This brief includes a global evidence review of DFS for health conducted by LHSS and an analysis of two programmatic case studies of DFS for health by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) through the Digital Square initiative.

This brief highlights the recent shifts in health systems practice toward more explicitly incorporating an SBC lens in social accountability activities that aim to improve overall health system performance and address inequities. The brief synthesizes the growing body of evidence on the role social accountability plays in increasing accessibility to better-quality health care services and uses case studies and lessons learned to highlight how SBC approaches can be more explicitly integrated into this aspect of HSS programming.

This brief builds on the USAID Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS) Strengthening Governance report (2022) and global National Quality Policy and Strategy (NQPS) survey, aiming to provide practical examples and considerations for country practitioners to consider on their quality journeys. It includes case studies of three countries that have used NQPS to mobilize and align resources for quality.

In this webinar, we discuss conditions that facilitate the institutionalization of practices that improve health system outcomes. 

The report will describe previous efforts to establish a health professional council, examine the current situation related to the management of health professionals’ competency, quality, and ethics; and assess the current roadblocks to establish a semi-autonomous health professional council.

This document builds on the rural retention desk review conducted by USAID’s Health System Sustainability Activity (the Activity). The desk review assessed WHO’s recommendations (WHO 2010) on approaches to increase recruitment and retention of health workers in rural and remote areas considering the Timor-Leste context and the country’s governing laws.

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.

This brief strategy section will contextualize recruitment within the broader contexts of human resources for health and the broader health system, with the acknowledgment of the ultimate goal: to provide high-quality, accessible health care services to all Timorese people.

his document captures the progress so far in improving CSO-MoH engagement and the next steps.

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.

This learning brief can be used as a resource for HRH managers, planners, program managers, and frontline practitioners to learn how other countries are approaching and successfully designing and implementing solutions to their HRH challenges. It can also be used as a reference for health policy makers, funders, and implementing partners to inform the design and implementation of HRH resource optimization initiatives covered in this brief.

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.

This two-pager focuses on USAID’s Learning Question 1, “What are the contributions of systems thinking approaches and tools to changes in health system outcomes? How do systems thinking approaches affect health system outcomes?”