And three for the Observatoire citoyen sur l'accès aux services de santé (OCASS). This third report for 2021 was made public on July 1 at a press conference. OCASS is a citizen watch system set up by RAME (Réseau accès aux médicaments essentiels) and its associative...
CNAMU-BURKINA FASO: Soumaila GAMSORE takes charge of General Management
Appointed on June 22, 2022 by the Council of Ministers, Soumaïla Gamsoré is now in charge of the CNAMU. During the handover ceremony held this Friday, July 1, 2022 at the headquarters of the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie Universelle, he already set himself a...
Niger: Several recommendations on CSU at the end of the International Conference on PSS
The International Conference on Social Protection in Health (PSS) came to a close in Niamey on Friday May 13. Following four days of work and exchanges, the participating countries published a note of commitments to facilitate access to healthcare services for the...
GFF organises a seminar on the institutionalisation of Zimbabwe’s Results Based Financing
In 2011, the Government of Zimbabwe in collaboration with the World Bank, initiated Results Based Financing (RBF) with the goal of increasing the availability, accessibility and utilisation of quality health care services. RBF is an example of strategic purchasing...
Seminar invitation: Institutionalization of Results-Based Financing: Lessons from Zimbabwe
The GFF with support from the World Bank has organised a seminar focusing on lessons learnt in institutionalizing Results Based Financing in Zimbabwe. Building on the ongoing discussion around mainstreaming results-based financing (RBF) in the health sector, this...
Burkina Faso: CSOs build capacity on global health financing mechanisms (GFF)
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, a workshop was held in Ouagadougou to prepare a roadmap for the involvement of civil society organizations (CSOs), on the initiative of the association SOS Jeunesse et Défis, in the Global Funding Facility (GFF) process in Burkina...
Burkina Faso: CSOs build capacity on global health financing mechanisms (GFF)
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, a workshop was held in Ouagadougou to prepare a roadmap for the involvement of civil society organizations (CSOs), on the initiative of the association SOS Jeunesse et Défis, in the Global Funding Facility (GFF) process in Burkina...
New publication: WHO Step-by-step guide to conducting a cross-programmatic efficiency analysis
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a diagnostic approach to enable countries to look across health programmes that are part of their health system to detect “cross-programmatic” inefficiencies. The approach uses applied health system analysis to unpack...
Transition to program budgeting in Uganda: status of the reform and preliminary lessons for health
To make sustainable progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), public health financing is very critical. Uganda has taken major budgetary reforms to optimize budget planning, transparency, and accountability since the early 2000s. The two major reforms over...
Training workshop on strategic purchasing mechanisms (out put financing) for the CSU
Workshop objectives Enable the various stakeholders in healthcare financing to better understand the operating principles of each strategic purchasing mechanism (out put financing), its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. Obtain proposals on the practical...
A new document on the transition to Program Based Budgeting and its implication on health has been posted on the Uganda country page
The report describes Uganda's transition process to programme-based budget, as a means to better align with public policy priorities and enhance accountability and transparency. It also discusses what the implications are for the health sector. The report...
Côte d’Ivoire: Workshop on the analysis of the national health financing system
To address the issue of health financing, the Ministry of Health initiated a series of reflections which led to the choice of moving towards Universal Health Coverage, through equitable and optimal health financing capable of supporting health in a sustainable way....
Study of the potential for expanding the budgetary space dedicated to health in the Republic of Burundi
Guinea: a Health Solidarity Fund in anticipation of the CSU
Mohamed Dadjane Keita is Director of Research Operations at the Center for HIV and Mental Health Research at the University of Miami. It focuses on an urgent issue: the creation of a health solidarity fund to save lives in Guinea. The researcher takes as his...
CSU в Буркина-Фасо: исследователи представляют свои результаты с целью оказания влияния на лиц, принимающих решения
С марта 2019 года по октябрь 2021 года исследователи из нескольких институтов в сотрудничестве с Министерством здравоохранения Буркина-Фасо проводили исследовательский проект, посвященный успешному внедрению всеобщего охвата населения медицинскими услугами в...