"India will more than double its spending on healthcare in the next fiscal year as it aims to boost the sector crippled by the coronavirus pandemic". Read more...
Equity Budgeting Tool_Evaluating the place of Gender in Health budget planning
An EBT analysis was performed in 2019 in order to assess to what extent Gender is considered in the different stages of budget planning at the Ministry of Health. This report focuses on the analysis of budgetary equity in Cameroon. It is an application of...

Decrease in the budget allocated to the Ministry of Health in 2021
The budget allocated to the Ministry of Health will increase from 213.651 billion Fcfa to 197.121 billion Fcfa in 2021, of which 84.197 billion will be dedicated to operational activities and 112.924 billion to public budget investment. The preferred...
Disminución del presupuesto asignado al Ministerio de Sanidad en 2021
El presupuesto asignado al Ministerio de Sanidad pasará de 213.651 millones de FCFA a 197.121 millones de FCFA en 2021, de los cuales 84.197 millones se dedicarán a actividades operativas y 112.924 millones a inversiones del presupuesto público. Los...

N$72.8 billion budget for 2020/21 financial year announced
The Minister of Finance, Iipumbu Shiimi on Wednesday tabled the national budget for the financial year 2020/21 totalling N$72.8 billion from N$66.5 billion budgeted in the 2019/20 financial year. Shiimi in a budget statement said the single-year budget reflects the...
Health financing policy : a guide for decision-makers, WHO/EURO
This paper elaborates an approach to health financing policy that countries can adapt to their own national context. This entails: (1) specification of a set of health finance policy objectives, grounded in the core values espoused by WHO; (2) a conceptual framework...

Universal health coverage and COVID-19 preparedness and response in Asia and the Pacific
Authors: Soonman KWON and Eunkyoung KIM Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has disrupted all aspects of our global society and economies and progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), further worsening structural fragilities and deepening inequalities (1)....

Webinar: More money for health services: what is the role of PFM in the “new normal”?
Historically, public financial management (PFM) has been overlooked in academic and policy discussions on the availability of domestic resources. However, there is now a growing body of evidence that shows the impact of PFM processes on the quality and volume of...

Health Financing Progress Matrix 2.0 – Launch Event December 16th 2020
The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) is WHO’s standardized assessment of country health financing systems using a set of evidence-informed benchmarks, which are also referred to as desirable attributes. Each attribute represents one...
Universal Health Coverage in the United Kingdom

What is going on in Kazakhstan?
Recently, the Minister of the national economy of Kazakhstan Ruslan Dalenov presented the results of socio-economic development since the beginning of 2020. At the end of November, inflation was 7.3%, and the GDP decreased by 2.8%. Inflation, combined with the...

Côte d’Ivoire: Fiscal Annex 2021 and CMU
In this article, the KOACI newspaper reports on the measures taken in the appendix to the 2021 Finance Act concerning VAT exemptions and aimed at controlling the cost of healthcare reimbursed by the CMU....

Côte d’Ivoire: Fiscal Annex 2021 and CMU
In this article, the KOACI newspaper reports on the measures taken in the appendix to the 2021 Finance Act concerning VAT exemptions and aimed at controlling the cost of healthcare reimbursed by the CMU....

MoH and partners finalize the Strategic Plan extension 2020-24
The Ministry of Health, development partners and civil society are finalizing the joint process to review and extend the Strategic Plan, which will cover the period 2020-24. The adaptations will be focused on areas that have experienced relevant advancements, such as...

Latest Iteration of Myanmar Development Assistance Policy
The latest Iteration of Myanmar Development Assistance Policy has been launched in November 2020. The new policy aims to ensure that development assistance is at all times: fully aligned with the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan 2018-2030, and Sectoral,...