Resources


Improving Health Budget Execution: Learning from Country Experience

March 23, 2023

This learning brief presents key learnings from a review of the literature to identify examples of successful MOH efforts that have led to increased health budget execution, learning exchange meetings, and country-specific TA support.

Transforming PHC Delivery and Financing Through Primary Care Networks

This paper highlights the process for developing this learning community and some of the key learnings on how to successfully implement PCNs. Furthermore, it provides key recommendations for country policymakers, practitioners, and development partners based on lessons from the PHCPI COP.

Making Explicit Choices on the Path to UHC: Guide for Health Benefits Package Revision

December 13, 2022

The JLN Guide for Health Benefits Package Revision aims to support practitioners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to revise their HBPs, while responding to changing disease burdens, fluctuating budgets, and the emergence of new services and health technologies, and to correct for implementation challenges.

Negotiated Solutions for Purchasing High-Cost Medicines: A Practitioner’s Guide

September 29, 2022

Across the globe, decision makers at all levels of the health care system agree that patients should be given rapid access to innovative medicines that target life-threatening diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, and hepatitis C. Governments face increasing amounts of pressure to introduce new technologies because of shifting and evolving health challenges. The goal of this Practitioner’s Guide is to provide countries new to MEAs with an insider perspective. It is hoped that the contents of this Guide will lift the veil on the nature of these negotiations and equip countries with the strategies and know-how they need, to successfully negotiate similar agreements.

Mini-Guide: Fundamentals of Contract Management of Private Sector Healthcare Providers

September 13, 2022

This Mini-Guide was produced by the Joint Learning Network on Universal Health Coverage’s Virtual Learning Exchange on the Private Sector. It distills the key lessons, frameworks, and case study that were co-produced during the course of the ‘Contract Management’ workstream of the learning exchange. The primary aim of this mini-guide is to build a foundational understanding among public payers and governments about how to monitor, manage, and enforce contracts for subsidized healthcare services with private healthcare providers.