About this program
Low and Middle Income (LMICs) countries have invested significant financial and intellectual capital to support progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) and how to finance it. These countries have been instrumental in bringing evidence to the issue of purchasing PHC, including through performance-based financing (PBF) systems. These systems attempted, on the one hand, to ensure the availability of resources at the health facility level and, on the other hand, to ensure that frontline providers were incentivized to deliver the right amount of the right services, while maintaining quality of care. As evidence and policy guidance increasingly points to the need to integrate purchasing mechanisms into national health financing systems, it has become important to understand what has worked and what has not, and how to move forward to support strategic purchasing of health services for UHC. However, each country is at a different stage of its commitment to procurement approaches. It is therefore important to design a workshop that adapts to this diversity.
The GFF, World Bank, JLN and WHO have designed a modular curriculum tailored to each country’s context to support this thinking on strategic purchasing.