As a part of the U.S.-Caribbean Regional HIV and AIDS Partnership Framework 2010-2014, USAID/Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean (USAID) asked the Health Systems 20/20 and the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector projects
Financial data and management are critical to effective health governance. Access to, and use of, timely and accurate health budgeting and expenditure data are key to public health officials’ capacity to make future investment decisions understand the effectiveness
Health governance—one of the pillars of a health system—has received appreciable attention from the Ethiopian health sector over the past decade. Through the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), the health sector has various coordinating mechanisms
The U.S. Agency for International Development Mission in Rwanda (USAID/Rwanda) convened a team of international and local consultants through the USAID-funded Health Systems 20/20 project to design and implement a health governance assessment.
This policy brief focuses on the transition from emergency assistance and relief to strengthening the health system for the long term, and the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and how they can help fragile states to rehabilitate their health systems. There is general agreement
USAID’s Global Health Bureau, through a series of field assistance and applied analysis programs, has helped countries address a range of governance-related issues within the framework of health systems strengthening. However, only recently has health governance become an
In developing this document, Partnerships for Health Reform (PHR) addresses one aspect of managing the “politics” of the reform process: the need for information on key players who have an investment in proposed reforms. This is particularly important at the policy formulation and legitimation
Many Latin American countries have begun to reform their health sectors. In these countries, a lot of debate, analysis, and assistance has been directed toward the technical content of the reforms. Often, the government determines the direction and outline of health sector reforms. Once there
