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Meeting Report Training Workshop on Strategic Planning and Costing for Maternal and Child Health Using the United Nations OneHealth Tool

Manila, Philippines 7–10 November 2011

WPR/DHP/MCN(04)/2011

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Report series number: RS/2011/GE/70(PHL)

REPORT

TRAINING WORKSHOP ON STRATEGIC PLANNING AND COSTING FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH USING THE UNITED NATIONS ONEHEALTH TOOL

Convened by: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC

Manila, Philippines 7–10 November 2011

Not for sale Printed and distributed by: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific Manila, Philippines

February 2012

NOTE The views expressed in this report are those of the participants in the Training Workshop on Strategic Planning and Costing for Maternal and Child Health Using the United Nations OneHealth Tool and do not necessarily reflect the policies of the World Health Organization.

This report has been prepared by the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific for those who participated in the Training Workshop on Strategic Planning and Costing for Maternal and Child Health Using the United Nations OneHealth Tool, in the Philippines from 7 to 10 November 2011.

CONTENTS Page SUMMARY 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2. Objectives ..................................................................................................................... 1 Opening remarks ........................................................................................................... 1 Participants and resource persons ................................................................................. 2 Meeting venue and agenda............................................................................................ 2

PROCEEDINGS.................................................................................................................... 2 2.1 Overview of planning processes, costing and OneHealth............................................. 2 2.2 Session 2: Getting started with OneHealth ................................................................... 4 2.3 Session 3: Maternal and child health-specific programme planning within OneHealth .......................................................................................................... 7 2.4 Session 4: Health systems planning within OneHealth................................................. 8 2.5 Session 5: Planning and costing programme activities, looking at synergies ............. 11 2.6 Session 6: Bringing it all together............................................................................... 13 2.7 Session 7: Scenarios and priority-setting .................................................................... 14 2.8 Final session: Plenary discussion on the role of OneHealth in strategic planning...... 15

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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................. 16

ANNEXES: ANNEX 1 ANNEX 2 ANNEX 3 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS AND RESOURCE PERSONS AGENDA WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

Keywords Maternal health services / Child health services / Health personnel-education / Regional health planning / Delivery of health care

SUMMARY

The training workshop on strategic planning and costing for maternal and child health using the United Nations OneHealth tool was held in Manila from 7 to 10 November 2011. The objectives of the workshop were: (1) apply the OneHealth tool to cost health-related interventions in different country contexts and generate basic costing projections for maternal and child health programmes; (2) perform a strategic assessment of the health systems performance and capacity for key interventions for maternal and child health and determine key areas of concern; (3) develop and compare alternative scenarios for planning scaling up actions and examining the financial implications and the expected reduction in disease burden; (4) assess health system implications for scaling up and ensuring sustained delivery of maternal and child health interventions, including related programme activities. The meeting was attended by country experts on health systems and from maternal and child health programmes. This included government staff and academics from Cambodia, China, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands and Viet Nam as well as representatives from development partners and WHO Country Office staff. A first session set the scene, providing an overview of planning processes, costing and the role of the OneHealth tool in informing planning processes. This was followed by a number of in-depth sessions on actual use of the tool. These sessions went through three modules: the Health Services module, where users put in coverage rates and associated costs of the actual health interventions that will be delivered; the Health Systems module, in which users put in essential data for health systems planning such as human resources and logistics plans; and the Impact module, in which the underlying demographic and epidemiological submodels driving mortality and morbidity results can be viewed and adjusted. Sessions then focused on the results of the tool, how OneHealth can be best assimilated with existing budget plans of governments and strategies for developing useful alternative scenarios to guide policy decisions. The final session was a plenary discussion on the role of OneHealth in strategic planning, with the focus on the reflections of participating countries on the role of OneHealth in their specific country settings and relevant next steps.

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INTRODUCTION

Countries in the Western Pacific Region have made significant progress in reducing child mortality and improving maternal health; under-5 and infant mortality rates have been reduced by 50% and the maternal mortality ratio by almost 60% since 1990. But equitable achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 has been hugely uneven. Challenges exist in scaling up a core package of good quality interventions and services towards universal coverage throughout the spectrum of care across the life stages and all levels of the health system. A strong policy, strategy and planning framework for maternal and child health imbedded in the overall national objectives for health and reflected in integrated national health plans is the foundation for effective implementation. This also is relevant for planning and implementation in other programme areas. WHO, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank have created a joint United Nations OneHealth Tool to facilitate integrated planning processes by bringing together programme planning and health systems planning into one results-based framework. A four-day training workshop and launch of the OneHealth tool was conducted in the Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila from 7 to 10 November 2011 in order to better link the programme-specific planning of maternal and child health with health system planning. 1.1 Objectives (1) To apply the OneHealth tool to cost health-related interventions in different country contexts and generate basic costing projections for maternal and child health programmes; (2) To perform a strategic assessment of the health systems performance and capacity for key interventions for maternal and child health and determine key areas of concern; (3) To develop and compare alternative scenarios for planning scaling-up actions, and examining the financial implications and the expected reduction in disease burden; and (4) To assess health system implications for scaling up and ensuring sustained delivery of maternal and child health interventions, including related programme activities. 1.2 Opening remarks

Dr Han Tieru, Director of the Division of Building Healthy Communities and Populations, welcomed the participants and highlighted some of the issues that can be addressed by the OneHealth costing and planning tool. In particular, he highlighted how OneHealth builds on and brings together previous vertical programme or agency-specific tools into a single, unified tool.

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Dr Henk Bekedam, Director of the Division of Health Services Development, further emphasized the added value of the tool in bringing together programme-specific experts with health system experts, with OneHealth having significant potential to help simplify and harmonize national planning and costing processes under one unified platform. Dr Marianna Trias, Team Leader from Maternal and Child Health, provided an overview of the workshop objectives and agenda. All of the presentations used in the workshop are attached in Annex 3. 1.3 Participants and resource persons

The meeting was attended by country experts on health systems and from maternal and child health programmes. This included government staff and academics from Cambodia, China, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands and Viet Nam and representatives from development partners and WHO Country Office staff. A list of participants is attached as Annex 1. 1.4 Meeting venue and agenda

The meeting was held at the Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila, Philippines. The meeting agenda is attached as Annex 2.

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PROCEEDINGS

2.1

Overview of planning processes, costing and OneHealth

Dr Tessa Edejer from WHO Headquarters gave a presentation on national health policies, strategies and plans. This highlighted the challenges facing a country's health system, particularly issues of fragmentation in planning and funding that can lead to duplication of services and distorted priorities. It introduced the health system building blocks and also illustrated that a coherent and balanced health plan should integrate the various subsector strategies within the overall health plan and should not be limited to government services. It should be broad enough to include other actors in the health sector and beyond. Dr Mikael Ostergren from Headquarters gave a presentation which focused on strategic planning for maternal and child health. As well as summarizing findings from the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health and the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health, the presentation outlined important linkages between maternal and child health planning and overall national health planning.

