Health Sector Public Expenditure Review, 2010/11
July 1, 2012The main objective of Health Sector Public Expenditure Review for fiscal year (FY) 2011 (PER FY11) was to assess the budgetary allocations and expenditures to inform stakeholders about progress made in key health financing milestones over the 2006/07 …
Cost Analysis of Services at Victoria Hospital, St. Lucia
April 6, 2012As 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
Public Budgeting and Expenditure Management in Three Nigerian States: Challenges for Health Governance
April 1, 2012Financial 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 th …
Health Facility Governance in the Ethiopian Health System
March 1, 2012Health 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 coordinat …
Rwanda Health Governance Assessment
December 1, 2010The 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.
From Humanitarian and Post-conflict Assistance to Health System Strengthening in Fragile States: Clarifying the Transition and the Role of NGOs
November 1, 2008This 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 hea …
Health Governance: Concepts, Experience, and Programming Options
February 6, 2008USAID’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 healt …
Stakeholder Analysis Guidelines
March 6, 2001In 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 importan …
Policy Toolkit for Strengthening Health Sector Reform, September 2000
September 1, 2000Many 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 o …