From Planning to Action: Financing Quality Across the Health Sector

Access to high-quality health care is an integral component of universal health coverage, yet challenges to creating a health system that consistently provides high-quality health care persist. Among the most persistent of challenges is health financing.



LHSS along with speakers from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Health Organization (WHO) reflected on strategies to ensure reliable funding for costing the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of a National Quality Policy and Strategy (NQPS).



Panelists from Liberia and Rwanda shared how they used NQPS to mobilize and align resources for quality. For example, Liberia registered all external funders and held regular meetings to align potential funding with the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) priority projects and health areas. In Rwanda, the MOH linked its performance-based financing and accreditation models with the same department in the ministry conducting oversight for both models.



Facilitators:

• Lisa Maniscalco, MPH, Program Management Specialist and Quality Team Lead, Office of Health Systems, Bureau for Global Health, USAID
• Morgen Stanzler, MPH, Project Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Panelists:

• Anderson Flomo, Jr., MD, MPH, National Clinical Coordinator for Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety at the Ministry of Health, Liberia
• Christine Mutaganzwa, MD, MMSc, Global Health Program Manager, Build Health International, Rwanda
• Dr. Shams B. Syed, Head of Policy and Partnerships, The Special Programme on Primary Health Care, WHO

Attendees are encouraged to read: Health Systems Strengthening Practice Spotlight: Financing Quality Across the Health Sector