Development partners - government, bilateral and multilateral institutions have supported development initiatives in Sub-Saharan African countries and other developing countries for many years. One of the major beneficiaries has been the health sector. Funds have been released to support human capacity strengthening, institutional building and even infrastructure development. Much more development assistance has been targeted for procurement of drugs. With these ongoing efforts over the years, the Sub-Saharan Africa continues to struggle with an under-performing health sector where large populations are unable to access health care services for many reasons: inadequate health personnel, dilapidated health infrastructure and absence of drugs to name but a few. The question then arises: Where do all the health dollars go? How are these finances appropriated? Which are the main areas of leakage?

This course is aimed at building the capacities of health personnel and lobby bodies to track the utilization of health expenditure.

Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to track expenditures in the health sector and develop strategies that enhance efficiency, effectiveness and allocation of public resources in the health sector.

Contents

1. Mapping the actors in the health sector
   1. Linkages and leakeges
   2. Expenditure tracking approaches
   3. Analysing expenditure tracking data
   4. Developing interventions to seal the leakage(s)

Target Group

This course is ideal for health personnel in the Ministries of health, Senior Finance officers in the Ministry of Finance and those from the civil society organizations with an interest in public policy.