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Step-by-step guide to conducting a cross-programmatic efficiency analysis

The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a diagnostic approach to enable countries to look across health programmes that are part of their health system to detect “cross-programmatic” inefficiencies.

Political economy analysis for health financing

This “Political Economy of Health Financing: How-to Guide” lays out a structured way to organize and analyze key political economy factors that can impact a health financing reform. This Guide, along with WHO’s broader programme of work on Political Economy of Health Financing Reform, explicitly recognizes the importance of political economy factors in influencing health financing reform trajectories.

How to make budgets work for health?

The primary purpose of this guidance book is to provide key health stakeholders with a better understanding of the design, implementation and monitoring of programme-based budgets in the health sector in low- and middle-income countries.

Global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis and malaria

Primary health care measurement framework and indicators: monitoring health systems through a primary health care lens

The main aim of the PHC monitoring guidance is to drive performance improvement in PHC at country level.

Strategizing national health in the 21st century: a handbook

To facilitate a National Health Strategic Plan and Policy Dialogue process that reflects a whole of society and whole of government approach that engages all stakeholders, beneficiaries, providers and the state in its design, implementation and follow-up.

Voice, agency, empowerment - handbook on social participation for universal health coverage

To provide practical guidance, anchored in conceptual clarifications, on strengthening meaningful government engagement with the population, communities, and civil society for national health policy-making.

A System Wide Approach to Analysing Efficiency across Health Programmes

Equips countries with a framework to identify and correct inefficiencies that compromise governments’ ability to improve, or at the very least sustain, the delivery of priority health services.

Continuity and coordination of care: a practice brief to support implementation of the WHO Framework on integrated people-centred health services

A practice brief to facilitate more continuity and coordination of care in the health system.

Essential public health functions, health systems and health security

Reference document

1. To provide references on WHO policy and operational perspectives of regional approaches on Essential Public Health Functions (EPHFs) and the links with the International Health Regulations (2005) and health systems strengthening.
2. To provide a glossary for use in framing discussions on resilient health systems and universal health coverage.

A System Wide Approach to Analysing Efficiency across Health Programmes

Equips countries with a framework to identify and correct inefficiencies that compromise governments’ ability to improve, or at the very least sustain, the delivery of priority health services.

Voice, agency, empowerment - handbook on social participation for universal health coverage

To provide practical guidance, anchored in conceptual clarifications, on strengthening meaningful government engagement with the population, communities, and civil society for national health policy-making.

Voice, agency, empowerment - handbook on social participation for universal health coverage

To provide practical guidance, anchored in conceptual clarifications, on strengthening meaningful government engagement with the population, communities, and civil society for national health policy-making.

Community engagement: a health promotion guide for universal health coverage in the hands of the people

To highlight the importance of five health promotion actions in the context of community engagement: (i) developing personal skills, (ii) strengthening community action, (iii) creating supportive environments, (iv) building healthy public policy, and (v) reorienting health systems.

WHO community engagement framework for quality, people-centred and resilient health services

To provide a community engagement framework for quality, integrated and people-centred health services (CEQ)

Continuity and coordination of care: a practice brief to support implementation of the WHO Framework on integrated people-centred health services

A practice brief to facilitate more continuity and coordination of care in the health system.

Working together: an integration resource guide for immunization services throughout life course

To bring together a range of relevant resources, summarize current knowledge and provide guidance on the integration of immunization with other health interventions, health policies or activities to strengthen health systems

Voice, agency, empowerment - handbook on social participation for universal health coverage

To provide practical guidance, anchored in conceptual clarifications, on strengthening meaningful government engagement with the population, communities, and civil society for national health policy-making.

Community engagement: a health promotion guide for universal health coverage in the hands of the people

To highlight the importance of five health promotion actions in the context of community engagement: (i) developing personal skills, (ii) strengthening community action, (iii) creating supportive environments, (iv) building healthy public policy, and (v) reorienting health systems.

WHO community engagement framework for quality, people-centred and resilient health services

To provide a community engagement framework for quality, integrated and people-centred health services (CEQ)

Continuity and coordination of care: a practice brief to support implementation of the WHO Framework on integrated people-centred health services

A practice brief to facilitate more continuity and coordination of care in the health system.