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2.1.1 The role of OneHealth for informing planning processes Karin Stenberg from Headquarters gave an overview of how OneHealth can be used to strengthen strategic planning for better health outcomes. For example, OneHealth improves planning process by: (1) giving national programmes a common platform where consistent methods are used across programme areas; (2) ensuring that health system capacity is driving the planning process, thereby helping goals to be realistically set; (3) using health impact and other criteria to drive the priority setting process; (4) providing a checklist function, promoting comprehensiveness and inclusiveness; (5) bringing noncommunicable diseases into the mainstream planning process for national strategic health plans; and (6) harmonizing United Nations agency support. OneHealth provides a flexible format whereby the user can enter the planning and costing process from the perspective of programmes, service delivery levels and/or health systems components. This includes demonstrating the links built into the tool between specific programme plans (such as for maternal and child health) and the health system components. The underlying assumptions and modelling metrics of OneHealth were agreed upon and informed by expert group consultation. In order to simplify data entry, OneHealth is equipped with default values for both quantities and prices, where appropriate. The tool is composed of different modules that are interlinked. These also include a module on financial space for projecting the expected financial envelope under different country-defined projections as well as a Core Results module that brings together all of the calculations into a set of summary results, identifying both quantities of inputs planned for, anticipated costs and likely health impact(s). Some of the main ways in which the tool provides added value in comparison to existing tools can be summarized as follows: (1) user-friendly interface; (2) modular format adaptable to different country contexts; (3) flexible structure that corresponds to the ways in which real-world health care system planning is performed; (4) user can choose the level of detail for planning;

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(5) direct links and checks built in between different components in the tool; (6) OneHealth takes into account the perspective of long term planning and links up with health systems planners, e.g. HRH planning can be done with a longer term perspective; (7) programme-specific plans are compared against health system capacity, such that feasibility of programme planning is checked against given available resources; and (8) regularly updated software. It was also noted that OneHealth already incorporates many of the existing tools, as summarized below: Tools incorporated into OneHealth Tool MBB WHO (Stop TB) WHO (iHTP)

LiST (Lives Saves Tool) Resource Needs Model AIM, GOALS WHO (Child Health Cost Estimation Tool) FamPlan UNFPA RH costing tool 2.2

Specific areas incorporated Bottleneck analysis, fiscal space analysis; budget mapping TB planning Detailed intervention planning for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) (staff time minutes; drugs commodities) Impact for child and maternal health Costs for HIV/AIDS interventions Impact for HIV/AIDS interventions Intervention costing for child health; Overall Framework for Programme Activity Costing Impact for Family Planning interventions Costing reproductive health interventions

Session 2: Getting started with OneHealth

2.2.1 Overview of OneHealth software: structure, content and results produced Karin Stenberg gave an overview of the OneHealth software. She explained how the software is organized into different components, or modules, each of which has different intended users. For example, the Human Resource module would be filled in by a human resources planner, the malaria module would be filled in by a malaria programme manager, etc. There would then be a process of consolidation at the country level, where stakeholders agree on common priorities for the health sector plan. She then outlined the overall structure of the OneHealth tool, based around the five following sections: (1) Home: configuration of the projection scenario to the country-specific setting, determination of the settings such as language and access to a built-in help manual.

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Health services (a) The user can choose to plan for the intervention target setting by vertical programme or by service delivery level. In both cases, there is a process for detailed planning and indicating which interventions should be delivered at which delivery level and with which resources. (b) The tool is flexible, allowing the user to shift interventions between programmes and also merge and/or create new programmes as needed depending on the national planning context. (c) If the user chooses to configure planning parameters by vertical programme, the tool opens with default assumptions for eight programmes related to the health MDGs, namely: child health; reproductive and maternal health; immunization and nutrition; water and sanitation (WASH); HIV/AIDS; TB; and Malaria. Additional programme default values will be added from late 2011, including noncommunicable diseases.

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Health systems (a) The following modules are included for health systems planning: human resources; infrastructure; logistics; health information systems; health financing; governance. (b) OneHealth also includes a Financial Space module for projecting the expected financial envelope under different country-defined projections.

(4) Impact modules: health impact is estimated through models directly linked to the targets and strategies identified by the user within the tool. Several submodels within OneHealth that draw upon recognized demographic and epidemiological reference models are fully incorporated as part of the OneHealth software. These are: (a) DemProj: estimates the populations which later are used to assess intervention costs; (b) FamPlan: calculates the fertility rates that feed into DemProj based upon the scale up of family planning services; (c) LiST: (Lives Saved tool) calculates the mortality and nutrition impact of scaling up maternal and child health interventions, including malaria interventions; (d) AIM: estimates the mortality impact of scaling up HIV/AIDS interventions; and

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(e) TB model: calculates the impact of efforts to notify and treat people who suffer from tuberculosis. Additional work is planned in the future to support further development of impact models where feasible, e.g. for noncommunicable diseases. (5) Results: the section for results brings together all the calculations into a set of summary results, identifying both quantities of inputs planned for, anticipated costs, the financial and fiscal space constraints and likely population health impacts. 2.2.2 Setting up core data: the "Home" and "Health Services" tabs Dr Bill Winfrey from Futures Institute demonstrated how a health planner sets up the core data required for OneHealth. This involved the following steps: (1) Opening and saving OneHealth projections. (2) Entering basic information about how the plan will be developed, including the years of the plan and the baseline year against which the plan will be evaluated. (3) Configuring the model to a specific country context in which the planner selects the country and OneHealth automatically loads demographic and epidemiological information; further, the planner can customize the currency used to cost the plan. (4) Determining what the plan will look like and how it will be calculated. The planner customizes the scenario to plan around delivery channels or programme areas. The planner can customize the tool to fit the structure of a particular department or ministry, including the definition of programme areas and definition of priority interventions. (5) Advanced options, including a logistics optimizer or a human resources interactive policy analysis. This session included exercises to give participants hands-on experience with OneHealth. 2.2.3 Reviewing background data and country information ("Impact Modules") Dr Bill Winfrey summarized the five impact modules from which OneHealth draws to calculate the demographic and mortality impact of the health plan (see above for an explanation of each of these modules). This session also showed how planners could review a country's baseline health profile. 2.2.4 Setting up core data: the "Health Systems" tab Dr Bill Winfrey demonstrated how OneHealth allows the planner to customize the health systems set up to match his/her country’s structure:

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(1) In the human resources module, the planner can specify the staff types, both service delivery and support personnel. (2) In the Infrastructure module, the planner can specify the service delivery and support structures used within the system. The other health system modules related to Health Information Systems, Health Finance and Governance also were briefly introduced. This session also included OneHealth exercises. 2.3 Session 3: Maternal and child health-specific programme planning within OneHealth

