Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre - SPARC

17/07/2024

Join our webinar on leveraging data for strategic purchasing in Africa! Hear experts from Tanzania & Nigeria discuss using data for health financing decisions, from capacity to stakeholder engagement. Save the date: 24 July, 3:00 - 4:30 PM. Register here: https://bit.ly/3zMnenW

21/06/2023

Discover Kenya's innovative approach to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through a diverse mix of provider payment mechanisms (PPMs)! 🇰🇪 The NHIF adopts capitation for outpatient services and utilizes fee-for-service for diagnostic services like radiology. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health (MOH) employs global budgets for vertical programs and national referral hospitals. Learn more about Kenya's PPM strategies for UHC by clicking here:https://bit.ly/3MzyOW0

Globally, countries are increasingly reforming their health systems as efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) intensifies. Although

19/06/2023

Check out this blog post! 📝 We dive into a comprehensive review of provider payment mechanisms (PPMs) utilized in the state's health budget, alongside the proposed Abia State Social Health Insurance Scheme. We also provide recommendations on how to harmonize multiple and mixed PPMs for a more effective healthcare system. https://bit.ly/3go2wNL

Background Although public health expenditure is low in Nigeria, healthcare purchasing has been predominantly passive and inefficient, meaning that

15/06/2023

In March 2022, SPARC developed a policymaker’s perspective paper on strategic purchasing, which includes as a set of functions that can help achieve health system goals: specifying the benefits people are entitled to, contracting with and paying providers, and monitoring and improving provider performance to advance UHC.
Click here to read it: https://bit.ly/3Hfk90w

Strategic purchasing is part of the policy discourse on universal health coverage (UHC) and is included in strategic plans and health financing strategies as a cornerstone of UHC policies across […]

09/06/2023

Come listen to experiences from , , , , , at a half-day pre-congress session at the IHEA World Congress hosted by ThinkWell Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre - SPARC Results for Development World Health Organization (WHO) on July 9th.

07/06/2023

models are designed to incentivize providers to provide high-quality care and improve patient outcomes. They can also help to reduce healthcare costs by rewarding providers for efficiency and effectiveness.

05/06/2023

This month, we will discuss 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐬 (𝐏𝐏𝐌); methods used to transfer funds from purchasers to healthcare providers.

01/06/2023

📣 Technical Brief Alert! 📣
SPARC developed a technical brief that describes our intervention using the coaching approach in Burkina Faso for a two-year process (2020-2022). 📄
Click here to read: https://bit.ly/41ZyeXP

25/05/2023

Ever heard of public financial management? The broad objective of PFM is to achieve overall fiscal discipline, allocation of resources to priority needs, and efficient and effective allocation of public services.

22/05/2023

The coaching approach provides technical support that draws mainly on country and regional experts to “coach” and “mentor” national stakeholders as they address health systems challenges. Click here to read SPARC’s technical brief on the coaching approach in Burkina Faso: https://bit.ly/41ZyeXP

22/05/2023

Are you interested in improving your understanding of contracting? Here is a link to a technical paper byThe Rockefeller Foundation on “Provider Purchasing and Contracting Arrangements.” https://bit.ly/2I6bYaV

Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre (SPARC) is a new initiative to strengthen strategic purchasing expertise in sub-Saharan Africa and move countries closer to universal health coverage.

17/05/2023

On 17th February, SPARC hosted a second cross-learning session on private provider contracting between Ghana (which has already implemented private provider contracting) and Ethiopia, which plans to do the same. Two presentations were delivered during this session. Click here to read the key messages: https://bit.ly/3V7n3u7


Ministry of Health, Ghana Ministry of Health,Ethiopia Ethiopian Health Insurance Service

Countries: Ghana and Ethiopia Date: 17th February 2023 Background SPARC conducted a capacity-development session where it brought together researchers,