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Is Kenya’s New Digital Health Act the Key to Smarter Health Spending?

Health purchasing, one of the functions of health financing systems, involves allocating pooled funds to health providers to deliver health services to the population. Purchasing can be passive or strategic […]

Key Messages from Leveraging Data For Decision Making In Strategic Health Purchasing: Navigating Political Economy And Capacity

Webinar series 1. Introduction This webinar held on 24th July 2024, is the second in a two-part series focusing on the utilization of data for decision-making in strategic health purchasing […]

Addressing Fragmentation in Health Financing in Sub-Saharan Africa – Are Solutions Possible?

As countries worldwide strive for Universal Health Coverage (UHC), there is a deepened desire and commitment to ‘leave no one behind’. This means that everyone, regardless of their socio-economic status, […]

The Coaching Approach for Health Financing Reforms: Insights from Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda and Burkina Faso

Overview SPARC – a resource hub hosted by Amref Health Africa with technical support from Results for Development (R4D) – aims to strengthen strategic purchasing capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa by […]

Lessons from Tanzania’s Direct Health Facility Financing: A Blueprint for Malawi

Introduction The Government of Malawi is committed to improving healthcare delivery and achieving universal health coverage (UHC). As part of this commitment, the Ministry of Health (MoH), Malawi has identified […]

How can Public Purchasers Contract Private Providers Successfully? Lessons from Kenya and Ghana

Background Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has been a key health system target since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Moving towards UHC requires countries to reform their health […]

Private Provider Contracting Cross-Learning Session Key Messages

Countries: Ghana and Ethiopia Date: 17th February 2023 Background SPARC conducted a capacity-development session where it brought together researchers, policymakers and experts in private provider contracting from Ghana, Kenya and […]

Private Provider Contracting Cross-Learning Session Key Messages

Countries: Kenya and Ethiopia Date: 31st January 2023 Despite the benefits that accrue from contracting private providers, countries still face challenges in tapping into them due to inadequate capacity in […]

Leveraging on Provider Payment Mechanisms for Universal Health Coverage: Lessons from Kenya

Globally, countries are increasingly reforming their health systems as efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) intensifies. Although system-wide health sector reforms are required, especially in developing countries, there is […]

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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…