Working together: an integration resource guide for immunization services throughout life course

To bring together a range of relevant resources, summarize current knowledge and provide guidance on the integration of immunization with other health interventions, health policies or activities to strengthen health systems

Guidance for Health Information System Governance

To support Member States in strengthening HIS governance by providing an overview of attributes and tools for good governance in general, and for good HIS governance in particular.

Primary health care measurement framework and indicators: monitoring health systems through a primary health care lens

The main aim of the PHC monitoring guidance is to drive performance improvement in PHC at country level

WHO Monitoring and Evaluating Digital Health Interventions

To provides step-wise guidance to improve the quality and value of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts in the context of digital health interventions (commonly referred to as mHealth or eHealth interventions).

Guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes

The overall goal of this guideline is to assist national governments and national and international partners to improve the design, implementation, performance and evaluation of CHW programmes, contributing to the progressive realization of universal health coverage.

Technical Brief: Strategic Support for Human Resources for Health

To inform the strategic design and implementation of health workforce elements of Global Fund proposals and grants.

Health policy and system support to optimize CHW programmes for HIV, TB and Malaria services: an evidence guide

To provide an evidence base for national governments and their partners to design, implement and sustain effective and cost-effective HIV, TB and malaria CHW programmes.

Global strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030

The purpose of the document is to outline the vision, principles, objectives and milestones for im plementation of a global strategy for the health workforce

Community engagement: a health promotion guide for universal health coverage in the hands of the people

To highlight the importance of five health promotion actions in the context of community engagement: (i) developing personal skills, (ii) strengthening community action, (iii) creating supportive environments, (iv) building healthy public policy, and (v) reorienting health systems.

WHO community engagement framework for quality, people-centred and resilient health services

To provide a community engagement framework for quality, integrated and people-centred health services (CEQ)

Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement

To establish a common language among all stakeholders for defining community engagement principles, key actions, goals and benchmarks.

Primary health care measurement framework and indicators: monitoring health systems through a primary health care lens

The main aim of the PHC monitoring guidance is to drive performance improvement in PHC at country level

Guidance for Health Information System Governance

To support Member States in strengthening HIS governance by providing an overview of attributes and tools for good governance in general, and for good HIS governance in particular.

The Health Equity Assessment Tool

Online application

The Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT) is a software application that facilitates the assessment of within-country health inequalities.

Score for Health Data Technical Package

SCORE (Survey, Count, Optimize, Review, Enable) for Health Data Technical Package supports Member States in the effective collection, analysis, reporting and use of health data to improve population health and achieve the health-related Sustainable Development Goals.

Guidance for Health Information System Governance

To support Member States in strengthening HIS governance by providing an overview of attributes and tools for good governance in general, and for good HIS governance in particular.

Primary Health Care Systems (PRIMASYS) Case Studies

WHO Alliance for Health Systems Policy and Research

Through case study approach to inform efforts to strengthen PHC systems and improve the implementation, effectiveness, and efficiency of PHC interventions worldwide.

Participatory Action Research in health systems - A Methods Reader

Regional Network for Equity in health in East and Southern Africa (EQUINET)

Promotes understanding of the term ‘participatory action research’ (PAR) and provides information on its paradigms, methods,
application and use, particularly in health policy and systems

Implementation Research in Health: A Practical Guide

WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

To boost implementation research capacity as well as demand for implementation research that is aligned with need, and that is of particular relevance to health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Implementation research toolkit

TDR for Research on Diseases and Poverty

To facilitate practical research aimed at the optimization of interventions for improved health outcomes.

Quality Health Services planning and action

Technical resources to support planning and implementing action for quality health services.

SMART Guidelines for Interoperable Digital Content

To describe a new approach to systematize and accelerate the consistent application of recommended, life-saving interventions in the digital age.

WHO Monitoring and Evaluating Digital Health Interventions

To provide step-wise guidance to improve the quality and value of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts in the context of digital health interventions (commonly referred to as mHealth or eHealth interventions).

WHO guideline: recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening

To present recommendations on emerging digital health interventions that are contributing to health system improvements, based on an assessment of the benefits, harms, acceptability, feasibility, resource use and equity considerations.

