Strengthening Public Financial Management in the Health Sector

This brief discusses promising practices for working with government and non-government stakeholders to strengthen health planning and budgeting at the subnational level. The practices also highlight why and how to put subnational level actors at the forefront of any reforms to improve health outcomes through resource optimization.

This Catalog allows practitioners to consider which interventions have more robust evidence bases to support their practical application, such as: enhancing worker and supervisor competencies through training, offering nonfinancial incentives for high performers, practicing task sharing to promote cost savings, implementing digital solutions to expand access to services, and reducing costs of procuring and distributing pharmaceutical products.

This report synthesizes learning from an in-depth examination of successful MOH efforts that have led to increased health budget execution. It offers a vision of good health budget execution, as well as promising practices in the areas of budget structure and processes and budget accountability.

Ce cours se concentre sur les processus utilisés par les pays pour définir les priorités en matière de santé qui se reflètent dans les politiques nationales de santé.

This analysis identified several inefficiencies related to how the financial budget and other financial resources are allocated and spent. It also presented potential actions that can improve resource allocation within the MoHSS budget and address some of the challenges identified during the analysis.

This process guide outlines an iterative process to support budgetary allocation decisions aligned with regional populations and needs as prioritized in the EHSP. The process guide proposes a broad decision-making framework that can be used to review current practices and move toward more efficient approaches in resource allocation.

This report presents findings from LHSS Vietnam's international review of diagnosis-related group contracts and provides a series of evaluations and recommendations.

This report provides a review of international experience to draw out practical and scientific approaches for both the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Vietnam Social Security (VSS) to consider. Conclusions and recommendations are provided.

This report discusses procurement and payment considerations related to the transition of first-line TB drug procurement from the central state budget to the social health insurance fund in Vietnam.

This course is an interactive, four module, online self-study course on processes used by countries to set health priorities that are reflected in national health policies. Each module allows participants to engage with the materials and reflect on their own country’s context.

In this webinar, representatives from Tanzania and Timor-Leste, along with WHO and LHSS panelists, discussed strategies for strengthening subnational public financial management systems to align with health sector needs, enhance partnerships, and improve community resource efficiency.

This brief highlights Timor-Leste's health progress over the last two decades. It provides an analysis of government expenditures and offers recommendations to improve PHC financing, budget execution, and service quality. The focus is on enhancing financial protection, increasing resource management efficiency, and ensuring sustainable investments in PHC to advance health outcomes and universal health coverage.