Improving Health Budget Execution: Learning from Country Experience
Date
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.
The course reviews, among other topics:
- The importance of improving budget execution for the health sector.
- What is meant by budget execution, what elements a budget execution process is comprised of and the development of a framework to improve budget execution.
- How to engage stakeholders throughout the process, with country examples and references to tools for identifying and engaging stakeholders.
- What steps and approaches can be taken to help build stakeholder buy and consensus.
Intended audience
Participants are anticipated to primarily be staff from Ministries of Health (or health practitioners and scholars) who are involved with, support or lead budget execution processes for their countries’ respective health sector.
Course modality
Self-learning course, free of charge, open to the public and without deadlines to complete it.
Duration
2 hours. The course is open and available in the Virtual Campus for Public Health. As it is a self-learning course, participants can choose when they are able to progress through the course.
Course Structure
Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Budget execution basics
Module 3: Promising practices
Module 4: Bringing it all together