Digital Implementation Investment Guide (DIIG)

Provides a systematic process for countries to develop a costed implementation plan for digital health within one or more health programme areas, drawing guidance from the WHO guideline–recommended digital health interventions.

Analytical guide to assess a mixed provider payment system

To inform and improve the national policy dialogue on purchasing. To assist to make the case aligning payment methods within and across purchasers as an important step towards strategic purchasing.

The Health Financing Progress Matrix: Country Assessment Guide

Assessment guide

The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) assesses health financing arrangements in a country at a point in time against a set of benchmarks, expressed in the form of nineteen desirable attributes.

Governance for strategic purchasing: An analytical framework to guide a country assessment

This document sets out an analytical framework for assessing a country’s governance arrangements for the purchasing function.

The private sector, universal health coverage and primary health care

To provide an overview of the role of the private sector in health systems in terms of providing goods and health services, particularly in primary care.

Engaging the Private Sector in Primary Health Care to Achieve Universal Health Coverage: Advice from Implementers, to Implementers

Joint Learning Network

To provide implementers with practical guidance for engaging with the private sector.

Engaging the private health service delivery sector through governance in mixed health systems

To support Member States to strengthen governance of mixed health systems and assure alignment of the private sector for UHC, to promote equity, access, quality and financial protection for the population.

Good governance for medicines: model framework

To outline a framework for good governance for medicines that can be adapted by each country according to their needs.

Towards access 2030: WHO essential medicines and health products strategic framework 2016-2030

To provide a broad vision and strategic direction to focus and reinforce WHO’s ability to help Member States achieve universal access to safe and quality-assured health products and universal health coverage.

WASH in health care facilities - Practical steps to achieve universal access to quality care

To present eight practical actions that Member States can take at the national and sub-national level to improve WASH in health care facilities.

Water and Sanitation for Health Facility Improvement Tool (WASH FIT)

WASH FIT is a multistep, iterative process to facilitate improvements in WASH services, quality and experience of care.

Core questions and indicators for monitoring WASH in health care facilities in the Sustainable Development Goals.

WHO, UNICEF, JMP

To provide guidance on survey and assessment questions and indicators that promote the development of national estimates of WASH in health care facilities and to track progress in WASH infrastructure development over time.

Guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes

The overall goal of this guideline is to assist national governments and national and international partners to improve the design, implementation, performance and evaluation of CHW programmes, contributing to the progressive realization of universal health coverage.

Health policy and system support to optimize CHW programmes for HIV, TB and Malaria services: an evidence guide

To provide an evidence base for national governments and their partners to design, implement and sustain effective and cost-effective HIV, TB and malaria CHW programmes.

Global strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030

The purpose of the document is to outline the vision, principles, objectives and milestones for im plementation of a global strategy for the health workforce

Reaching Every District Guide

To support countries to plan and implement the five components of the RED approach so as to strengthen immunization systems to sustainably and equitably increase access to and use of vaccination services (as measured by coverage rates and equity indicators).

Working together: an integration resource guide for immunization services throughout life course

To bring together a range of relevant resources, summarize current knowledge and provide guidance on the integration of immunization with other health interventions, health policies or activities to strengthen health systems

Primary Health Care Country Case Study Compendium

The primary health care (PHC) country case study compendium is a global resource that aims to enhance ease of access to PHC country case studies published across WHO, international development partners and other global stakeholders. Country cases are regularly added to the compendium.

Principles of Health Benefit Package

To define the principles guiding selection of essential health services benefit packages for universal access

Integrating Health Services; A Technical Brief

To prove a technical overview of pathwys for impoved integration in health systems and with other sectors

Essential public health functions, health systems and health security

Reference document

1. To provide references on WHO policy and operational perspectives of regional approaches on Essential Public Health Functions (EPHFs) and the links with the International Health Regulations (2005) and health systems strengthening. 2. To provide a glossary for use in framing discussions on resilient health systems and universal health coverage.

Primary health care: closing the gap between public health and primary care through integration

To describe ways in which primary care and public health can be effectively integrated to achieve population health benefits.