2.3.1 Overview of basic costing concepts and their application in OneHealth Dr Chris James, Technical Officer from Health Care Financing, introduced essential costing concepts and how they apply to OneHealth. An important distinction was made between economic costs (i.e. the opportunity cost, or the value of resources used up, whether paid for financially) and financial costs (i.e. the financial expenditure incurred in providing an intervention). Financial costs are used in OneHealth. Another key OneHealth methodological costing issue is in how OneHealth handles joint or shared costs such as human resources; these are linked to the budget holder rather than divided among programmes. This approach is used to ensure that health systems are planned and costed for in a holistic way, based on the needs of the entire health system rather than just specific programmes. 2.3.2 Intervention costing 1: Setting the population in need and delivery channels Dr Bill Winfrey demonstrated how setting the population in need and delivery channels in OneHealth are used to estimate the intervention requirements. That is, intervention requirements are calculated based upon the number of services (or cases) multiplied by the resource requirements per service (or case). The number of services is then calculated as the target population, multiplied by the percent of the target population who needs the service, multiplied by the coverage of the service. The coverage of the service is disaggregated by the service delivery point. This session also included exercises. In a later session the resource requirements and coverage targets were discussed. 2.3.3 Intervention costing 2: Setting the treatment inputs Karin Stenberg and Dr Mikael Ostergen from Headquarter demonstrated how intervention costing in OneHealth refers to three types of inputs: (1) drugs and medical supplies; (2) medical personnel (time); and (3) outpatient visits and in-patient days. Each intervention in OneHealth is equipped with defaults for the inputs, based on standardized WHO case-management protocols. The inputs can be edited and can be adjusted to

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align with national treatment guidelines. The treatment inputs entered into the tool for each intervention are combined for all programmes and compared with information in the health systems modules. In this way, the expectations on the health system as envisioned by programme planning can be visualized and used to inform planning discussions. This session also included exercises. 2.3.4 Setting intervention coverage targets Robert Scherpbier from the WHO China Country Office presented on the marginal budgeting for bottlenecks (MBB) approach and how it fits into the overall OneHealth tool. He explained how MBB is a problem-solving tool to identify health system bottlenecks that prevent scaling up of key maternal and child health interventions; in OneHealth, MBB can be used optionally for all health interventions. He then discussed how to decide on scale up trajectories and how this is implemented within the OneHealth tool through linear, exponential, front-loaded and S-shaped trajectories. 2.3.5 Summary discussion on health services planning Dr Tessa Edejer discussed how health services planning starts with looking at the burden of disease and the main causes of mortality; e.g. maternal or child or neonatal mortality. This is a key part of the situation analysis. One then selects the interventions known to impact on mortality and then describes the intervention in terms of target population and target coverage and treatment inputs (human resources, commodities, etc). The results page will give the number of inputs (e.g. children immunized) and costs of each commodity (drugs, etc.) and the impact that can be expected because of the scale up. 2.4 Session 4: Health systems planning within OneHealth

2.4.1 Human resources for health (HRH) Karin Stenberg introduced the topic of human resource planning in OneHealth; Dr Bill Winfrey and Walaiporn Patcharan from Headquarters guided exercises on the topic. To effectively plan human resources for health, the planner should consider the state of the current health workforce (recognizing activities in other sectors such as the overall labour market), future expectations in terms of numbers, skills and distribution and then assess how various policy instruments can align future staff supply to future staff needs. Moreover, when using the HRH module in OneHealth, the following points need to be taken into account: (1) HRH planning is longer term, often a planning horizon of 20 years or more. (2) HRH should be planned for a comprehensive range of health workers and health services, and not just for the MDGs. (3) HRH policy options relate to retention, recruitment, motivation and employment conditions.

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The HRH module in OneHealth allows a planner to examine the following: (1) targeting and costing of staffing for short and long-term needs; (2) examination of strategies for achieving targeted staffing needs; (3) costing of strategies for achieving targeted staffing needs; (4) examination of production of health workers; and (5) costing activities for the administration, planning and supervision of HRH. The user can contextualize the module to the local setting and at the same time keep some global default data in the tool. There are four types of human resources in OneHealth: (1) HR for general health service delivery: planned for in HRH module; (2) HR for general health system management and admin: planned for in HRH module; (3) HR for management and administration of specific health programmes: planned for in specific programme modules; and (4) HR for management and administration of health system components: planned for in specific programme health system modules To allow the user flexibility, there methods for target-setting for each HRH type: (1) population norms (the workforce-to-population ratio method), e.g. one community health worker per 1000 population; one psychologist per 100 000 population; (2) facility norms (staffing standards), e.g. two nurses per health centre; and (3) existing plans, e.g. absolute numbers are directly put into OneHealth, e.g. based on a pre-existing HRH strategy. Finally, OneHealth allows comparison of the overall HR plans from this module with the HR requirements associated with scale up of health interventions, as defined by the different health programmes. This allows for a reality check on the feasibility of health worker availability and capacity to deliver the service coverage expansion plans.

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2.4.2 Infrastructure and equipment Karin Stenberg demonstrated how infrastructure and equipment are handled in OneHealth. For infrastructure, there are two types of planning in OneHealth: (1) facilities delivering health interventions; and (2) facilities with support functions. These should be filled in by staff responsible for facility planning in a ministry of health and should be planned for within the infrastructure module. There is no specific space in the programme or systems modules to plan for infrastructure that is specific to a programme, e.g. voluntary HIV testing clinics, or maternity waiting homes. Such buildings should also be planned for in the infrastructure module1. For equipment, it is generally advised that it is planned for within the Infrastructure module, since equipment is most commonly a shared cost (shared between programmes). However there is also the possibility to include a budget for specific equipment within a programme budget. As such, there are two types of planning for equipment in OneHealth: (3) General equipment at facilities for health service delivery: planned and budgeted for in Infrastructure module (4) Equipment specific to the health programme for health service delivery: planned and budgeted for in specific programme modules Other types of equipment such as office and ICT equipment can be planned and budgeted for in specific programme or systems modules. This is also true of other capital inputs such as vehicles, i.e. these can either be general vehicles for the health system (such as ambulances) or programme-specific vehicles (such as a van used by the national immunization programme). Standard lists of medical equipment per facility with estimated prices are provided as defaults in the tool, along with standard lists of furniture and related prices. To allow the user flexibility, two methods can be used for facility target setting: • • Population norms (the facility-to-population ratio method), e.g. one health centre per 10 000 population Existing plans. E.g. an infrastructure strategy with numbers of needed facilities has already been developed: the absolute numbers of facilities planned by year can be inputted directly into OneHealth.

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An exception being that warehouses can be planned for in the Logistics module.

