The World Bank, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, organized from March 28 to 30, 2023, an orientation workshop on the alignment framework in the health sector in Burkina Faso. The inauguration ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Health, Dr. Lucien KARGOUGOU.
Dozens of public and private sector stakeholders, technical and financial partners (TFP) and civil society actors participated in this orientation meeting on the alignment framework in the health sector. With this workshop, Burkina Faso joins the other three (03) pilot countries in Africa, namely Central Africa, Ethiopia and Rwanda, in the enhanced alignment program at the highest level. The process benefits from the financial and technical support of the World Bank and the Global Financing Mechanism.
The main objective of this workshop is to introduce participants to the alignment framework in the health sector in Burkina Faso. Specifically, it will, among other things, describe the basic components of the alignment framework and its results, explain the process of implementing the alignment framework and illustrate how stakeholders can productively participate in the diagnostic exercise, explain the content of a national action plan to improve harmonization, discuss the relationship between the results of the diagnostic exercise and the maturity model, and identify next steps to ensure follow-up of the process.
Alignment is a process of planning and implementing policies, strategies and priorities, in which all parties involved at the global and national levels follow the fundamental principle of a single plan, a single budget and a single report. However, the Minister of Health has pointed out that, in practice, this desire for clear alignment is sometimes hampered by political, institutional and organizational problems that need to be identified and overcome in order to implement the planned alignment.
