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.
The Joint Learning Network (JLN) for Universal Health Coverage brings together countries from across the globe to share experiences and challenges in implementing health financing reforms.
Over the past decade, a number of national or state-level reforms have been implemented by governments that are committed to achieving universal health coverage through “demand-side” financing models, often specifically targeting the poorest and informal sectors of their populations. While many implementing countries have not yet achieved universal health coverage, reforms are underway in countries as varied as Chile, Colombia, Estonia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
As part of our ongoing initiative to launch a Joint Learning Network on Universal Health Coverage, R4D hosted Anil Swarup, the Director General for Labour Welfare and the Joint Secretary of India’s Ministry of Labour and Employment, to speak about India’s advance toward universal health coverage through the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY) scheme. Representatives from the World Bank, IFC, PAHO, US State Department, Center for Global Development, and the USAID Health Systems 20/20 project attended the session, among others.
On February 3-5, R4D and its partners convened delegations from six countries – Ghana, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam - for a Joint Learning Workshop on Universal Health Coverage in Gurgaon, India. The three day workshop served as a forum for participants to share their experiences implementing health reforms and learn from other countries.
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.
CHMI is a global network of partners that systematically identifies, documents, and analyzes health market innovations, disseminates information about these models, and facilitates strategic linkages among entrepreneurs, funders, policymakers, and researchers. Visit http://healthmarketinnovations.org/ to use the interactive CHMI global knowledge platform.
The Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) is a global network of partners that seeks to improve the functioning of health markets in developing countries to deliver better results for the poor. CHMI works to accelerate the diffusion of Health Market Innovations, programs and policies—implemented by governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), social entrepreneurs or private companies—that have the potential to improve the way health markets operate.
R4D’s Transparency and Accountability Program, led by project coordinator Courtney Tolmie, visited New Delhi on July 21, 2009 and Kampala on July 29, 2009 to bring together its grantees from its latest grant round. Tolmie, assisted by program associate Courtney Heck, facilitated 3-day launch workshops in which grantees received technical training from experts on public expenditure tracking methodologies, discussed program goals, and met fellow participants.
The paper develops an analytical framework applied to India, Uganda, and Afghanistan for conceptualizing the governance/stewardship function within health systems and the role of government in the context of an expanded role for private service provision and financing.
The paper develops an analytical framework applied to India, Uganda, and Afghanistan— for conceptualizing the governance/stewardship function within health systems and the role of government in the context of an expanded role for private service provision and financing. The paper begins by reviewing the approaches to conceptualizing and operationalizing stewardship, drawing on recent literature, and then explores typologies of governance, with a focus on working models of engagement and collaboration between major public and private sector actors in achieving public health goals.
The State of Andhra Pradesh in India has recently taken several innovative approaches to improve access to healthcare. This report presents the major initiatives, including health insurance and contracting arrangements for health services, and describes underlying motives, challenges, and opportunities associated with the reform.
The State of Andhra Pradesh in India has recently taken several innovative approaches to improve access to healthcare. This report presents the major initiatives, including health insurance and contracting arrangements for health services, and describes underlying motives, challenges, and opportunities associated with the reform.
Recently there has been a surge of activity among Civil Society Organizations in India. This paper analyzes this development, including impact, shortcomings and challenges Indian organizations face in the years to come.
In India, a country that ranks low on the Transparency International Index and is known for high levels of corruption, there has been a recent surge of activity from Civil Society Organizations leading to a new consciousness among citizens about their role in a democracy. This paper analyzes this development in civil society, the impact it has had, what can be learned from this experience, the shortcomings to such work and the challenges facing Indian groups as they look forward to the next ten years.