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In addition, it is expected that future versions of OneHealth will link to existing tools for geographic mapping (where facilities are geo-coded with latitude and longitude data). Logistics/supply chain Dr Bill Winfrey briefly demonstrated how the logistics module helps the planner calculate the costs of scaling up the supply chain to deliver essential medicines to health facilities. Inputs to the supply chain include warehouses, vehicles and workers. The tool allows the planner to scale up according to an existing plan or to use an optimizer to estimate the most efficient theoretical supply chain structure. Recognizing the importance of planning and administration, OneHealth includes a template for the planner to cost administrative and programme support costs. Overview of other health system components Dr Bill Winfrey briefly demonstrated the other health system components that are under development. These relate to modules for Health Information Systems, Health Financing and Governance. Currently, the tool includes basic functional elements for costing these systems. These functional elements are organized according to schemes that have been published in the relevant literature. Future versions of the OneHealth Tool will include more features to guide the planner through the process of developing the plans. Summary discussion on health systems planning Dr Tessa Edejer reiterated that health systems planning implies investment planning. It takes time and resources to build up the health system; e.g. producing doctors or nurses or building infrastructure. For service delivery to occur, there must be functioning health infrastructure with equipment and the human resources to provide the services and a logistics and supply system to deliver the commodities to the patients. The first version of OneHealth, the MDG service delivery version, has the different MDG programmes and the health system building blocks of human resources, infrastructure and equipment and logistics and supply chain management. The different programmes, as they scale up, inform the different building block modules of their health system implications, including total number of outpatient visits and in patient days required. A summary result can show the demands on the health system as the different programmes scale up and can compare this with the available supply. Dr Rudi Knippenberg from UNICEF also stressed the complementarity of OneHealth with the existing Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks tool. 2.5 Session 5: Planning and costing programme activities, looking at synergies

Programme activity costing Ms Karin Stenberg and Dr Robert Scherpbier demonstrated how OneHealth facilitates the planning and costing of programme activities. Programme costs relate to the costs incurred at the administrative levels of the district, provincial or central-levels, and can be specific to a

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particular programme. Importantly they are distinct from the intervention costs that are direct health care interventions. A standard template has been programmed into the software for each programme module, with the following categories of activities and costs: • • • • • • • • • Programme-Specific Human Resources Training Supervision Monitoring & Evaluation Infrastructure & Equipment Transport Communication, Media & Outreach Advocacy General Programme Management

Under each category there are specific activities listed that may be needed for the specific health programme to support the scale-up of direct care interventions. This is also where some of the policy-related activities can be costed, such as activities related to legislation and regulation. For some areas specific forms have been built into the software to facilitate programme activity planning and costing. In-service training is one such example, where a default list of WHO recommended training courses appears that the user may consider for costing. Automatic checks are built in such that targets for in-service training can be directly linked to the number of health workers of each category that will exist in the system. Within the results outputs, the section on "training discussion" provides a summary of all planned in-service training activities and compares the estimated time spent by health workers attending these courses, compared with the existing staff available, by year. Facilitating integrated programme planning Ms Karin Stenberg summarized how OneHealth can facilitate integrated planning processes. In particular, OneHealth can inform the following key steps in planning: • • • • • Analyzing health system performance in relation to health sector goals Setting priorities, including target setting and the assessment of different strategies Estimating the impact and costs of priority options Re-prioritizing and adjusting targets in line with preferred investment strategies and financial resources, including the comparison of different scenarios Finalizing the plan in line with the available financial space

The diagram below illustrates how the different aspects of planning are dealt within the OneHealth tool.

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Outcome targets set

Population in Need Incidence/prevalence Need/severity Care-seeking

In order to achieve the desired outcomes, who (with what needs) should get what services at what time, where and at what cost? Delivery points Type of provider Scale-up trajectory •Public •NGO •Private •Self care •Traditional

Select interventions Treatment inputs Program activities Prices Health Systems

This session also served as a recap of the key OneHealth components. 2.6 Session 6: Bringing it all together

Financial sustainability assessment Dr Chris James provided an overview of how to assess the feasibility for governments to raise additional funds for health, stressing the importance of GDP growth and the share of government resources allocated to health. In this session, the focus was on how such analysis is handled in OneHealth, including relevant exercises for participants. Users enter the following: • • • baseline macroeconomic data financial space assumptions (for up to three scenarios) expenditure distribution assumptions

This produces results in terms of the expected resource envelope available for health (in terms of both general government and total health expenditures), and compares these with plans costed within the tool. Budget mapping Dr Bill Winfrey demonstrated the budget mapping feature in OneHealth that helps the planner translate the costing categories of OneHealth into other budget frameworks used in a specific country setting. These include: • • • standard frameworks for a country's specific department/ministry, donor frameworks, and frameworks that will allow the planner to better understand the implications of the plan.

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The budget mapping tool includes four steps: • • • • Naming the budget Creating or naming categories within the budget Matching the costing categories of OneHealth to the custom budget categories Displaying the results

Future versions of the tool will include pre-set budgets allowing the planner to create a budget based on their plan with one click. Results and outcomes Dr Bill Winfrey demonstrated the various results and outcomes generated by OneHealth. In essence, OneHealth is a tool for communicating the implications of a health plan. OneHealth outputs include various aggregations and disaggregations of costs that help the planner show decision-makers key elements of the plan. Similarly, the tool shows the deaths averted by the plan and the evolving structure of mortality and nutrition status. The tool also includes interactive outputs allowing the planner to compare critical areas of the plan for consistency. For example, the user can compare an estimate of the human resources needed to deliver services with the numbers of staff envisioned in the human resources plan. 2.7 Session 7: Scenarios and priority-setting

Scenarios Dr Bill Winfrey demonstrated how multiple alternative scenarios for the future can be developed in OneHealth. Creating multiple scenarios allows the planner to communicate the costs and impacts of alternative visions of the future to policy makers, and therefore is strongly recommended. The scenarios may for example differ according to variants in the aggressiveness of scale-up, strategies for implementation or price structure of inputs. The simplest method for multiplying the scenarios is to create a “Base” scenario. The planner can save multiple versions of the base scenario and then make changes to the versions to illustrate the impact of alternative paths to the future. The planner may display the results of different scenarios side by side using the “Group” feature of the OneHealth tool. Priority-setting Dr Tessa Edejer stressed that priority setting needs to be done when the need or demand exceeds the available supply. In national health strategic planning, one of the key constraints is financial. In the fiscal space analysis module, one can see by how much and when are the expected costs exceeding the available funds. In this situation, one can then look at the key policy objectives and the interventions and activities that contribute to the attainment of these objectives. One can look at the major cost drivers and validate whether the costing in terms of the quantities and prices are correct and also whether the combination of inputs is efficient. If these are within the resource envelope (i.e. “they are protected or ring-fenced”), one can then look at

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the other programmes and interventions that contribute to secondary policy objectives and start deciding which could be rationalized to fit within the resource envelope. Rationalization can be done by slowing the scale-up curves, cutting down on some programmes or finding more efficient ways of delivering the interventions. The other approach as well is to determine whether the fiscal space can also be expanded further to finance the scale-up of interventions. 2.8 Final session: plenary discussion on the role of OneHealth in strategic planning

