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.

LHSS partnered with colleagues working as part of the USAID MTaPS project to document a practical approach that countries can use to track pharmaceutical expenditure (PE) using the System of Health Accounts (SHA) 2011 framework. This resource contributes to efforts by the World Health Organization to develop global guidance on tracking of PE.

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.

This brief focuses on how pooling arrangements—the way countries combine funding from different sources to spread the financial risk of needing to pay for health services—can be improved to accelerate progress toward UHC.

This French analysis report is conducted by LHSS DRC, with the aim to describe the situation of health financing, in particular the aspects of governance, public finances, and mainly those related to the three functions of health financing, namely: resource mobilization, pooling, and procurement of services. This report is also available in English.

LHSS in the DRC conducted this study with the aim to describe the situation of health financing in the DRC, including aspects of governance, public finance, resource mobilization, pooling, and procurement of services. This is a retrospective and analytical descriptive study, focusing on the period from 2006 to 2023. This report is also available in French.

LHSS in Ukraine is supporting improvements in the legislative and policy environment so as to enable expanded access to quality medical services using telemedicine. The analysis consists of 18 chapters and covers a wide range of topics, including terms and definitions related to telemedicine, its role in provision of medical care in different types of health facilities, rights and responsibilities of patients and medical professionals, and more.

This Spanish report presents the work of USAID's Healthy Communities Program (LHSS Colombia) in supporting the MSPS in characterizing the medical account audit process.

This Spanish summary document describes the interventions implemented by USAID's Healthy Communities Program (LHSS Colombia) to strengthen the capacity of the Minister of Health and Social Protection (MSPS) and territorial governments to audit medical accounts. 

This document describes the interventions implemented by LHSS Colombia to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection (MSPS) and the territorial governments to audit medical bills.

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 Most Significant Change (MSC) is a complexity-aware monitoring approach that helps us track and understand important changes happening in systems, practices, organizations, and people. LHSS Bangladesh has applied this MSC tool to identify, evaluate, and understand the most substantial changes within our primary health care system functions. 

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 technical note will be updated based on the decisions and progress made in implementing CBHI or other health financing mechanisms, other governmental decisions, and the capacity of the CA-CSU and other actors in implementing the SNFS.