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Improving Monitoring Data Systems to Count and Account for Stillbirths

This series is produced by the Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice of the World Bank. The papers in this series aim to provide a vehicle for publishing preliminary results on HNP topics to encourage discussion and debate. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author(s) and should […]
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GFF Roadmap for improved stillbirth reporting and response

Why is counting stillbirths important for Global Financing Facility (GFF)-supported countries? Each year, globally, nearly 2 million pregnancies result in stillbirths. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in stillbirths. The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP), led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF and endorsed by 194 WHO member states, calls […]
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Prospective Evaluation of the Country Leadership Program

This report provides a thorough evaluation and detailed results of the Country Leadership Program (CLP), highlighting the outputs and outcomes of the program across its various editions since 2022. It offers a global analysis of all editions, along with comparative analyses between participating countries, to elucidate the unique challenges and specificities of each iteration. This […]
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Chad: Country Leadership Program Retreat Report

Chad CLP Retreat Report This report presents the insights and outcomes of the Chad National Leadership Workshop, focusing on the pivotal role of transformational leadership in enhancing the healthcare system. It emphasizes the importance of effective communication, capacity building, multisectoral collaboration, and data quality improvement for informed decision-making. The workshop outlined key action points and […]
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Somalia: Country Leadership Program Evaluation Package

Somalia CLP Retreat Report This report details the outcomes of the Country Leadership Program (CLP) in Somalia, emphasizing its role as part of a comprehensive GFF initiative. The document captures insights from a multi-stakeholder retreat that included representatives from government, civil society, international organizations, and the private sector. Key outcomes include increased participant knowledge, strengthened […]
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Somalia, Chad and Burkina Faso: Evaluation Findings: Country Leadership Program

This document presents the evaluation findings from the CLP initiatives in Somalia, Chad, and Burkina Faso. It highlights the program’s impact on leadership development, governance structures, and evidence-based policy-making. Additionally, it discusses the systemic integration of health interventions with broader economic and developmental policies, promoting a holistic public health approach. Key outcomes include strengthened leadership […]
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Guatemala: Country Leadership Program Evaluation Package

Guatemala Evaluation Findings The evaluation findings from the Guatemala edition of the CLP program highlight several key areas of impact and progress. The program achieved significant advancements in integrating normative and participatory governance, leading to heightened stakeholder engagement and the creation of actionable leadership tools. The emphasis on evidence-based decision-making strengthened data use, enhancing multisectoral […]
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Zambia: Evaluation Package: Country Leadership Program

Zambia Evaluation Findings This Summary details the Zambia edition of the Country Leadership Program, highlighting the program’s transformative impact on leadership development. It outlines significant systemic and organizational changes resulting from CLP’s data-driven approach, demonstrating the sustainability of its outcomes. Key findings emphasize enhanced stakeholder engagement and collaboration, along with notable advancements in curriculum development […]
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Nigeria: Country Leadership Program Evaluation Package

Nigeria Evaluation Findings This Summary provides a comprehensive overview of the CLP’s impact on leadership development and organizational effectiveness in Nigeria. It highlights the transformative personal leadership growth, the systemic changes, and the improvements in collaboration. The document underscores the program’s sustainability and details enhanced effectiveness in Country Platform, partner alignment, and collaborative leadership capacity, […]
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Country Leadership Program Evaluation Package

This package offers the main findings from a comprehensive evaluation of the Country Leadership Program (CLP), presenting outputs and outcomes across various editions, including both completed and ongoing iterations. Additionally, the package includes related documents linked throughout the main report and in sections dedicated to each country’s CLP, enhancing understanding of implementation processes, assessing program […]
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The GFF Data Portal : An Overview

The GFF online Data Portal has been developed in close collaboration with GFF partner countries to provide transparent, user-friendly access to RMNCAH-N, health systems, and financing data for 36 countries to help facilitate use of the data for decision making related to policy, planning, and implementation purposes. This presentation provides an overview of the GFF […]
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Handbook on Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems: Communication for Development

The present Handbook on Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems: Communication for Development provides guidance and assistance to countries to help them to strategically design and carry out evidence-based and measurable communication for development activities in support of a comprehensive improvement programme of civil registration, vital statistics and identity management systems. It is […]
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Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: Management, Operation and Maintenance

The present Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: Management, Operation and Maintenance, Rev. 1, has been developed as a companion volume to the Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Rev. 3, published in 2014.a It aims to provide guidance and assistance to national authorities in establishing a holistic system of civil […]
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Monitoring and Action for Gender and Equity (MAGE)