The final session was chaired by Dr Tessa Edejer, with the focus very much being on the reflections of participating countries on the role of OneHealth in their specific country settings, and relevant next steps. The main observations are summarised below: Cambodia: the tool should fit into existing costing and planning processes in country, such as the costing of the next health sector strategic plan, and with linkages to the country's medium-term expenditure framework. China: for the tool to be useful in the China context, it may be relevant to undertake separate analyses for each of the provinces. Lao People's Democratic Republic: initially, the representatives thought the tool was only about costing, but appreciated that it goes beyond pure costing work, and could link in well with their 5-year national health plans (especially through the use of scenarios). There were though questions about why different members of team generated different estimates, and suggested there should be a simple way to check in the tool which assumptions have been entered by a user. Malaysia: the participants have not yet been directly involved with planning but more on the implementation side. They noted that OneHealth can help inform implementation, for example through demonstrating health worker shortages compared to national norms and expectations. The team noted that it will be difficult for MNCH to use the tool as an individual programme, and hoped that participations from the Department of Planning and Finance could also be trained on the tool in the future. Mongolia: a national workshop will be planned to introduce OneHealth to national stakeholders. The next step will be to test the tool, first for the maternal and newborn health programme, for which the team requested technical and financial support from WHO. Papua New Guinea: the participants were hopeful that the tool can help make costing more evidence-based, and less of an ad-hoc activity. They proposed the regional office to have a training workshop at the country level for training national health department officers. Philippines: the tool could support planning and integration between programmes. Outputs can be used to justify budgets, and in discussions on absorptive capacity. Solomon Islands: in-country discussions have for a long time been stressing the need for better integration, and whilst it happens at implementation level, it does not occur so much at higher levels. In this regard, OneHealth could be helpful, including costing of their MTEF (with technical support from WHO). As such, they would like to introduce the software to country

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level counterparts. They also noted t would be useful to have clear documentation on the sources of country-specific default data. Viet Nam: the team appreciated the integrated aspect of the tool - using it for costing, impact evaluation, programme planning, etc. This is because planning in Vietnam has so far been done to specify activities and intervention but without being able to predict impact. The team found the software user-friendly, although some more help menus, more information in the help manual, including definitions of terminology, would be useful. These country comments were followed by further observations from Dr Henk Bekedam and Dr Han Tieru. Both stressed the need to bring health programmes and health system planning together, and the value of OneHealth in this process. They also saw the tool as a useful advocacy tool for showing the health impact, and the extent to which there is sufficient fiscal space for health. Both stressed the need for the tool to include clear reporting on what assumptions have gone into the modelling process, and that the tool needs to fit into overall planning processes in different country contexts.

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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The following are the conclusions and recommended next steps: Participants found the OneHealth tool to provide added value in linking planning and costing work, thereby ensuring plans are appropriately and realistically costed, and reflect the health sector's absorptive capacity. This includes comparing a costed plan with the expected overall financial constraints faced by a country's health system. OneHealth is useful in bringing together programme-specific experts with health system experts. OneHealth therefore has significant potential to help simplify and harmonise national planning and costing processes under one unified platform. OneHealth helps link together the cost of activities with actual health-relevant outputs and outcomes, by demonstrating improved coverage rates for key interventions and associated expected improvements in actual health outcomes. In this way, it can be a useful advocacy tool for health ministries when negotiating with finance ministries for additional funding for health. For OneHealth to be used to its full potential it was recommended that its use should fit into existing costing and planning processes in a country, such as the costing of countries' actual health sector plans. There should also be a simpler way for checking within the tool the assumptions entered by the user. Default data was found to be useful, but clear documentation should be included on these data, and the default data included should be more comprehensive. Future workshops in one specific country would be useful, loading the data for that country in advance so the workshop can influence policy decisions in that country as well as being a useful training exercise. A number of the participating countries were interested in such a workshop, and the Regional Office will follow up on the timing and nature of such future workshops.

ANNEX 1

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS, RESOURCE PERSONS, REPRESENTATIVES OF AGENCIES/OBSERVERS, AND SECRETARIAT

1. PARTICIPANTS CAMBODIA Dr Mao Heng Deputy Director of Phnom Penh Municipality Health Department #101 Monyret Boulevard Khan Tourlkork Phnom Penh Tel. Nos.: (855) 12 837336 Fax Nos.: (855) 23 883594 Email: drmaoheng@hotmail.com Dr Ly Vichea Ravouth Vice Chief Bureau of Planning Policy and Health Sector Reform Department of Planning and Health Information Ministry of Health No. 151-153, Avenue Kampuchea Krom Phnom Penh Tel. Nos.: (855) 12 687724 Email: vichealy@yahoo.com CHINA Dr Yang Li Associate Professor School of Public Health Peking University No 38 Xueyuan Raod, Haidian District Beijing 100191 Tel. Nos.: (86 10) 82805650 Fax Nos.: (86 10) 82805650 Email: lyang@bjmu.edu.cn Dr Luo Rong Registered Senior Doctor in Public Health National Center for Women and Children Health China Center for Disease Prevention and Control No. 400 Xiao Nanzhuang Block Wan Quanhe Road Haidian District, Beijing 100089 Tel. Nos.: 86 10 82647896 Email: luorong@chinawch.org.cn. LAO PDR Dr Manisone Oudom Head of Planning Section Maternal and Child Health Centre Ministry of Health Nongborn Road, Saysetha District Vientiane Tel. Nos.: (856.21) 452519 (20) Fax Nos.: (856 21) 452519 and 856 21 452562 Email: omanisone@yahoo.co.uk

Dr Kotsaythoune Phimmasone Technical Staff Budgeting and Planning Department Department of Planning and Finance Ministry of Health Simeuang Road, Sisathanack District Vientiane Tel. Nos.: (856-21) 2122-26-30 Fax Nos.: (856-21) 2122-26-30 Email: pkotsaythoune@yahoo.com Mr Phoukham Soulat Ministry of Finance, Budget Department 23 Singha Road, Nongboon Village Saysattha District, Vientiane Tel. Nos.: (856) 30 9809053 Fax Nos.: (856) 21 911 610 Email: mackhan7674@yahoo.com MALAYSIA Dr Faridah Abu Bakar Deputy Director Family Health Development Division Ministry of Health Level 8, Block E10, Complex Federal Government Centre 62590 Putrajaya Tel. Nos.: (603) 8883 4003 Fax Nos.: (603) 8888 6150 Email: drfabs@moh.gov.my Dr Rahmah Binti Ibrahim Senior Principal Assistant Director Pahang State Health Department Level 12, Wisma Persekutuan Jalan Gambut 25000, Kuantan, Pahang Tel. Nos.: (609) 290 2342 Fax Nos.: (609) 513 5528 Email: amami@phg.moh.gov.my MONGOLIA Mr Bazarkhurel Gankhuyag Officer-in-Charge for Financial Accounting and Supervision Financing and Impact Analysis for Major Health Strategies Ministry of Health Ministry of Health Government Building VIII Olympic Street-2 Ulaan Baatar-48 Tel. Nos.: (976) 88114432 Ms Bolorchimeg Taazan Officer in Charge Budget Planning and Coordination of Health Care Facilities Department of Finance and Investment Ministry of Finance Government Building VIII Olympic Street-2 Ulaan Baatar-48 Tel. Nos.: (976) 99094363

