Health Financing

Lack of resource mapping and coordination for financing can lead to duplication of efforts; meanwhile, ineffective use of public financial management mechanisms often results in a lack of agile resources and sufficient absorption capacity; particularly at the frontlines. This remains a major challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. This workstream aims to help countries re-orient their budget processes and health financing arrangements so that they are better positioned to sustain the capacity to prevent, address and respond to health threats in the short, medium, and longer term while maintaining essential services.

Further, this workstream will assist countries in:

• Identifying and prioritizing where to invest most efficiently and with the greatest impact.

• How to mobilize and make resources available to deploy tools.

• Provide guidance and tools for rapid implementation of resource; mapping and expenditure tracking to support policy adaptation, safeguarding funding for the continuation of essential health services and bolster accountability.

• Learning and knowledge sharing (using COVID-19 experience to advise on health investment).

LIST OF RESOURCES:

•  Resources Portal on Public Financial Management for Health

•  Costing and funding for vaccine introduction (CVIC TOOL)

•  COVID-19 Funds in Response to the Pandemic

•  COVID-19 vaccination: Costing and Financing in low-income countries and lower-middle-income countries

•  COVID-19 vaccination financing and budgeting Q&A

•  E-Learning Course on Cross-Programmatic Efficiency Analysis

•  If you’re not ready, you need to adapt: lessons for managing public finances from the COVID-19 response

•  Improving efficiency across health programmes

•  No calm after the storm: time to retool country PFM systems in the health sector

•  Why PFM is Key for the Effective Roll Out of COVID-19 Vaccines