Building Momentum for Strategic Purchasing across sub-Saharan Africa

SPARC was invited to present to The Health Financing Global Solution Group of the World Bank Group at a webinar themed, ‘Building Momentum for Strategic Purchasing across sub-Saharan Africa’

The webinar was held in light of the intense pressure that the fragile resource base of health systems in sub-Saharan Africa have been subjected to due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This made it more critical for them to prioritize reforms that will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their health spending to ensure the best outcomes with the limited resources at their disposal.

In this webinar, SPARC presented its recent work in the region, introduced the recently launched strategic purchasing policy briefs from nine countries and set the scene for future institutional collaboration.

Building Momentum for Strategic Purchasing across sub-Saharan Africa

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A message from the partners of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)

Since 2018, The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) has been a unique and significant force in supporting countries within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) in crucial areas of strategic health purchasing (SHP), Healthcare Financing as they make progress towards the realization of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals. This initiative, a collaboration between Amref Health Africa and Results for Development (R4D), has made expertise in these areas more accessible and has been instrumental in the progress of the target countries. The initiative was designed to advance policy discussions and actions that strengthen the application of strategic health purchasing to strengthen African health systems and support countries as they address foundational reforms…