Global Health 2035, the report of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. It showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a “grand...

Strategic purchasing (SP) for health is an important policy lever to influence health service provision and accelerate progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). The effectiveness of SP in reaching UHC goals is limited if there is poor coordination and fragmentation between schemes. We...

Kenya has progressed towards implementing and institutionalizing strategic health purchasing (SHP) practices as a key strategy to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, multiple challenges are faced such as fragmentation of pooling arrangements, inadequate health funding, rigid...

This study explored strategic purchasing of health services in Sierra Leone. Purchasing of healthservices in Sierra Leone is at a formative stage. Our study identified nine such purchasing schemes, which can be grouped into five major categories of purchasers: a) the ministry of health and...

Although strategic purchasing is increasingly advocated as one of the solutions for improving the performance of the health system, purchasing in Senegal has been mostly passive. Some active purchasing mechanisms have been recently introduced as part of the country’s health financing strategy...

Many countries are now transitioning away from donor aid for health as they move from low- to middle-income status and see improved health outcomes. To promote better planning and preparedness for transition, many transition readiness assessment tools (TRAs) have been developed in recent years....

Sri Lanka is well-recognized in terms of the progress made on several social indicators, including its health achievements. The country has made significant progress in health outcomes, including increased life expectancy, gains in maternal and child health outcomes, and elimination of major...