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SUMMARY:Findings from Strategic Purchasing Mapping in Burkina Faso: Drivers of Progress\, Challenges and Recommendations’ from 3 pm GMT | 4 pm WAT | 6 pm EAT. #SPARCchat 15
DESCRIPTION:Broadly\, strategic purchasing is the efficient use of limited resources to deliver maximum health outcomes for everyone. It involves the use of information to make purchasing decisions\, including what to buy\, who to buy from and how to pay. Strategic purchasing explores ways to provide quality healthcare services to priority populations\, especially the most vulnerable and needy\, using limited resources. Burkina Faso has made progress in strategic health purchasing in its Gratuité program and community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes by prioritizing services through explicit benefit packages\, contracting with providers\, and introducing output-based provider payment that links payment to service delivery objectives. Various forms of provider performance monitoring are used\, and Gratuité involves national and international nongovernmental organizations in auditing provider claims for accountability and transparency. This Twitter chat will explore Burkina Faso’s progress and challenges\, and recommendations made to improve strategic purchasing in light of the current status of purchasing functions in the country.
URL:https://sparc.africa/event/findings-from-strategic-purchasing-mapping-in-burkina-faso-drivers-of-progress-challenges-and-recommendations-from-3-pm-gmt-4-pm-wat-6-pm-eat-sparcchat-15/
CATEGORIES:Twitter Chat
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SUMMARY:February Twitter Chat: ‘The Role of Community Participation in Strategic Purchasing Interventions'
DESCRIPTION:What is the role of communities in Strategic Health Purchasing interventions? Are there avenues to inform the community about their rights\, obligations and entitlements? Join us on February 9th as we discuss this and much more.
URL:https://sparc.africa/event/february-twitter-chat-the-role-of-community-participation-in-strategic-purchasing-interventions/
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CATEGORIES:Twitter Chat
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20201110T180000
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SUMMARY:‘Enhancing Accountability Through Provider Contracts - How Provider Contracts Can Be Used To Align Provider Behaviour and Incentivize Quality Health Services’
DESCRIPTION:Africa needs to advance on its implementation of strategic health purchasing (SHP). Join us for our #SPARCchat VIII as we discuss how provider contracts can be used to align provider behaviour and incentivize quality health services.
URL:https://sparc.africa/event/enhancing-accountability-through-provider-contracts-how-provider-contracts-can-be-used-to-align-provider-behaviour-and-incentivize-quality-health-services/
LOCATION:Twitter
CATEGORIES:Twitter Chat
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SUMMARY:Advancing Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa – Exploring the Value of Involving Technical and Political Stakeholders
DESCRIPTION:As countries continue to make incremental progress on strategic health purchasing (SHP)\, it is increasingly important to measure and track their advancement as well as the system effects and results of their progress. SPARC’s technical partners populated the SHP progress mapping framework with baseline data for their countries\, and this work culminated in an in-person convening held between January 21 – 23\, 2020. \n\n\n\nThe SHP progress mapping framework is a tool that documents the SHP functions\, required SHP organizational capacities\, and related governance arrangements. It aims to identify how these SHP functions and capabilities are used as levers to improve resource allocation and accountability for quality health services\, as well as appropriate incentives to purchasers\, providers and consumers of health services. \n\n\n\nThis upcoming Twitter chat is part of a series to synthesize and discuss lessons and emerging themes across countries that participated in SPARC’s first progress mapping activity to answer questions on what works and why. In our first series\, we will be looking at unpacking the progress of strategic health purchasing in Africa and share knowledge on the importance of involving technical and political stakeholders in strategic purchasing reforms.
URL:https://sparc.africa/event/advancing-strategic-health-purchasing-in-africa-exploring-the-value-of-involving-technical-and-political-stakeholders/
LOCATION:Twitter
CATEGORIES:Twitter Chat
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20200908T180000
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SUMMARY:COVID-19 Response – A Global Perspective with Lessons from Africa on Strategic Health Purchasing.
DESCRIPTION:We shall be hosting our 6th edition of #SPARCchat. The topic of discussion will be “COVID-19 Response – A Global Perspective with Lessons from Africa on Strategic Health Purchasing. Our SPARCchat VI panelists are: \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Otoo\, Senior Fellow\, Results for Development\n\n\n\nNathaniel Otoo is a Health Systems & Public Policy Consultant and a Senior Fellow at Results for Development Institute. He was the founding Executive Director of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre (SPARC) hosted at Amref Health Africa in Nairobi\, Kenya. He has over 11-years of work experience in health insurance implementation and served as CEO of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Authority from 2015 to 2017. Nathaniel has contributed to and supported numerous global\, regional and local UHC activities and events. A founding member of the JLN\, and later its first convener\, Nathaniel is a member the Duke University Launch & Scale Speedometer Advisory Board. He also serves on several other boards. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nCheryl Cashin\, Managing Director\, Results for Development\n\n\n\nCheryl Cashin\, PhD\, is a managing director at Results for Development in the global health practice. In that role she co-leads a portfolio of more than 20 projects and initiatives in global health systems\, and she serves on R4D’s executive team. Dr. Cashin has led several initiatives at R4D that aim to build new models of support for countries to address complex health system issues. She designed the Provider Payment Mechanisms technical initiative of the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) and has led the initiative since it was launched in 2011\, and she is currently leading R4D’s technical support to Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) in partnership with Amref Health Africa. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nDr Nkechi Olalere\, Executive Director\, SPARC\n\n\n\nDr. Nkechi Olalere is the Executive Director of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) and steers the organization’s vision of empowering countries with knowledge and practical tools to make access to affordable and quality health care a reality for all.  \n\n\n\nShe joined SPARC from the Clinton Health Access Initiative\, Inc. (CHAI) where she served as the Regional Technical Advisor\, supporting CHAI Sustainable Health Financing teams and their government partners in East and West Africa. Recently\, she also led CHAI’s support to the Rwanda Social Security Board as the Technical Advisor to the Community Based Health Insurance Scheme where she spearheaded various reforms. \n\n\n\nNkechi has over sixteen years’ experience in health financing implementation and before joining the development sector\, she served at different times\, as both start-up and turn-around C-suite executive in various health insurance firms operating the National Health Insurance Scheme and private health insurance plans in Nigeria.
URL:https://sparc.africa/event/covid-19-response-a-global-perspective-with-lessons-from-africa-on-strategic-health-purchasing/
CATEGORIES:Twitter Chat
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