R4D is identifying innovative approaches to financing global health R&D that reduce barriers and risk in the development of new health technologies. New and improved products are needed to reduce the burden of disease, but creating these products requires difficult long-term scientific efforts, with uncertain return on investment.

The Ministry of Health, with support from the joint IFC/World Bank Health in Africa Initiative, launched the Country Assessment on July 20th, 2009. At present the R4D study team is conducting a large-scale review of the Ghanaian private health sector, with the ultimate goal of offering concrete, actionable recommendations on effectively harnessing the potential of private providers of health services.

The Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health (MLI) brings together expertise in leadership development and specialized technical areas needed to design and successfully make and implement health sector policy. As a technical partner in MLI, R4D is providing technical assistance focused on improvements in equitable financing and donor harmonization in Ethiopia, Mali, Nepal, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.

The Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) strengthens the capacity of independent monitoring organizations (IMOs) in developing countries to promote improvements in social sector public spending and better hold their governments accountable for expenditure decisions and actions.