MAGE contains a gender tools library, gender data portals, and other resources. Search for tools to help you integrate gender into your work, including monitoring and evaluation processes, and explore data portals specific to gender or with a gender component.
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Building High-Quality Health Systems to Improve Nutrition Services for Women and Children : Policy and Implementation Considerations

This brief provides an overview of a high-quality health systems approach for improved nutrition outcomes. It also gives examples of how the World Bank and Global Financing Facility (GFF) have supported country-led efforts and country leadership in health system strengthening and explains how these investments are helping countries lay some of the needed foundations for […]
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Pharmaceutical Framework Contracting in Liberia: A Knowledge and Learning Exploratory Study

This document presents the results of and lessons learned from an assessment of Liberia’s “Pharmaceutical Framework Contract (PFC)” – a public-private partnership approach to strengthen and contribute to resilient and sustainable logistics’ and supply chain management (LSCM cycle) by defining appropriate quality requirements for essential products, quantifying needs, sourcing, planning, and conducting procurement processes, and […]
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Tool Guide: Implementation Research and Evaluation

Through the GFF’s Implementation Research and Evaluation (IR&E) Strategy, the GFF aims to support countries to strengthen their own IR&E processes and systems for generating and using evidence while advancing a country-led learning and improvement agenda. This activity guide is intended to serve as a tool for GFF country teams to work with World Bank […]
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Gender Analysis Toolkit for Health Systems

The purpose of the Gender Analysis Toolkit is to provide research questions to guide data collection when performing a project-level gender analysis. The Toolkit provides illustrative questions related to the five domains described in USAID’s Automated Directive System 205, which are: 1) Laws, regulations, and institutional practices; 2) Cultural norms and beliefs; 3) Gender roles, […]
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How to develop a Theory of Change on RMNCAH for GFF-supported countries

This presentation complements the presentation entitled “What is a theory of change ?”, further (i) clarifying the objectives of developing a TOC; (ii) defining the scope and focus; (ii) guiding decisions pertaining to who should be involved; and (iv) detailing key steps for developing a TOC.
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What is a theory of change ?

This presentation defines the nature and purpose of a theory of change, and illustrates its definition with a simple and concrete example.
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Health Resource Tracking Partner Alignment and Cross-Country Learning Exchange Summary Report

In December 2022, the Government of Rwanda and the Global Health Resource Tracking Implementing Partners Group supported a Health Resource Tracking Partner Alignment and Cross-Country Learning Exchange Workshop. The aim of the workshop was to strengthen country-owned health resource tracking to inform government health priorities. The workshop brought together 8 countries, development partners and technical […]
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Country assessment guide: the health financing progress matrix

This document provides detailed advice in support of implementation of version 2.0 of the Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) released in December 2020. The HFPM is WHO’s standardized qualitative approach to assessing country health financing systems, and comprises two stages. Stage 1 provides a descriptive landscape of the different coverage schemes and programmes in the […]
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Example: Country Newsletter : Nigeria Quarterly RMNCAEH+N Newsletter

This newsletter was produced produced by the Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria in July 2022. Its primary purpose is to update government entities at national and sub-national levels, civil society, development partners and the private sector about RMNCAEH+N progress in Nigeria. This issue particularly provides updates on Nigeria’s Investment Case for Reproductive, Maternal, New-born, […]
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Health Resource Tracking Partner Alignment and Cross-Country Learning Exchange Summary

In December 2022, the Health Resource Tracking Partners Group held a Health Resource Tracking Partner Alignment and Cross-Country Learning Exchange Workshop. The aim of the workshop was to strengthen country-owned health resource tracking to inform country health priorities. The workshop brought together 8 countries, development partners (WHO, BMGF, GFTAM, GAVI, UNAIDS, PEPFAR, OECD) and technical […]
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Developing an Investment Case Results Framework based on the Theory of Change

This presentation covers the (i) steps needed to develop a results framework can be developed for the Investment Case; (2) provides checklists for a fit-for-purpose Results Framework; (3) addresses the development of monitoring and evaluation, health information system strengthening and data use activities and plans; and (4) resources.  
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WHO E-Learning: Inequality monitoring in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

