SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa

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Main Author: Cashin Cheryl , Kimathi George, Otoo Nathaniel, Bloom Danielle & Munyua Agnes Gatome
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Language:English
Published: Health Systems & Reform 2024
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Online Access:https://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/4622
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spelling oai:repository.daystar.ac.ke:123456789-46222024-05-14T07:01:09Z SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa Cashin Cheryl , Kimathi George, Otoo Nathaniel, Bloom Danielle & Munyua Agnes Gatome Africa health financing SPARC strategic purchasing Journal Article Embodied in the goals of universal health coverage (UHC) are societal norms about ethics, equity, solidarity, and social justice. As African countries work toward UHC, it is important for their governments to use all available resources, knowledge, and networks to continue to bring this goal closer to reality for their populations. The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) was established in 2018 as a “go-to” source of Africa-based expertise in strategic health purchasing, which is a critical policy tool for making more effective use of limited funds for UHC. SPARC facilitates collaboration among governments and research partners across Africa to fill gaps in knowledge on how to make progress on strategic purchasing. The cornerstone of this work has been the development and use of the Strategic Health Purchasing Progress Tracking Framework to garner insights from each country’s efforts to make health purchasing more strategic. Application of the framework and subsequent dialogue within and between countries generated lessons on effective purchasing approaches that other countries can apply as they chart their own course to use strategic purchasing more effectively. These lessons include the need to clarify the roles of purchasing agencies, define explicit benefit packages as a precondition for other strategic purchasing functions, use contracting to set expectations, start simple with provider payment and avoid open-ended payment mechanisms, and use collaborative rather than punitive provider performance monitoring. SPARC has also facilitated learning on the “how-to” and practical steps countries can take to make progress on strategic purchasing to advance UHC. 2024-05-14T06:56:16Z 2024-05-14T06:56:16Z 2022 Article Cheryl C., George K., Nathaniel O., Danielle B., & Agnes G. M. (2022) SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa, Health Systems & Reform, 8:2, 2149380, DOI: 10.1080/23288604.2022.2149380 https://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/4622 en VOL. 8, NO. 2 application/pdf Health Systems & Reform
spellingShingle Africa
health financing
SPARC
strategic purchasing
Cashin Cheryl , Kimathi George, Otoo Nathaniel, Bloom Danielle & Munyua Agnes Gatome
SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa
title SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa
title_full SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa
title_fullStr SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa
title_full_unstemmed SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa
title_short SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa
title_sort sparc the change: what the strategic purchasing africa resource center has learned about improving strategic health purchasing in africa
topic Africa
health financing
SPARC
strategic purchasing
url https://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/4622
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