Strategic Purchasing: Expectations Upon Purchasers

No country will make substantial progress towards Universal Health Coverage without a strong capacity to strategically purchase health services. As illustrated with our 2016 meeting in Rabat, the Communities of Practice want to contribute to the development of these capacities in Africa. One lesson which emerged from Rabat was the need to help countries and experts better understand what Strategic Purchasing (SP) is about. In a pair of blogposts, I suggest that mapping SP around two poles of responsibility could be helpful. In this first post, I focus on the responsibility of the purchasers. Most hyperlinks refer to power point presentations from a recent meeting in Geneva, organized by WHO. Read more here.

Publication Year:

2017

Publisher

SPARC

Author:

Bruno Meessen
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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…