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Blog Post
December 17, 2021
As the GFF wraps up its sixth year of operations, enters its next strategic period, and undertakes an important replenishment campaign to raise an additional $2.5 billion in trust fund resources, we are excited to share new work on the role of the GFF in improving the impact of health spending for R...
POLICY PAPERS
December 17, 2021
The Global Financing Facility (GFF), launched in 2015, is a partnership backed by a multi-donor World Bank trust fund that aims to “prioritize and scale-up evidence-driven investments to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) interventions” in ...
Blog Post
December 10, 2021
To mark this year’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day on December 12, we’ve brought together recent work from CGD’s global health policy team to advance #HealthForAll through an elevated financing agenda. As the devastating toll of COVID-19 shows the financial and human costs of inadequate po...
Blog Post
December 01, 2021
We worked with the Joint Learning Network (JLN) Efficiency Collaborative to gain insights from Collaborative members who represent technical staff and decision-makers working at the heart of health benefit packages development and revisions in eleven low-and middle-income countries in Africa and Asi...
CASE STUDIES
November 18, 2021
Since 2018, the government of Kenya has worked on a series of policies and pilots to support the implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. UHC ensures that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. As part of this eff...
CASE STUDIES
November 18, 2021
Zambia has been steadily working towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) since the 1990s. Zambia's UHC ambition rests primarily on the delivery of two Health Benefits Packages (HBPs): the National Health Care Package (NHCP) and the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) Ben...
Blog Post
November 04, 2021
In this blog, we provide a rapid overview of the sources and wider uses of medicines data to strengthen health systems in LMIC settings, with a focus on Ghana. We argue that having credible and comprehensive data on medicines use leads to better decision making and better medicines policy. These are...