Focus Area: <span>Strengthening PFM and immunisation budgeting</span>

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Introducing Programme-Based Budgets in Health

06/28/2022

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Programme-based budgets are a budgeting instrument to link budget allocations to outputs. Over the past two decades, nearly all low and middle-income countries (LMICs) have initiated reforms to shift from input-based budgets to programme or output-based budgets, and health has often been a pilot sector for the introduction of these reforms. While some LMICs are … Continued

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Welcome Boost for Routine Vaccination through Pragmatic Financial Management

In Nigeria, the dual challenge of low coverage and inequitable access, particularly in the northern part of the country, has led to low immunization coverage, making the populous nation one of the largest contributors to the global burden of vaccine-preventable illnesses and deaths (VPDs). Lack of political will, insufficient organizational capacity and inadequate funding were … Continued

From Overall Fiscal Space to Budgetary Space for Health: Connecting Public Financial Management to Resource Mobilization in the Era of COVID-19

 | Hélène Barroy and Sanjeev Gupta
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Learning how a variety of public financial management (PFM) improvements at each stage of the budget cycle can enhance budgetary space for health.

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The interventions and strategies contained in this paper can help health policymakers systematically link PFM reforms to budgetary space for health by supporting comprehensive country assessments and by enhancing the effectiveness of budget dialogue between finance and health authorities.

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Video Podcasts: Leveraging Public Financial Management for Better Health

 | World Health Organization
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Learning about key public financial management topics including budget formulation, execution, and accountability.

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For countries looking to initiate or strengthen their public financial management systems, these video podcasts provide successful examples of how countries around the world have addressed and overcome key PFM challenges.

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In 2019,

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Let Managers Manage: A Health Service Provider’s Perspective on Public Financial Management

This post originally appeared on the World Bank’s Investing in Health Blog. Below is an excerpt from the blog. In low and middle-income countries (LMICs), public financial management (PFM) reforms often consist of a standard set of interventions  to strengthen the overall strategic allocation and accountability of public funds. They are often not sufficiently customised or … Continued

From Stumbling Block to Enabler: The Role of Public Financial Management in Health Service Delivery in Tanzania and Zambia

 | Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen and Pia Schneider

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The way governments manage resources through the budget cycle has important implications for health policy and whether governments achieve societal objectives such as efficiency, equity, quality, and accountability. Studies found a positive association between health service delivery outcomes and good governance of public finance; however, the mechanisms through which public financial management affects service delivery remain under-explored.

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Budget Credibility Across Countries: How Deviations are Affecting Spending on Social Priorities

 | Paolo de Renzio, Jason Lakin, Chloe Cho

As countries increasingly focus on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), attention is often focused on the financing gap governments face in meeting their commitments. Not enough questions are being asked about governments’ capacity to effectively manage and spend the resources that they already have – or say they have. In this paper, researchers use a recent dataset to look at how “credible” government budgets are across the world – by “credible” we mean the extent to which actual spending matches the approved budget – and,

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WHO Webinar Series: Leveraging Public Financial Management for Better Health

05/01/2019 - 11/30/2019

Webinar Series

WHO is conducting a six- part webinar series from May to November 2019 on how to reform budgets and make them work better for UHC. The series aims to enhance technical knowledge and capacity among key sector stakeholders and stimulate peer exchange on the implementation of budget reforms in health. It will consist of six … Continued

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4 Things Ministers of Finance Need to Know about Immunization in Gavi Transitioning Countries

Authors: Helen Saxenian, Logan Brenzel, Leah Ewald, and Meghan O’Connell

The Ministry of Finance is a crucial ally for Ministries of Health and country immunization programs aiming to successfully manage Gavi transition. Ministries of Health, Ministries of Finance, Ministries of Budget, and development partners often have separate planning processes, which can make it difficult to plan for the needs of changing immunization programs as they move toward self-sustainability.

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WHO Budget Structure Reforms and Transition to Program Budgeting in Health: Lessons from Armenia

 | WHO

WHO’s case study of ongoing budget reform in Armenia finds that Armenia’s gradual transition to program-based budgeting has improved the National Assembly’s ability to assess the extent to which budgets are consistent with policy and track program performance through the introduction of indicators for quantity, quality and timeliness of health services. Armenia’s National Immunization Program is a consolidated activity within the Public Health Program,

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