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National health planning stages:
Situation assessment
: the analysis of the current status and expected trends in a country's health and health system.
Priority setting
: the identification, balancing and ranking of priorities by stakeholders.
Identifying effective strategies
: the identification of strategies to address identified priorities.
Costing scenarios
: the estimation of cost of different scenarios, corresponding to different priorities or strategies, in the short, medium or long term.
Resource planning and budgeting:
the estimation of resource inputs (human resources, medical devices, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals and facilities) necessary to provide expected services and the elaboration of a detailed plan, expressed in formal measurable terms, to show how these resources will be acquired and used during a specific time period.
Programming and implementation:
the translation of the National Health Policy/Strategy/Plan (and in some cases its Medium-Term Expenditure Framework), into annual operational plans that form the basis for programme implementation.
Monitoring and evaluation:
the progress reviews undertaken periodically by stakeholders supported by established reactive mechanisms for corrective actions; and the performance evaluation based on a set of indicators and well defined baselines and targets.