East Asia & Pacific

Transparency & Accountability Program

 

Since its inception in 2006, the Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) has strengthened the capacity of independent monitoring organizations (IMOs) in low- and middle-income countries to better hold their governments accountable and to promote improvements in social sector public spending and service delivery. 

 

 

 

Main Contact: 
Caroline Poirrier
Status: 
Active

The Long-Run Costs and Financing of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia

How can Cambodia best fight its HIV/AIDS epidemic? This report examines the long-term costs and epidemiological projections of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia.

Cambodia has made exceptional progress in addressing HIV/AIDS since it first appeared in the country in 1991. At the height of the epidemic in the early 1990s, approximately 15,500 people were becoming newly infected annually. Since then, Cambodia has greatly reduced the number of new infections – to about 2,100 in 2009. In addition, 93% percent of those eligible to receive antiretroviral therapy are currently in treatment.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2010
Main Contact: 
Gabrielle Partridge
R4D Author(s): 
Richard Skolnik
R4D Author(s): 
Robert Hecht
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Joint Learning Workshop: Moving Toward Universal Health Coverage

As a first step toward the development of an ongoing, multi-country cross-learning platform, several countries and their development partners convened a joint learning workshop in Delhi, India in February 2010. The workshop brought together practitioners from six countries to share learning around the successes and problem-solve around the challenges of implementing demand-side health financing reforms to expand health coverage.

Over the past decade, a number of national or state-level reforms have been implemented by governments that are committed to expanding health coverage through “demand-side” (third-party) financing models, to reach the poorest and informal sectors of their populations.  These reforms are ambitious in their goals, but challenging to implement successfully.  Many organizations and initiatives currently provide helpful policy assistance for and generate valuable information on these new and innovative reforms.

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Active
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“Critical Choices in Financing” – Findings from AIDS2031 featured in Health Affairs

3 November, 2009

By the year 2031, the AIDS pandemic will enter its 50th year, and funding needed to fight the pandemic in developing countries could reach as much as $35 billion annually – unless wise choices are made today to spend more efficiently and focus on prevention activities that can lower the number of new infections in the future and moderate costs for treatment and other measures to mitigate the negative impacts of AIDS on individuals and their communities.

Connected Expert(s): 
David de Ferranti
Connected Expert(s): 
Farzana Muhib
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
Connected Expert(s): 
William McGreevey

Human Resources for Health: Costing the Philippine Pre-Service HRH Scale-Up Plans

This report estimates the Philippine resource requirements for scaling up the country’s workforce plans.

This report estimates the Philippine resource requirements for scaling up the country’s workforce plans.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2008
R4D Author(s): 
Alison Ion
R4D Author(s): 
Marty Makinen
Connected Project: 
Global Health Workforce Alliance
Version: 
1

aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group

aids2031 is a international consortium of partners examining the future of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Costs and Financing Working Group is focused on modeling and analyzing the long-term costs and financing of the epidemic, and examining scenarios in which major policy shifts now can improve the future expenditure and financing situation.

Over the past 25 years, AIDS has imposed a huge cost, in economic and social terms, on many countries, communities, and households around the world. At the same time, the price tag to respond fully and effectively in the areas of prevention, care and treatment, mitigation, and research has grown to tens of billions of dollars, and is continuing to increase. There have been dramatic increases in funding, but available resources are now becoming increasingly tight as the global recession adversely impacts both donor and developing countries, and as other competing priorities (e.g.

Main Contact: 
Gabrielle Partridge
Duration: 
March, 2008 - June, 2010
Status: 
Active

Transforming Health Systems Initiative (THS)

Transforming Health Systems is an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation that seeks to strengthen health systems by supporting global level analysis of policies that drive a global health systems agenda and country level work to implement catalytic demonstrations of health systems transformation. 

Until recently, global health has focused on disease- and population-specific programs while health systems have been neglected. The insufficient attention paid to the transformation of health systems and to the capacity development needed for high-performing health systems in developing countries has resulted in weakened stewardship, dysfunctional service delivery, and inequitable financing.

Main Contact: 
Donika Dimovska
Duration: 
January, 2009 - January, 2013
Status: 
Active
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Reform of How Health Care is Paid for in China: Challenges and Opportunities

This paper looks at the challenges China faces in implementing reforms to improve how health care is paid for and ways in which these challenges can be met.

This paper was published as part of a series on health system reform in China undertaken by The Lancet, Peking University Health Sciences Centre and the China Medical Board.  The paper looks at the challenges China faces in implementing reforms to improve how health care is paid for and ways in which these challenges can be met.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Journal Articles
Year Published: 
2008
Main Contact: 
David de Ferranti
R4D Author(s): 
David de Ferranti
Author(s): 
Shanlian Hu, Shenglan Tang, Yuanli Liu, Yuxin Zhao, Maria-Luisa Escobar
Connected Project: 
The Health Financing Task Force

Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability

The Strengthening Institutions Program, a joint program of the Global Development Network and R4D, aims to strengthen policy debates around public expenditure issues in developing countries by providing support to emerging think tanks to conduct analyses of spending in the health, education, and water sectors.

 

Main Contact: 
Caroline Poirrier
Status: 
Active
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