (LMIC) governments have increased funding for the health sector over the past decade, more public resources will be required to reach any reasonable definition of universal health coverage (UHC). While funding UHC in these countries remains a daunting […]

Malaria Economic Research Guide

Malaria and Other Vector-borne Disease, Publications

Resource Type: Guide Authors:  Health Finance and Governance Project Published: September 2018 Resource Description: In November 2015, the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and the Health Finance and Governance Project (HFG) hosted a consultative session on the Economic Impact of Malaria Control at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in Philadelphia. […]

Integrating Financing of Vertical Health Programs: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines

Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Health Finance, Publications, TB

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Health Finance and Governance Project Published: September 2018 Resource Description: For better or worse, many low- and middle- income countries inherited vertical programs in which programming, financing, governance, and service delivery are all organized around an individual disease.  Governments must now decide whether a new government-managed financing scheme such as national or social health […]

Costing of Community-Level HIV Services in Barbados: Final Report

Announcements, Health Finance, HIV/AIDS, Publications, Where We Work

Resource Type: Report Authors: Dr. Sophie Faye, Chisa Cumberbatch, and Altea Cico Published: September 2017 Barbados is currently experiencing tight fiscal constraints due to the slowdown of economic growth coupled with the fact that as a high-income country, it now no longer qualifies for concessional loan arrangements and grants from development partners. The President’s Emergency Plan for […]

Strategic Purchasing to Support Voluntarism, Informed Choice, Quality and Accountability in Family Planning: Lessons from Results-Based Financing

Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Health Finance, Public Financial Management, Publications

Resource Type: Report Authors: Rena Eichler, Jenna Wright, Ben Bellows, Marie Cole, Victoria Boydell and Karen Hardee. Published: September 2018 Resource Description: The past 20 years have seen unprecedented financial commitment to family planning (FP) among governments of low- and middle-income countries and the donors that support them. However, mobilizing government and external resources is […]

Webinar | Better Health Governance, Better Health: Harnessing the Evidence

Governance and Quality, Presentations

The importance of governance in health systems is well recognized, but there is still considerable debate on how governance interventions affect change in health outcomes and which interventions are appropriate for different contexts. This lack of clarity often reduces health governance efforts to a limited set of interventions, or justifies their exclusion altogether. To address this […]

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