UHC Compendium: Health interventions for Universal Health Coverage

The UHC Compendium is a database of health services and intersectoral interventions designed to assist countries in making progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Continuity and coordination of care: a practice brief to support implementation of the WHO Framework on integrated people-centred health services

A practice brief to facilitate more continuity and coordination of care in the health system

Integrating Health Services; A Technical Brief

To prove a technical overview of pathwys for impoved integration in health systems and with other sectors

Working together: an integration resource guide for immunization services throughout life course

To bring together a range of relevant resources, summarize current knowledge and provide guidance on the integration of immunization with other health interventions, health policies or activities to strengthen health systems

Improving immunization coverage and equity- technical resources

Resource repository

This repository of key guidance, selected from the TechNet-21 Knowledge Hub, can be used by national immunization program staff and partners for improving coverage and equity of immunization services.

UHC Compendium: Health interventions for Universal Health Coverage

The UHC Compendium is a database of health services and intersectoral interventions designed to assist countries in making progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Continuity and coordination of care: a practice brief to support implementation of the WHO Framework on integrated people-centred health service

A practice brief to facilitate more continuity and coordination of care in the health system.

WHO guideline: recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening

To present recommendations on emerging digital health interventions that are contributing to health system improvements, based on an assessment of the benefits, harms, acceptability, feasibility, resource use and equity considerations.

Guide to iCCM PSM planning for Global Fund Grants

Proposes strategies to address challenges that may arise when integrating commodities and PSM activities and implementing iCCM programs that are co-funded by the Global Fund and other donors.

Good governance for medicines: model framework

To outline a framework for good governance for medicines that can be adapted by each country according to their needs

Towards access 2030: WHO essential medicines and health products strategic framework 2016-2030

To provide a broad vision and strategic direction to focus and reinforce WHO’s ability to help Member States achieve universal access to safe and quality-assured health products and universal health coverage.

Community engagement: a health promotion guide for universal health coverage in the hands of the people

To highlight the importance of five health promotion actions in the context of community engagement: (i) developing personal skills, (ii) strengthening community action, (iii) creating supportive environments, (iv) building healthy public policy, and (v) reorienting health systems.

Voice, agency, empowerment - handbook on social participation for universal health coverage

To provide practical guidance, anchored in conceptual clarifications, on strengthening meaningful government engagement with the population, communities, and civil society for national health policy-making.

WHO community engagement framework for quality, people-centred and resilient health services

To provide a community engagement framework for quality, integrated and people-centred health services (CEQ)

Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement

To establish a common language among all stakeholders for defining community engagement principles, key actions, goals and benchmarks.

National Immunization Strategy costing application (NIS.COST)

Tool designed for easy use and better integration with the national immunization strategic plan and the overall budgeting process.

The Health Financing Progress Matrix: Country Assessment Guide

Assessment guide

The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) assesses health financing arrangements in a country at a point in time against a set of benchmarks, expressed in the form of nineteen desirable attributes.

A System Wide Approach to Analysing Efficiency across Health Programmes

Equips countries with a framework to identify and correct inefficiencies that compromise governments’ ability to improve, or at the very least sustain, the delivery of priority health services.

The Health Financing Progress Matrix: Country Assessment Guide

Assessment guide

Description: The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) assesses health financing arrangements in a country at a point in time against a set of benchmarks, expressed in the form of nineteen desirable attributes.

National Immunization Strategy

Planning document that focuses on a strategic period of 5 years, defining the immunization vision, specific objectives, priority strategies and costed set of interventions.

A System Wide Approach to Analysing Efficiency across Health Programmes

Equips countries with a framework to identify and correct inefficiencies that compromise governments’ ability to improve, or at the very least sustain, the delivery of priority health services.

Developing a national health financing strategy: a reference guide

To support countries to develop a comprehensive health financing strategy which supports progress towards universal health coverage.

WHO and partners

To provide access to information on the global partnership for UHC2030 ( a multi stakeholder platform for universal health coverage).

National Immunization Strategy

Planning document that focuses on a strategic period of 5 years, defining the immunization vision, specific objectives, priority strategies and costed set of interventions.

