{"id":987525403,"date":"2018-02-15T03:47:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T02:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/info-strategic-purchasing-africa-resource-center-sparc\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:00:09","slug":"info-strategic-purchasing-africa-resource-center-sparc","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/info-strategic-purchasing-africa-resource-center-sparc\/","title":{"rendered":"Info: Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Results for Development \u2014 with support from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation \u2014 is helping to establish the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r4d.org\/projects\/toward-health-strengthening-strategic-purchasing-expertise-africa\/\">http:\/\/www.r4d.org\/projects\/toward-health-strengthening-strategic-purchasing-expertise-africa\/<\/a>). SPARC will be housed within a sub-Saharan African institution and serve as the hub of a vibrant network for people and institutions working on strategic purchasing in the region.<\/p>\n<p>SPARC aims to complement, rather than duplicate, existing initiatives, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r4d.org\/projects\/supporting-country-ownership-uhc-african-collaborative-health-financing-solutions\/\"><u>African Collaborative for Health Financing Solutions (ACS)<\/u><\/a>. An Advisory Committee of global and regional stakeholders will provide guidance on the design of the SPARC model and implementation activities.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">As the SPARC model is in the early stages of its design, a <strong>15-person Advisory Committee<\/strong> is being convened&nbsp;to guide the development of the model to ensure that it is effective and complementary to the many global, regional and country-level initiatives to strengthen health financing in sub-Saharan Africa. For this reason <strong>P4H has been invited to contribute expertise and knowledge of the health financing and policy landscape in sub-Saharan Africa and the specific needs for capacity building as&nbsp;part of a SPARC start-up Advisory Committee<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results for Development \u2014 with support from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation \u2014 is helping to establish the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC, http:\/\/www.r4d.org\/projects\/toward-health-strengthening-strategic-purchasing-expertise-africa\/). SPARC will be housed within a sub-Saharan African institution and serve as the hub of a vibrant network for people and institutions working on strategic purchasing in the region&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1888,"featured_media":987533308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[131,132],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987525403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987533308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987525403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987525403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987525403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}