Strategic Health Purchasing in Ethiopia: An Assessment and Strategic Actions to Improve Purchasing

Over the past decade, the Ethiopian health system has undergone a series of health financing reforms to ensure access to high-quality health services while reducing financial barriers for all Ethiopians. One of the key achievements of the reform is increased public funding for health. Despite this increase, the fiscal space remains limited to keep pace with our universal health coverage (UHC) commitments, requiring us to do more with the current financial envelope. Strategic health purchasing is an important lever in this regard because it promotes effective use of the available resources by directing health funds to priority populations, interventions, and services as well as actively creating incentives for providers to use funds equitably and in accordance with population health needs. This report examines the overall landscape of Ethiopia’s health care purchasing arrangements and identifies barriers to and opportunities for building a foundation for strategic health purchasing. It also recommends strategic actions that, when implemented together, can support Ethiopia’s move toward UHC.

Publication Year:

2022

Publisher

SPARC

Author:

Ministry of Health Ethiopia, Ethiopian Health Insurance Service
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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…