Learning from Doing: How USAID's Health Financing and Governance Project Supports Health System Reforms

Abstract

Abstract—This special issue of Health Systems & Reform presents a series of commentaries and articles that reflect the work of the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project, a global flagship health project of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Over its six-year life, the 200 million USD project has worked with more than 40 partner countries to increase their domestic resources for health, manage those resources more effectively, and reduce system bottlenecks in order to increase access to and use of priority health services and strengthen health systems overall.

Keywords

• comparative health system analysis
• health economics
• health finance
• health governance
• health policy
• health systems
• health systems financing
• health systems management
• health systems strengthening
• usaid