Synthesis Report of Health Information Systems in India
May 31, 2014A highly functioning national health information system (HIS) facilitates transparent and evidence-based decision making that ultimately leads to improvements in the health status of a country’s population. Rather than reflecting a single structure t …
Improving Data for Decision-Making: Leveraging Data Quality Audits in Haryana, India
May 31, 2014The Government of India has prioritized 184 of the 640 districts in the country for focused maternal and child health interventions under an integrated program called the Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) initiat …
Strengthening Governance to Improve Access to Quality Healthcare
March 1, 2014Effective health sector governance is essential to sustainable, equitable access to quality care. The USAID-funded Enabling Equitable Health Reform in Albania (EEHR) project has worked closely with health institutions and civil society at the nationa …
Leveraging Performance-based Incentive Programs to Strengthen Civil Society Monitoring of Health Care Providers
January 30, 2014Performance-based incentive (PBI) programs are burgeoning all over the world, and can be leveraged to strengthen social accountability and overcome key challenges associated with civil society monitoring of health care providers. Community-based
Where Are Our Budgets? Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys as Tools for Engaging with Civil Society
December 30, 2013Ensuring the funds allocated for health services and supplies are actually used for their intended purpose is key to increasing access to life-saving health care in low- and medium-income countries. For nearly two decades, countries and international …
Data for Efficiency: A Tool for Assessing Health Systems’ Resource Use Efficiency – A Toolkit for Health Sector Managers
December 15, 2013Measuring efficiency across institutions and time is critical for improving health systems’ performance. This tool outlines key data categories and indicators necessary for assessing efficiency in the use of resources.
Developing Key Performance Indicators – A Toolkit for Health Sector Managers
December 15, 2013Key performance indicators (KPIs) represent a point of convergence between ministries of health and ministries of finance or, where separate, the central budget authority. This tool provides useful guidance for the health sector on developing and usi …
Self-Assessment of Internal Control Health Sector – A Toolkit for Health Sector Managers
December 15, 2013This tool is designed to help public health officials determine areas of strength and weakness in how public funds are managed and spent. It includes a set of general indicators for the health sector as well as a separate set of indicators specifical …
Guided Self-Assessment of Public Financial Management Performance – A Toolkit for Health Sector Managers
December 15, 2013Good performance of Public Financial Management (PFM) systems is one of the elements of governance that should be reinforced in support of sound, evidence-based health interventions. PFM performance, however, is typically assessed by considering the …
Infection Control Program Implementation in Egypt: A Process Assessment
September 14, 2012Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) is leading a decades-long (1997-2018) Health Sector Reform Program that has five guiding principles: universality, quality, equity, efficiency, and sustainability. A major part of the reform is to move …
