The African Collaborative for Health Financing Solutions (ACS) was a five-year, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project that supports sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries advance their universal health coverage (UHC) agenda. More specifically, ACS works with countries to smoothen their march towards UHC around the core functional areas below:
- Continuous Demand Assessment
- Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
- Strengthen Accountability Mechanisms
- Promote Continuous Shared Learning
- Provide Health Financing Technical Support
Due to the inherently demand-driven nature of the ACS approach, project activities and outcomes are likely to vary across different locations and time. While ACS is guided by an overarching theory of change, there is a high potential that outcomes from the project may be unanticipated, requiring inductive methodologies to surface evidence regarding these outcomes. As the project closes in March 2022, project leadership sought to undertake an evaluation that would identify significant outcomes from the project and provide evidence and validation for how these outcomes occurred and in what context.
This evaluation report presents the methodology and findings from one evaluation of the ACS project.