Dr Buyanjargal Yadamsuren Officer in Charge of Policy Coordination and Implementation Maternal and Newborn Health Care Department of Medical Care Policy Implementation and Coordination, Ministry of Health Government Building VIII Olympic Street-2 Ulaan Baatar-48 Tel. Nos.: (976) 99190750 Fax Nos.: (976) 11263846 Email: buyanjargal@yahoo.com PAPUA NEW GUINEA Dr William Lagani Manager Family Health Services National Department of Health P.O. Box 807, Waigani, N.C.D. Tel. Nos.: (675) 3013707/76024688 Fax Nos.: (675) 323 9710 Email: William_lagani@health.gov.pg. Mr Maluo Magaru Tehcnical Officer – School Health National Department of Health P.O. Box 807 Waigani, N.C.D Tel. Nos.: (675) 3013722 Fax Nos.: (675) 3239710 Email: m_magaru@hotmail.com Mr James Noah PIP Coordinator Health Economic Unit National Department of Health P.O. Box 807, Waigani, N.C.D. Tel. Nos.: (675) 3013878 Fax Nos.: (675) 323 9670 Email: aipiyan@yahoo.com Ms Julieanne Omaro Technical Officer – Safe Motherhood National Department of Health P.O. Box 807, Waigani, N.C.D. Tel. Nos.: (675) 3013720 Fax Nos.: (675) 3239710 Email: julieanneomaro@gmail.com Mr Joseph Sowa Strategic Planner National Department of Health P.O. Box 807, Waigani, N.C.D. Tel. Nos.: (675) 301 3878 Fax Nos.: (675) 323 9675 Email: joseph.sowa@health.gov.pg

PHILIPPINES

Ms Luzviminda Garcia Supervising Health Program Officer Department of Health Building 3, San Lazaro Compound, Rizal Avenue, Sta. Cruz, 1003 Manila Tel. Nos.: (63 2) 7329956 Fax Nos.: (63 2) 7329956 Email: luzcgarcia@ymail.com Ms Onofria de Guzman Senior Health Programme Officer Department of Health Building 3, San Lazaro Compound, Rizal Avenue, Sta. Cruz, 1003 Manila Tel. Nos.: (63 2) 7329956 Fax Nos.: (63 2) 7329956 Email: riadeguzman03@yahoo.com Ms Liberty Importa Supervising Health Programme Officer National Center for Disease Prevention and Control Department of Health Building 3, San Lazaro Compound, Rizal Avenue, Sta. Cruz, 1003 Manila Tel: (63 2) 4555061 Fax: (63 2) 7329956 Email: limporta@yahoo.com Dr Lester Tan Medical Officer Department of Health Building 3, San Lazaro Compound Rizal Avenue, Sta. Cruz, 1003 Manila Tel: (63 2) 71167361 Fax: (63 2) 7116736 Email: dr.lestermetan@gmail.com

SOLOMON ISLANDS

Mr Stephen Kido Dalipada Financial Controller Ministry of Health and Medical Services PO Box 349, Honiara Tel. Nos.: (677) 24532 Fax Nos.: (677) 20085 Email: sdalipada@moh.gov.sb. Dr Divinal Ogaoga Medical Officer Child Health Ministry of Health and Medical Services PO Box 349, Honiara Tel. Nos.: (677) 7496343 Fax Nos.: (677) 20085 Email: dogaoga@moh.gov.sb Mr Oswald Ramo Under Secretary for Administration and Finance Ministry of Health and Medical Services PO Box 349, Honiara Tel. Nos.: 677 27516 Fax Nos.: 677 20085 Email: oramo@moh.gov.sb.

VIET NAM

Mr Ngo Manh Vu Officer of Planning and Finance Department Planning and Finance Department, Ministry of Health No. 138A Giang Vo Street Badinh district Ha Noi Tel. Nos.: (84 4) 62732215 Fax Nos.: (84 4) 624732209 Email: nmvumoh@gmail.com Dr Tran Hoang Nam Expert of Maternal and Child Health Department Ministry of Health No. 138A Giang Vo Street Badinh district Ha Noi Tel. Nos.: (84 43) 8464060 Fax Nos.: (84 43) 8464060 Email: nam.th69@gmail.com. Dr Vu Thanh Nam Expert Department of Planning and Finance 138 A GiangVo BaDinh Ha Noi Tel. Nos.: 0903218064 Email: vuthanhnam_moh_on@fastmail.fm;

2. RESOURCE PERSONS Mr Rod Bennett Health Systems Planning and Development Consultant Futures Institute Bull Farm, Church Street, Woodhurst, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE28 3BN Tel. Nos.: +44 1487 822 035 Email: rod@rod-bennett.net Mr Jean-Marc Thome Swiss Red Cross Delegate in Lao PDR Health Financing and Access to Health Care LRC HEF Office, Setthatirath Avenue, Impasse Xiengnhune, Vientiane Lao PDR Tel. Nos.: (856 21) 215935 Fax Nos.: (856 21) 2184948 Email: jmthome@laopdr.com Dr William Winfrey Senior Economist Futures Institute 41-A New London Tpke Glastonbury, CT06033 United States of America Tel. Nos.: 1-860-657-5300 Email: bwinfrey@futuresinstitute.org

3. REPRESENTATIVES OF AGENCIES/OBSERVERS USAID Dr Annie Asanza Health Policy Development Program U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID Philippines) 8th Floor PNB Financial Center Pres. Diosdado Macapagal Blvd. 1308 Pasay City, Philippines Tel. Nos.: (632) 552-9900 Fax Nos.: (632) 552-9999 Dr Rudolf Knippenberg Principal Adviser, Programmes United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 3 United Nations Plaza 10017 New York United States of America Tel. Nos.: (1) 212-326 7598 Email: rknippenberg@unicef.org Dr Bobby Rosadia Health Specialist World Bank Office Manila 23/F The Taipan Place, F. Ortigas Jr. Road Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel. Nos.: (632) 637-5855 Fax Nos.: (632) 637-5870 Email: rrosadia@worldbank.org

UNICEF/EAPRO

WORLD BANK

4. SECRETARIAT WHO/WPRO Dr Marianna Trias (Responsible Officer) Team Leader, Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition Division of Building Healthy Communities and Populations WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel. No.: (632) 528 9863/528 9869 Fax No. : (632) 521 1036 E-mail : triasj@wpro.who.int Dr Dorjsuren Bayarsaikhan (Co-Responsible Officer) Team Leader in Health Care Financing Division of Health Sector Development WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel. No.: 632-5289808 Fax No. : (632) 521 1036 Email: bayarsaikhand@wpro.who.int

Dr Tommaso Cavalli-Sforza Regional Adviser in Nutrition Maternal , Child Health and Nutrition Division of Building Healthy Communities and Populations WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel. No.: (632) 528 9863/528 9864 Fax No. : (632) 521 1036 E-mail : cavallisforzal@wpro.who.int Ms Joana Crespo Programme Management and Administrative Officer Division of Health Sector Development WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel. No.: (632) 5289068 Fax No. : (632) 521 1036 Email: crespoj@wpro.who.int Dr Chris James(Co-Responsible Officer) Technical Officer – Macroeconomics and Health Division of Health Sector Development WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel no. (632) 5289849 Fax no. (632) 5211036 Email: jamesc@wpro.who.int Dr Ardi Kaptiningsih Regional Adviser in Making Pregnancy Safer/Women and Reproductive Health Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition Division of Building Healthy Communities and Populations WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel. No.: (63-2) 528 9876 Fax No.: (63-2) 526 0279 Email: kaptiningsiha@wpro.who.int Dr Emmalita Mañalac Medical Officer Child and Adolescent Health Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition Division of Building Healthy Communities and Populations WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel. No.: (63-2) 528 9871 Fax No.: (63-2) 526 0279 Email: manalace@wpro.who.int

