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Monitoring and evaluation of health sector reforms in the WHO African Region
S P Barry1, A J Diarra-Nama, J M Kirigia
1Health Policies and Services Delivery Programme, Division of Health Systems and Services Development, WHO Regional Office for Africa, BP 06, Brazzaville, Congo.
Objectives:
To describe a comprehensive analytical framework for assessing health sector reforms and demonstrates use of the analysis framework using cost-recovery mechanisms as a case study in the WHO African Region.
Data Sources:
Health sector reforms published literature review.
Study Selection:
No selection involved.
Data Extraction:
This paper draws from previous published literature to describe a comprehensive framework to assess the performance of health sector reforms in the African region. Using this framework, it goes on to illustrate how it may be used to analyze cost recovery reforms as a case study. The major elements for the analysis include a description of the context, design, process and intended results.
Data Synthesis:
In terms of context and design of the cost recovery reform, there were gaps in the stewardship role of governments as evidenced by the lack of appropriate policies and information to monitor and/or influence the process. Regarding the cost recovery implementation, it is not clear from the literature reviewed in this paper that there was a comprehensive stakeholder coordination mechanism that catered for all who were involved. Concerning results of the expected results of implementing cost recovery reforms such as improved quality of health services; equitable service utilisation; social sustainability through active community participation; and gains in efficiency were not always realised.
Conclusions:
Given that the aspects of the analysis framework described in this paper are interrelated, reviewing one without another provides an answer to a specific question but is insufficient for a comprehensive assessment.
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