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Featured as part of the Closing Ceremony for the Activity in June 2024, this video highlights work of the USAID Health System Sustainability Activity in supporting Timor-Leste build a self-reliant health system that is well-governed, efficient, accountable, and responsive to people’s needs.
This document outlines the strategic process of establishing a Health Financing Unit (HFU) by the Ministry of Health(MOH) and USAID Health System Sustainability Activity(the Activity). It highlights key milestones, challenges, and lessons learned, emphasizing stakeholder engagement and tailored capacity building.
USAID nia Atividade ba Sustentabilidade Sistema Saúde iha Timor-Leste nia objetivu mak atu fortalese governasaun setor saúde, dezenvolve mekanismu ba finansiamentu saúde ida ne’ebe sustentável, fortalese jestaun forsa traballu saúde, promove hahalok saudavel, no mobiliza sosiedade sivil.
The USAID Health System Sustainability Activity in Timor-Leste aims to strengthen health sector governance, develop mechanisms for sustainable health financing, strengthen health workforce management, promote healthy behaviors, and mobilize civil society.
Health workers are welcoming new policies that promote equitable access to employment, professional development, and promotion opportunities.
The purpose of Institutional Capacity Assessment is to identify interventions the Activity can undertake in partnership with the GoTL to strengthen their capacities to improve health-system governance and functioning.
The manual clearly identifies the engagement mechanisms where REBAS-TL/CSOs could participate to discuss health issues that impact the population at national and municipality levels.
his document captures the progress so far in improving CSO-MoH engagement and the next steps.
This document captures a pathway that the USAID Activity and REBAS-TL have co-developed, describing how the network can evolve into a trusted and effective collaboration and best represent the community’s voice across health issues.
The proposed Health Financing Unit will serve as the steward within the Ministry of Health (MOH) to ensure that sufficient funding is available to the health system and used effectively and efficiently to ensure the population’s access to public health services.
This short handbook presents information and guidance to inform the advocacy efforts of REBAS-TL and its member CSOs.
The USAID Health System Sustainability Activity in Timor-Leste continues to support the Ministry of Health in strengthening the existing community health system and expanding the CBM-Health approach to additional villages.
Civil society organizations in Timor-Leste are playing important roles to identify health system problems and solutions, contribute ideas to the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) annual action plan, and participate in monitoring that holds the government accountable.
Since its establishment in 2022, REBAS-TL has promoted civil society engagement with the country’s health sector to strengthen health outcomes for the Timorese people.
Rede Ba Saúde Timor-Leste (REBAS-TL), the country's first-ever health CSO network, celebrated its one-year anniversary on May 5, 2023 highlighting the network's achievements to date.