Mr Josh Nealon Technical Officer Division of Combating Communicable Diseases WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel. No.: 632-52889760 Fax No. : (632) 521 1036 Email: nealonj@wpro.who.int Dr Hiromi Obara Medical Officer in Reproductive Health Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition Division of Building Healthy Communities and Populations WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel. No.: (63-2) 528 9878 Fax No.: (63-2) 526 0279 Email: obarah@wpro.who.int Dr Momoe Takeuchi Technical Officer Health Service Development Division of Health Sector Development WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel no. (632) 5289084 Fax no. (632) 5211036 Email: takeuchim@wpro.who.int Mr Bernard Tomas Technical Officer Country Support Unit WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel no. (632) 5289727 Fax no. (632) 5211036 Email: tomasb@wpro.who.int Ms Li Xiaoyun Intern Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition Division of Building Healthy Communities and Populations WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel. No.: (632) 528 9083 Fax No.: (632) 526 0279 E-mail: lixi@wpro.who.int

Dr Dongbao Yu Epidemiologist Division of Combating Communicable Diseases WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932 1000 Manila Philippines Tel. No.: (632) 52889711 Fax No. : (632) 521 1036 Email: yud@wpro.who.int

WHO/Headquarters

Dr Tessa Edejer Coordinator HQ/CEP Costs Effectiveness, Expenditure and Priority WHO Headquarters Geneva Switzerland Tel. Nos.: (41) 22 79 13497 Fax Nos.: (41) 795090684 Email: tantorrest@who.int Dr Blerta Maliqi Health Systems Technical Officer Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health Development Department WHO Headquarters Geneva Tel. Nos.: (41 22) 7915037 Fax Nos.: (41 22) 7914853 Email: maliqib@who.int Dr Mikael Ostergren Programme Manager Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Department WHO Headquarters Geneva Switzerland Tel. Nos.: (41 22) 79 13931 Fax Nos.: (41 22) 791 4853 Email: ostergrenm@who.int Dr Walaiporn Patcharan Technical Officer Health Systems Financing WHO Headquarters Geneva Switzerland Tel. Nos.: (41 22) 79 13558 Email: patcharanarumolw@who.int Ms Karin Stenberg Technical Officer Health Systems Financing WHO Headquarters Geneva Switzerland Tel. Nos.: (41 22) 79 11022 Email: stenbergk@who.int

WHO/Cambodia

Dr Howard Sobel Medical Officer Office of the WHO Representative in Cambodia No. 177-179 corner Streets Pasteur (51) and 254 Sangkat Chak Tomok, Khan Daun Penh P.O. Box 1215 Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tel. No.: (855) 23-216610 Fax No.: (855) 23-216211 E-mail: sobelh@wpro.who.int Dr Benjamin Lane Technical Officer Office of the WHO Representative in Cambodia No. 177-179 corner Streets Pasteur (51) and 254 Sangkat Chak Tomok, Khan Daun Penh P.O. Box 1215 Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tel. no. (855-23) 2810 Fax no. (855-23) 216211 Email: laneb@cam.wpro.who.int

WHO/China

Ms He Jing National Programme Officer WHO Representative Office in the People's Republic of China 401, Dongwai Diplomatic Office Building 23, Dongzhimenwai Dajie Chaoyang District Beijing 1000600 Tel. No.: (86 10) 65327190 Fax No.: (86 10) 65322359 Email: hej@wpro.who.int. Dr Robert Scherpbier Medical Officer WHO Representative Office in the People's Republic of China 401, Dongwai Diplomatic Office Building 23, Dongzhimenwai Dajie Chaoyang District Beijing 1000600 Tel. No.: (86-10) 6532 7189 Fax No.: (86-10) 6532 2359 E-mail: scherpbierr@wpro.who.int Dr Wen Chunmei National Programme Officer WHO Representative Office in the People's Republic of China 401, Dongwai Diplomatic Office Building 23, Dongzhimenwai Dajie Chaoyang District Beijing 1000600 Tel. No.: (86-10) 6532 7189 Fax No.: (86-10) 6532 2359 Email: wenc@wpro.who.int

WHO/Lao PDR

Dr Valeria de Oliveira-Cruz Technical Officer in Health Financing and Health Systems Development Office of the WHO Representative in Lao PDR 125 Saphanthong Road, Unit 5, Ban Saphanthongtai, Sisattanak District, Vientiane Capital Lao People's Democratic Republic Tel no. 85621-353 902/3/4 Ext 81831 Fax no. 85621-353905 Email: Deoliveiracruzv@wpro.who.int Mrs Phomkong Sylivanh Office of the WHO Representative in Lao PDR 125 Saphanthong Road, Unit 5, Ban Saphanthongtai, Sisattanak District, Vientiane Capital Lao People's Democratic Republic Tel. Nos.: 85621-353 902/4 Ext. 81844 Fax Nos.: 85621-353905 Email: phomkongs@wpro.who.int.

WHO/Mongolia

Ms Erdenechimeg Enkhee National Programme Officer Office of the WHO Representative in Mongolia Post Box – 663, Ulaanbaatar-13, Mongolia Tel no. 97611-327870 Fax no. 97611-324683 Email: enkheee@mog.wpro.who.int Dr Norbert Rehlis Medical Officer WHO Representative Office in Papua New Guinea 4th Floor, AOPI CENTRE Waigani Drive, Port Moresby P.O. Box 5896, Boroko NCD Tel. No: (675) 325 7827 Fax No: (675) 325 0568 Email: rehlisn@wpro.who.int Dr Mariella Castillo Technical Officer Office of the WHO Representative in the Philippines Ground Floor, Bldg. 3 Department of Health Rizal Avenue corner Tayuman Street Sta. Cruz, Manila, Philippines Tel. No.: (632) 338 7479 Fax No.: (632) 528 9060 Email: castillomar@wpro.who.int Ms Lucille Nievera National Programme Officer National Tuberculosis Centre Building Office of the WHO Representative in the Philippines Ground Floor, Bldg. 3 Department of Health Rizal Avenue corner Tayuman Street Sta. Cruz, Manila, Philippines Tel no.: (632) 743 - 8301 Ext 1931 Fax no.: (632) 7313914 Email: nieveral@phl.wpro.who.int

WHO/Papua New Guinea

WHO/Philippines

WHO/Viet Nam

Dr Ornella Lincetto Medical Officer WHO Representative Office in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam 63 Tran Hung Dao Street Hoan Kiem District Ha Noi, Viet Nam Tel. No.: (844) 943 3734 to 36 Fax No: (844) 943 3740 E-mail: lincettor@wpro.who.int Ms Thi Kim Phuong Nguyen National Programme Officer – Health Financing Office of the WHO Representative in Viet Nam 63 Tran Hung Dao Street, Hoan Kiem District Ha Noi, Viet Nam Tel. no. 844-9433734 Fax no. 844-9433740 Email: nguyenthik@vtn.wpro.who.int

