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Progress Report on Institutionalizing National Health Accounts in ECSA

This paper provides insights into the institutionalization of National Health Accounts (NHA) in the East, Central, and Southern Africa region, outlining key milestones, training initiatives, partnerships, and policy impacts. It discusses the challenges and opportunities in advancing NHA as a policy tool and highlights the commitment of member states and donors in promoting NHA in the region.

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Progress Report on Institutionalizing National Health Accounts in ECSA

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  1. Commonwealth Regional Health Community for East, Central and Southern Africa.3rd International NHA Conference, San Francisco, California 13-14 June 2003 Institutionalization of National Health Accounts in ECSA: Progress Report ` Dr. Mark Bura Health Systems Development Coordinator. CRHCS. 1

  2. First version of this paper was presented at the 36 Conference of Commonwealth Regional Health Ministers Conference, Entebbe, Uganda, 18-22 November 2002 2

  3. Milestones in Institutionalisation of NHA in ECSA ONE Popularisation of NHA by WHO, Harvard School of Public Health from mid-nineties to date 6

  4. TWOTen ECSA Countries bold enough to undertake first NHA • Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, • Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ethiopia and Rwanda undertook their first NHA between 1995-2000 7

  5. THREECRHCS/ECSA arrives on the NHA scene. • November 2000: CRHCS established Health Care Financing Programme • March 2001: trained CHF Coordinator in NHA with USAID/REDSO support • April 2001 : ECSA/Health Care Financing Expert Committee met first time and drafted a HCF Strategic Plan in which NHA is included as major activity over 4 years. 8

  6. Training of core Regional and national NHA promoters-VERMONT

  7. FOURNHA ECSA Network and Health Ministers Resolution to Institutionalise NHA. • April 2001: NHA ECSA Network coordination taken over by CRHCS • September 2001: First ECSA NHA Executive Sensitisation Workshop for Permanent Secretaries MoH and Directors held in Mombasa. They endorse NHA 10

  8. FOUR CONT. NHA ECSA Network and Health Ministers Resolution to Institutionalise NHA. November 2001: 34th Regional Health Ministers Conference makes a resolution to Institutionalise 11

  9. ECSA Regional Training Courses on NHA by CRHCS, WHO, SIDA, USAID/REDSO, PHRplus etc.

  10. NHA Country and CRHCS Activities • November 2001: 1st ECSA NHA Regional Training Workshop coordinated by CRHCS in collaboration with USAID/REDSO and PHR plus- took place in Lusaka Zambia. • November 2001: Mauritius NHA process launched with support of CRHCS in collaboration with USAID/REDSO and PHR. 13

  11. NHA Country and CRHCS Activities cont. • August 2002: Seychelles invited CRHCS to launching of NHA process to date Seychelles has established an NHA steering and working committees 14

  12. Partnership and collaboration is good for NHA

  13. CRHC forges Collaboration with Partners and Donors • June 2002: A Joint Donor Meeting to mobilize resources for NHA in Sub-Saharan Africa took place in Nairobi–CRHCS played a major role in coordination and drafting the NHA Strategy in Africa. • November 2002: 2nd ECSA NHA Regional Training Workshop was conducted by CRHCS and WHO in Mutare Zimbabwe. 16

  14. ECSA Countries are moving fast with NHA Analysis. 2003: • Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia are currently working on their 2nd NHA analyses. 17

  15. The Challenge of Training NHA analysis in ECSA • At this point in time NHA is a new concept in Sub-Saharan Africa and other developing countries in the World. • None of the Sub-Saharan countries has adequate expertise in NHA. • WHO, Harvard School of Public Health (Peter Berman and others) and PHRplus/Abt Associates are the main fountain of knowledge and skills in NHA currently • CRHCS and WHO AFRO feels confident to run and conduct NHA with just little technical support from partners and donors. 18

  16. The Challenge of Training NHA analysis in ECSA cont. • To date ECSA have collectively trained only about 110, one to two weeks workshop trainees. Of these trainees 95 are from 11 active CRHC member countries. • A one month training course could be a basic requirement for NHA analysis. • A two week further training might be required for focus on data collection and analysis –6-8 weeks course would be required to qualify as an NHA practitioner 19

  17. NHA Training in ECSA

  18. Indicators: Institutionalization of NHA in ECSA-Country Activities

  19. Indicators: Institutionalization of NHA in ECSA cont.-Country Activities

  20. NHA Financing and Collaboration in ECSA

  21. Policy Impact of NHA use in ECSA • Though the results of 1st NHA analysis in ECSA were received with mixed feeling, a few ECSA countries have already put to use the outcome . • Kenya has decided to undertake 2nd NHA in order to come up with more realistic estimates especially on Household Expenditures • Tanzania used NHA results to reinforce coordination of external resources and increase its attention of the private sector. • Zambia confirmed the importance of the private sectors and efforts are made to integrate both sectors • Zambia is using NHA to improve allocate efficiency particularly allocating more resources to preventive services. 24

  22. Conclusions • NHA has been received by Policy makers in ECSA and there is a strong political will to use NHA as policy tool • Member States and Donorsare building up efforts to institutionalize NHA • Despite a strong political will there is a challenging technical and resource gap • There is a window opportunity for both MS and Donors to leverage their efforts to institutionalize and sustain of NHA in ECSA. 25

  23. Thank You

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