Tag Archives: Shamima Akhter

Modeling Impact of the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Project

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Kenya Datari, Rachel Sanders, Shamima Akhter, and Catherine Connor Published: September 2018 Resource Description: HFG and its partner Avenir Health conducted a rigorous exercise to estimate the impact of the project’s health systems strengthening activities on its overall goal: increased use of priority health services. We used Spectrum, a suite of modeling tools developed by […]

Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of the Expanded Programme on Immunization in Bangladesh, 2017-2022

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Katie Shepard, Shamima Akhter, Afroja Yesmin, Nathan Blanchet and Mursaleena Islam Published: June 2018 Resource Description: This brief provides an overview of the resource gap analysis for the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in Bangladesh, based on the distribution of domestic and external resources allocated to the EPI and the estimated costs for […]

Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of the Essential Service Package in Bangladesh, 2017-2022

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Katie Shepard, Shamima Akhter, Afroja Yesmin, Nathan Blanchet and Mursaleena Islam Published: June 2018 Resource Description: This brief provides an overview of the resource gap analysis for the ESP, including data estimates for the Government of Bangladesh and donors, and presents the calculated resource gap for public sector provision of the Essential Service Package […]

Health Financing in Bangladesh: Why Changes in Public Financial Management Rules Will Be Important

Resource Type: Journal Publication Authors:  Md. Ashadul Islam, Shamima Akhter & Mursaleena Islam Published: February 21, 2018 Resource Description: Bangladesh has achieved remarkable improvement in health indicators since its independence in 1971, despite poor economic conditions. It achieved Millennium Development Goal 4 on child mortality and progressed substantially toward Goal 5 on maternal mortality, even with health […]

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