Additional resources on strategic purchasing

Assessment resource materials

Policy Briefs | Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre (SPARC)

Health Systems & Reform: Vol 8, No 2 (tandfonline.com)

Country examples

Assessing the Progress and Gaps in Strategic Health Purchasing in Kenya

Assessment of Strategic Healthcare Purchasing and Financial Autonomy in Tanzania: The Case of Results-Based Financing and Health Basket Fund

Assessment of Strategic Healthcare Purchasing Arrangements and Functions Towards Universal Coverage in Tanzania

Cameroon Strategic Purchasing Workshop Concept and Agenda

Cameroon Workshop Report

Ethiopia Data Collection Tool for Providers

Ethiopia Data Collection Tool for Purchasers

Ethiopia Proposed Roles

Ethiopia SHP and PPM Assessment Protocol

Ethiopia SHP Concept Note

Ethiopia SHP Mapping Terms of Reference

Ethiopia SHP PPM Validation Workshop Draft Agenda

Ghana SHP Policy Dialogue Concept Note

Nigeria Policy Dialogue Policy Brief

Rwanda Policy Dialogue Draft Concept Note

Rwanda Policy Dialogue Draft Invitation

Rwanda Policy Dialogue Final Letter of Invitation

Rwanda Strategic Purchasing Policy Dialogue Event Final Concept Note

Stakeholder Analysis and Mapping

Strategic Health Purchasing Progress Mapping in Cameroon: A Scoping Review

Strengthening Strategic Purchasing in Southeast Asia

Supporting Strategic Health Purchasing: A Case Study of Annual Health Budgets from General Tax Revenue and Social Health Insurance in Abia State, Nigeria

Tanzania Policy Dialogue Template

Uganda National Policy Dialogue Concept Note

Training resources

Accreditation as a path to achieving universal quality health coverage

Achieving universal health coverage goals in Thailand: the vital role of strategic purchasing

Assessing Health Provider Payment Systems: A Practical Guide for Countries Working Toward Universal Health Coverage

Characteristics and Effects of Multiple and Mixed Funding Flows to Public Healthcare Facilities on Financing Outcomes: A Case Study from Nigeria

Defining a Health Benefits Package: What are the Necessary Processes?

National Health Insurance Accreditation Pattern Among Private Healthcare Providers in Ghana

The Strategic Health Purchasing Progress Tracking Framework: A Practical Approach to Describing, Assessing, and Improving Strategic Purchasing for Universal Health Coverage

Strategic Health Purchasing in Nigeria: Investigating Governance and Institutional Capacities within Federal Tax-Funded Health Schemes and the Formal Sector Social Health Insurance Programme

WHO Health Financing Guidance No. 6: Governance for Strategic Purchasing: An Analytical Framework to Guide a Country Assessment

WHO Health Financing Working Paper No. 14: Leveraging Public Financial Management for Better Health in Africa

Why is Strategic Purchasing Critical for Universal Health Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Strategic health purchasing library

Strategic health purchasing – frameworks

Hanson, K. (2014). Resilient and Responsive Health Systems (RESYST) consortium framework: Hanson K Researching purchasing to achieve the promise of universal health coverage.

Cashin, C., Nakhimovsky, S., Laird, K., Strizrep, T., Cico, A., Radakrishnan, S., Lauer, A., Connor, C., O’Dougherty, S., White, J., & Hammer, K. (2018). Strategic health purchasing progress: A framework for policymakers and practitioners.

Mathauer, I., Dale, E., Jowett, M., & Kutzin, J. (2019). Purchasing health services for universal health coverage: How to make it more strategic?. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.

SPARC strategic health purchasing framework

Cashin, C., & Gatome-Munyua, A. (2022). The strategic health purchasing progress tracking framework: A practical approach to describing, assessing, and improving strategic purchasing for universal health coverage. Health Systems & Reform, 8(2), e2051794.

Strategic health purchasing – what is it?

Cashin, C., & Mathauer, I. Overview of strategic health purchasing: Functions and policy instruments. Paper presented at the AfHEA Pre-Conference Workshop on Strategic Purchasing.

Cashin, C., Otoo, N., & Toves, K. (2018, Feb 5,). Q&A: What is strategic purchasing for health?

Health financing

The health financing progress matrix: Country assessment guide (2020). World Health Organization.

Jowett, M., Kutzin, J., Kwon, S., Hsu, J., Sallaku, J., & Solano, J. G. (2020). Assessing country health financing systems: The health financing progress matrix. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/337938/9789240017405-eng.pdf

Provider payment methods

Langenbrunner, J. C., Cashin, C., & O’Dougherty, S. (2009). Designing and implementing health care provider payment systems : How-to manuals. World Bank.