Inequities in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) throughout the world mean that certain population subgroups have systematically worse health outcomes and poorer access to services and interventions. Addressing inequities in SRMNCAH is central to achieving universal health coverage, protecting human rights, advancing gender equality, combating discrimination and improving the social determinants […]
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Health Equity Assessment Toolkit

The Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus) is a software application that facilitates the assessment of health inequalities. Inequalities can be assessed through disaggregated data and summary measures of health inequality, visualized in interactive graphs, maps and tables. Results can be exported and saved in different formats. The toolkit is organized around two […]
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The Health Sector in Civil Registration: Options and Methods to Increase Registration of Live Births, Stillbirths and Deaths

The purpose of this guidance is to help civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system stakeholders increase rates of vital event registration. Options and guidance are provided to improve the quality and timeliness of civil registration information by leveraging opportunities available in and with the health sector, including infrastructure and well-established data collection practices. The […]
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The Single Contract in the Health Sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo 

This Knowledge and Learning Case Study focuses on the factors that either facilitated or inhibited the introduction, adoption and implementation of the single contract in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) to inform in-country implementation and expansion efforts as well as potential replication in other countries. Focusing on the intermediary level of DRC’s health system, it […]
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Guinea: Investment case for the reduction of maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent mortality (2020-2024)

Maternal, neonatal, and child mortality is still a major public health problem in several developing countries. In Guinea, despite having achieved some progress as per the 2018 demographic survey, the level of impact indicators remains very concerning. In order to contribute towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Government of Guinea, through the […]
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Improving Health Financing to Accelerate Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage

Key Messages Since the inception of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF), supporting health financing reforms to achieve universal health coverage has been a critical part of the GFF value proposition. The domestic resource utilization and mobilization (DRUM) window, approved by the Trust Fund Committee (TFC) in 2019, is intended to […]
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Considerations for Monitoring School Health and Nutrition Programs

By. Linda Schultz and Julie Ruel-Bergeron School health and nutrition (SHN) interventions are among the most ubiquitous public health investments and comprise a key mechanism for reaching populations that are otherwise difficult to reach through the health system. Despite the critical role of monitoring these multisectoral programs to enable data-informed adaptive programming, information to guide program […]
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Strengthening Public Financial Management Systems for Better Nutrition Results: Budget Tagging, Tracking and Evaluation in Indonesia

This report describes experiences and lessons learned from Indonesia’s successful implementation of tracking and performance evaluation of national spending on priority nutrition interventions. Budget tagging, tracking and evaluation is an option that can be implemented in a very basic form that is in accordance with existing laws and public financial management systems. In Indonesia, it […]
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Competent and defcient provision of childbirth services: a descriptive observational study assessing the quality of intrapartum care in two provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Background: A majority of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) give birth in a health facility, but maternal and newborn mortality remains high. In rural areas, the quality of facility-based delivery care is often low. This study examines clinical quality of intrapartum care in two provinces of the DRC. Methods: We observed […]
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GFF Nutrition Road Map

This Nutrition Roadmap outlines GFF’s commitment to integrate nutrition into universal health coverage and drive greater action toward ending malnutrition. By 2025, the GFF Nutrition Road Map will: Catalyze more and better financing for nutrition by committing up to 30 percent of GFF country investments and launching a financing tool to attract private sector investment for nutrition outcomes. Improve accountability for nutrition financing by supporting at least […]
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Improving the Wellbeing of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries

This report summarizes the state of the evidence and provides policy guidance on interventions that have sought to (1) increase educational attainment, (2) delay childbearing, and/or (3) delay marriage for adolescent girls in developing countries. We focus on these three outcomes for a number of reasons. First, it is believed that altering these outcomes can […]
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Monitoring Essential Health Services in Nigeria: State Profiles

Disruptions to essential health services have been estimated and shared at the national level since the start of the pandemic. This document represents the first attempt to demonstrate the impacts of COVID-19 on essential health services at the subnational level. The purpose of these state profiles is to facilitate conversations with policymakers and promote translation […]
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A Guiding Framework for Nutrition Public Expenditure Reviews

The main purpose of this Guiding Framework document is to present the key elements of a Nutrition Public Expenditure Review (NPER) and offer guidance, practical steps, and examples on carrying out an NPER. It targets a wide-ranging audience, including country nutrition policy makers, development partners (DPs), government technical staff, and advocates and practitioners who are […]
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Positioning Nutrition within Universal Health Coverage: Optimizing Health Financing Levers

Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) is a top global priority, and nutrition actions are a critical part of meeting that goal. When delivered within key windows of opportunity to improve health throughout the life-course, essential nutrition actions play an important role in reducing the burden of disease and preventing permanent physical and cognitive impairments, ultimately […]
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Operationalizing Multisectoral Nutrition Programs to Accelerate Progress : A Nutrition Governance Perspective

Malnutrition continues to be one of the world’s most critical health and human development challenges, threatening countries’ Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given the complex, multifactorial, and interlinked determinants of nutritional status and well-being, multisectoral nutrition programming has been widely promoted as the most effective way […]
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Improving Quality of Nutrition Services in Indonesia’s Health Sector

This report analyzes the opportunities to improve the quality of frontline nutrition interventions in Indonesia’s health sector as an element of achieving the National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (2018–2021) (StraNas Stunting) goals. It uses a framework adapted from the Lancet Global Health Commission’s report on HighQuality Health Systems in the  sustainable Development Goals Era, which […]
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Political Economy of Direct Health Facility Financing in Tanzania

This Knowledge and Learning Case Study focuses on the political economy that led to the introduction, adoption, and implementation of Direct Health Facility Financing (DHFF) in Tanzania. It highlights lessons learned and challenges faced, and the unique steps taken to address them.
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Alignement of Performance-Based Financing in Health with Government Budget

Performance-based financing (PBF) is the transfer of funds to health facilities so they can provide a pre-agreed set of services according to appropriate standards of quality and administration. These initiatives have introduced a wide set of reforms, including in provider autonomy, access to financial services, flexibility on the utilization of funds, a performance orientation on […]
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Performance-based Financing versus “Unconditional” Direct Facility Financing - False Dichotomy?

By Sophie Witter, Maria Paola Bertone, Karin Diaconu, and Olga Bornemisza A debate about how best to finance essential health care in low- and middle-income settings has been running for decades, with public health systems often failing to provide reliable and adequate funding for primary health care in particular. Since 2000, many have advocated and experimented with performance-based financing as […]
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Making the Case for Health: A Messaging Guide for Domestic Resource Mobilization

Making the Case for Health is a compilation of messages and related practical country examples that build off of the concept of HPHF, integrate human capital concepts, and can be used to facilitate communication across health and finance sectors to make the case for investment in health as a way to achieve health sector objectives, […]
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Policy Brief - Governance: Institutionalization of Results-based Financing in Zimbabwe 

This brief discusses the evolution of RBF governance mechanisms that resulted in institutionalization of RBF in the Ministry of Health and Child Care and Government of Zimbabwe structures. The brief discusses the (i) evolution of governance institutional arrangements; (ii) implications of RBF governance institutionalization on pre-existing institutional arrangements, roles, and responsibilities at centralized and decentralized […]
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Case Study: Institutionalization of Results-Based Financing in Zimbabwe

The purpose of the Knowledge & Learning Case Study and the accompanying policy notes are to share Zimbabwe’s experience with the Institutionalization of Results Based Financing in Zimbabwe so that other countries can learn from it. In 2011, the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ), in collaboration with the World Bank, initiated Results Based Financing (RBF) in […]
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Alignment of Performance-Based Financing in Health with the Government Budget : A Principle-Based Approach

This paper develops a conceptual framework for how to think about aligning Performance-Based Financing (PBF) principles with Public Financial Management (PFM) structures; offers a set of diagnostic questions for an assessment; and helps guide an analyst through the process of developing a reform roadmap, considering country context. As a discussion paper, it also aims to […]
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Parliamentarian Guide on Universal Health Coverage (UHC)

The Parliamentarian Guide on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a politically neutral capacity-building resource that enables members of parliament to focus and reflect on what they can do within their mandate to advance the objectives of key global health policy frameworks. It is designed to encourage political responsiveness to health and health-related concepts and seeks […]
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of the decentralized facility financing and performance-based financing program in Nigeria

Nigeria piloted decentralized facility financing (DFF) and performance-based financing (PBF) programs under the Nigeria State Health Investment Project (NSHIP), funded by the World Bank. It aimed to increase the utilization and quality of MCH services. Although many low- and middle-income countries have launched or piloted DFF and/or PBF like programs and conducted impact evaluation, very […]
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GFF Logic Model

The GFF’s logic model and theory of change serve as a roadmap to guide how to affect and measure sustainable change in each GFF partner country. The model provides the basis for centralized data collection
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GFF Country Implementation

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for effective implementation of the GFF process in-country...

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