How can the Global Fund and partners help countries better use the broad support available from the Global Fund to strengthen health systems at the national and community level?
Use the Global Fund and its partners’ advocacy tools to strengthen health systems and increase civil society’s voice
§ English: Robert E. Lovelace, United States.
Harmonize aid, working closely with partners and countries’ national budgets. Ensure genuine civil society input
Support the health system at grass-root level, working through partners at community level to provide services and capacity.
Prioritize education, distribution of treatment and social mobilization
Tap into the potential of public private partnerships which could address the traditional problems of equity, access and quality of health care services.
§ English: cotienoo, Kenya; tecomfoundation, Ghana.
Apply proper management principles, whether in planning, coordination or dealing with patients
Implement a proper monitoring and evaluation system, which will ensure equity and accountability
Provide training and technical support in HSS
Provide funds for the improvement of working conditions and infrastructure within the health sector
Strengthen and integrate finance and information systems, including the computerization of health systems
Include strengthening systems as mandatory component in proposals
§ Spanish: Maria del Carmen Navarro, Peru.
Conduct an objective needs analysis, with the participation of CCM
Strengthen inter-ministerial collaboration as an integral function of health systems.
§ Russian: Gerasim K, Uzbekistan.
Study the existing mechanisms of funding programs for three diseases in order to verify the justification of the procedures cost, clinical protocols and flows of financing before the start of each round of funding.
§ Russian: Alexandre Kahn, Kyrgyzstan.