East Asia and Pacific

Projects

aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group

aids2031 is a international consortium of partners examining the future of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Costs and Financing Working Group is focused on modeling and analyzing the long-term costs and financing of the epidemic, and examining scenarios in which major policy shifts now can improve the future expenditure and financing situation.

Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

CHMI is a global network of partners that systematically identifies, documents, and analyzes health market innovations, disseminates information about these models, and facilitates strategic linkages among entrepreneurs, funders, policymakers, and researchers. Visit http://healthmarketinnovations.org/ to use the interactive CHMI global knowledge platform.

Constraints to Vaccine Adoption in Low and Middle Income Countries

Results for Development Institute (R4D), received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct a study to enhance global knowledge and understanding of the challenges that Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs) face as they consider the adoption of new vaccines.

Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage

The Joint Learning Network (JLN) for Universal Health Coverage brings together countries from across the globe to share experiences and challenges in implementing health financing reforms.

Joint Learning Workshop: Moving Toward Universal Health Coverage

As a first step toward the development of an ongoing, multi-country cross-learning platform, several countries and their development partners convened a joint learning workshop in Delhi, India in February 2010. The workshop brought together practitioners from six countries to share learning around the successes and problem-solve around the challenges of implementing demand-side health financing reforms to expand health coverage.

Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability

The Strengthening Institutions Program, a joint program of the Global Development Network and R4D, aims to strengthen policy debates around public expenditure issues in developing countries by providing support to emerging think tanks to conduct analyses of spending in the health, education, and water sectors.

The Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP)

The Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) strengthens the capacity of independent monitoring organizations (IMOs) in developing countries to promote improvements in social sector public spending and better hold their governments accountable for expenditure decisions and actions.

Transforming Health Systems Initiative (THS)

Transforming Health Systems is an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation that seeks to strengthen health systems by supporting global level analysis of policies that drive a global health systems agenda and country level work to implement catalytic demonstrations of health systems transformation.

Publications & Resources

R4D is committed to disseminating the tools and publications that emerge from our projects, in both print and electronic formats.

Reform of How Health Care is Paid for in China: Challenges and Opportunities

This paper looks at the challenges China faces in implementing reforms to improve how health care is paid for and ways in which these challenges can be met.

Human Resources for Health: Costing the Philippine Pre-Service HRH Scale-Up Plans

This report estimates the Philippine resource requirements for scaling up the country’s workforce plans.

News & Events

Joint Learning Workshop brings together six countries to discuss universal health coverage

On February 3-5, R4D and its partners convened delegations from six countries – Ghana, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam - for a Joint Learning Workshop on Universal Health Coverage in Gurgaon, India. The three day workshop served as a forum for participants to share their experiences implementing health reforms and learn from other countries.

Farzana Muhib discusses aids2031 findings on the BBC's Health Check

In preparation for World AIDS Day, the BBC invited Farzana Muhib, R4D's coordinator for the aids2031 Costs and Financing Project, to discuss future cost and financing scenarios for the global AIDS epidemic in their Health Check spotlight, "The Future for HIV/AIDS Funding." Ms. Muhib highlighted the importance of "tough choice" spending policy decisions and more efficient management of resources now in order to curb future costs of the epidemic and achieve better health outcomes.