Immunization for Primary Health Care (Framework for Action)

WHO, UNICEF and partners

This PHC framework, and the promising practices highlighted, are intended to showcase opportunities to leverage immunization to contribute to robust and strengthened PHC.

Universal Health Coverage Partnership

WHO and partners

The purpose of the UHC Partnership is to promote UHC, aligned with SDG target 3.8, by supporting policy dialogue and providing technical assistance in order to enable governments to strengthen health systems using a primary health care approach. The purpose of the website is to provide information and access to information and reports on acrtivities of the UHC partnership

Immunisation Agenda 2030

To outline the case for Immunisation, to define a strategy for the future and to present a framework for action.

Health in all policies: Helsinki statement. Framework for country action

A “starter’s kit” for applying Health in All Policies (HiAP) in decision-making and implementation at national and subnational levels, and which can be adapted for use in different country contexts and at the regional and global levels.

Primary health care measurement framework and indicators: monitoring health systems through a primary health care lens

The main aim of the PHC monitoring guidance is to drive performance improvement in PHC at country level.

The Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT)

Online application

The Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT) is a software application that facilitates the assessment of within-country health inequalities.

WHO Guidance for Situation Analysis of Immunization Programme Performance

To enable national immunization programmes to conduct these situational analyses or desk reviews in a systematic way to identify and prioritise critical programme barriers, highlight programme success, and identify evidence gaps to be addressed.

IA2030: Immunization for Primary Health Care (Framework for Action)

WHO, UNICEF and partners

This PHC framework, and the promising practices highlighted, are intended to showcase opportunities to leverage immunization to contribute to robust and strengthened PHC

Implementing the primary health care approach: a primer

This Primer is about the 'how' of primary health care (PHC) and brings together best practices and knowledge that countries have generated through 'natural experiments' in strengthening PHC with the best available research evidence. Despite the progress made towards PHC globally, the concept is still often misunderstood, even within the public health community. The Primer offers a contemporary understanding of PHC and more conceptual clarity for strengthening PHC-oriented health systems. It does so by consolidating both scientific evidence and an extensive sample of practical experiences across countries for the needed evidence to address practical implementation issues.

Stronger Collaboration better health: The Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All

Multilateral Health, Development and Humanitarian Agencies

The Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All is a global health partnership that brings together multilateral health, development and humanitarian agencies to better support countries in accelerating progress towards achieving the health-related sustainable development goals.

Strategizing national health in the 21st century: a handbook

Provides access on a regional or country wide data base to Health Planning, Governance, Aid Effectiveness & Support Towards Universal Health Coverage data and documents.

Integrating a focus on anti-corruption, transparency and accountability in health systems assessments

To support the efforts of WHO Member States to prevent corruption through greater transparency and reinforced accountability mechanisms in their health systems.

Reinforcing the focus on anti-corruption, transparency and accountability in national health policies, strategies and plans

To proposes ways to approach national health planning and the development of policies and strategies to identify corruption risk areas and help countries to decide which anti-corruption, transparency and accountability approaches should be deployed in response.

Universal Health Coverage law in practice: legal access rights to health care: introduction

To provide information on the approach to developing country profiles in relation to legal access rights to health care

Country Planning Cycle Data Base

Provides access on a regional or country wide data base to Health Planning, Governance, Aid Effectiveness & Support Towards Universal Health Coverage data and documents.

Universal Health Coverage Law Infographic

To define and provide a quick overview of UHC law.

Integrating the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and sexual and reproductive health programmes: Implementation guidance

To guide a paradigm shift in health systems in order to maximize the impact of health services and extend access to NCD care. This comprises a change from addressing NCDs and other diseases vertically to addressing them in an integrated manner, from a clinical to a clinical and public health approach, guided by the principles of universal access and social justice.

Country Planning Cycle Data Base

Provides access on a regional or country wide data base to Health Planning, Governance, Aid Effectiveness & Support Towards Universal Health Coverage data and documents.

Immunization Agenda 2030

To outline the case for Immunisation, to define a strategy for the future and to present a framework for action.

National Immunization Strategy

Planning document that focuses on a strategic period of 5 years, defining the immunization vision, specific objectives, priority strategies and costed set of interventions.