Health in Africa

completed

The project is comprised of the following 4 components: 1: Health Sector Regulation Reform which consists of providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health, in conjunction with private sector stakeholders, to develop a streamlined registration process and the creation of a centralized database of health providers; to reform secondary legislation and develop policies and procedures required for an efficient and effective health sector licensing mechanism; to facilitate a participatory process for the development of guidelines to be followed by health facilities and supervised by health inspections; and to strengthen health inspection planning and implementation. Component 2: Policy and Dialogue for the development of a Private health sector policy aligned with the national health sector plans and capacity building of the Private Health the Alliance Component 3: Extend performance based contracting and matching grants to private health facilities to develop guidelines for extending performance based contracts and matching grants to private health facilities Component 4: Knowledge sharing with the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) to distill relevant lessons and build the capacity of the ECCAS secretariat to support member countries translating lessons into improvements to the operating environment for the private health sector.