About
We are a consortium of global health initiatives (GHIs) —The Global Financing Facility, The Global Fund, The
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, Gavi, UHC 2030— who have come together with regional partners
Impact Santé Afrique (ISA) and WACI Health to develop and deliver a training and support programme on UHC
Budget Advocacy and Accountability in Sub-Sahara Africa.
This unique partnership leverages collaboration between the different GHIs’ agendas, such as the GAP, UHC agenda and COVID-19 response, and provides a coordinated, aligned and long-term support to Civil Society engagement in these agendas.
There are 20 participating countries, 10 from each sub-region: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, Benin,
Togo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Liberia, Niger,
Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda.
PHASE 1 – LEARNING:
Pillar 1:
Regional Training of Trainers (Anglophone and Francophone).
Pillar 2:
In-country practical and action orientated trainings focusing on building CSO’s capacity on advocacy and accountability for health financing for UHC.
PHASE 2 – SUPPORT:
Pillar 3:
Putting learning into practice with the support of tailored capacity building, technical assistance, mentoring and grants.
Our programme’s aim
Why Support CSO
Our programme’s aim
- Our programme aims to develop a cadre of trainers who can build capacity through delivering training on health financing, UHC and budget advocacy to country level actors from civil society, media organisations and from among elected representatives and that can provide in-country support to budget advocacy and accountability activities undertaken by CSO actors as well as mentorship.
- Our goal is to promote a multi-stakeholder collaboration that, through constructive mechanisms, will hold governments and donors to account for the allocation and equitable use of funding for health.
- Our training empowers local champions and stakeholders through being developed by civil society for civil society.
Why Support CSO
- Civil Society organisations (CSOs) are playing a critical role in building a strong-equity focused and people-led movement for UHC.
- Civil society should have a greater role in advocacy for accessible and quality health care, including through the active participation of civil society organisations (CSOs) in multi-stakeholder platforms. With the challenge of Sub-Saharan African countries to meet the Abuja Declaration commitments (government expenditure on health should be equivalent to at least 5% of GDP and 15% of total government expenditure), the need for addressing resource mobilisation, and especially domestic resource mobilisation, is essential to achieve universal health coverage (UHC).
- Civil society engagement in health financing advocacy and accountability has increased over the years. However, challenges at global- and country-level remain and have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic whereby many resources have been diverted from key health programmes to address the pandemic, thereby jeopardising hard-won gains in communicable diseases and basic health services and straining already fragile health systems.
- CSOs have also had to grapple with how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic but demonstrated their added value in the Covid-19 response through community mobilisation, awareness creation and using data for evidence-based decision making.