Training Workshop on Strategic Planning and Costing for Maternal and Child Health Using the United Nations OneHealth Tool 7–10 November 2011, Manila, Philippines AGENDA Time 08:00–09:00 Day 1, Monday, 7 November Registration (including checks of software installations) (1) Opening Workshop objectives and agenda Coffee/tea break (including group photo) 09:00–10:15 Session 1: Setting the scene: strategic planning and costing for improved health outcomes 10:15–11:15 (2) Overview of planning processes, costing and OneHealth National health policies,strategies and plans Strategic planning for maternal and child health (3) The role of OneHealth for informing planning processes Costing health plans in countries: the role of OneHealth (10) Intervention costing 1: setting the population in need and delivery channels Population in need Delivery channels Exercise 3: population in need, delivery channels (coverage distribution) Coffee/Tea break (11) Intervention costing 2: setting the treatment inputs Introduction to treatment inputs Exercise 4: setting the treatment inputs 09:15–10:15 (15) Logistics Overview of logistics module and linkages to programme planning Coffee/tea break Exercise 9: logistics planning (16) Overview of other health system components Health information system Governance Health financing Recapitulation and plenary discussion on the "Health Systems" tab 08:30–09:00 Time 08:15–08:30 Day 2, Tuesday, 8 November Summary of Day 1 Session 3: Maternal and child health–specific programme planning within OneHealth (9) Overview of basic costing concepts and their application in OneHealth Time 08:15–08:30 08:30–09:15 Day 3, Wednesday, 9 November Summary of Day 2 (14) Infrastructure and equipment Boundaries between systems and programme planning Overview of Infrastructure module and linkages to programme planning Exercise 8: infrastructure planning Time 08:15–08:30

4 November 2011 ENGLISH ONLY

Day 4, Thursday, 10 November Summary of Day 3 Session 6: Bringing it together

09:00–09:45 09:30–09:45 09:45–10:15

08:30–09:15

(19) Financial sustainability assessment Concepts of financial sustainability Overview of the financial space analysis in OneHealth Exercise 11a: adjusting parameters for financial space (20) Budget mapping Mapping costs to a national budget format Overview of the budget mapping function in OneHealth Exercise 11b: budget mapping Coffee/tea break (21) Results and outcomes View results and outcomes Exercise 12: results and outcomes

09:15–10:15

10:15–10:30 10:30–11:00 11:00–11:30

10:15–10:30 10:30–12:00

11:15–12:00

10:15–10:30 10:30–12:00

11:30–12:00 12:00–13:00 Session 2: Getting started with OneHealth 13:00–14:00 (4) Overview of OneHealth software: structure, content and results produced Health systems and health services Links between modules Results produced 14:30–15:00 14:00–15:00 (5) Setting up core data: the "Health Services" tab Opening and saving OneHealth projections Configuration of the model to country context Exercise 1: create a test projection Exercise 2a: setting up core data, edit programme areas and interventions Coffee/Tea break (6) Setting up core data the "Health Systems" tab General health system information Exercise 2b: setting up core data, edit general health system information (7) Linkages between mortality profile, activities, budgets and impact (8) Reviewing background data and country information Viewing the demographic and epidemiological background data in OneHealth tool Reviewing a country baseline health profile 18:00 RECEPTION 13:00–14:30

LUNCH BREAK (12) Setting intervention coverage targets Baseline coverage and scale-up trajectories Bottleneck analysis Exercise 5: baseline coverage Exercise 6: specifying coverage scale-up trajectories Recapitulation and plenary discussion on the "Health Services" tab 15:00–15:15 15:00–15:15 Coffee/tea break 15:15–16:00 Session 4: Health systems planning within OneHealth 16:00–16:45 15:15–16:45 (13) Human resources for health Overview and linkages to programme planning Exercise 7: human resources for health Exploring human resource policy options Exercise 10: programme activity costing – training costs (18) Facilitating integrated programme planning Overview 14:45–15:00 15:00–16:00 Coffee/tea break (24) Plenary discussion on the role of OneHealth in strategic planning OneHealth application process Opportunities Next steps (25) Summary and closing Session 5: Planning and costing programme activitie, looking at synergies 13:00–14:00 13:30–15:00 (17) Programme activity costing Overview Programme activity costing Implications of programme costs (training) on staff time Coffee/tea break Session 7: Scenarios and priority-setting (22) Scenarios Viewing scenarios side-by-side Exercise 13: scenario comparisons (23) Priority-setting Priority-setting based on scenarios, financial sustainability and programme goals

14:00–14:45

15:00–15:15 15:15–16:00

16:00–16:30

16:00–16:30 16:30–17:00

ANNEX 3

Training Workshop on Strategic Planning and Costing for Maternal and Child Health Using the UN OneHealth Tool Manila, Philippines, 7-10 November 2011

Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition - Health Care Financing WHO Western Pacific Region 1

MCH Service Coverage Gaps Pre-pregnancy 100

Pregnancy

Birth

Postnatal

Neonatal

Infancy

Childhood

80

60

50 40

20

50.6 0

91

61

62

57.8

34

70

91

92

59

54.8

52

50.5

53

76

C on tr ac ep A tl tiv ea e st pr ev 1 an al en te na ce N t a eo lc na ar e ta lt vi si et ts an us S pr ki o lle te d ct E ar at io n te ly nd in iti an at ta io tb n of irt br h ea C om E st xc fe pl e l us em di iv ng en e ta br ry ea fe st fe ed ed in g in (6 g -9 m on th D s) P T 3 im V ita m M m un ea in iz at A sl es io su n pp im m le m un en iz at ta io tio C n n ar (2 es do ee ki se ng s) fo r pn A nt e ib um io tic on s ia fo rp ne um D on ia rr ia Im ho pr ea ov tre ed at sa m ni en ta t tio n Im fa pr ci ov lit ie ed s dr in ki ng w at er

Median national coverage among 7 high-burden countries for maternal and child deaths in WPR

Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition – Health Care Financing WHO Western Pacific Region 2

Health Systems and MCH Human Resources Medicines and Technologies

Health Outcomes: MDG 4: Reduce child mortality •Reduce by 2/3, between 1990 and 2015, the U5MR •MDG 5: Improve maternal health •Reduce by 3/4, between 1990 and 2015, the MMR •Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

Leadership and Governance Financing

Service Delivery

Information Adapted from Everybody's Business: Strengthening health systems to improve health outcomes: WHO Framework for action, 2007

Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition – Health Care Financing WHO Western Pacific Region 3

What Can OneHealth Tool Facilitate? Strategic health planning including costing at the national level - focus on improving service coverage for cost-effective and evidence-based interventions Integrated planning among health outcome programmes such as MCH, and health systems programmes - joint ownership of the planning process with shared accountability to achieve national health objectives - feasible scale-up plans that take into account health system capacity, resource implications and the expected impact → Improved priority setting → Improved service delivery Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition – Health Care Financing WHO Western Pacific Region 4

Workshop Objectives At the end of the workshop, participants will have developed capacities to: Apply the OneHealth Tool to cost health-related interventions in different country contexts, and generate basic costing projections for maternal and child health programmes; Perform a strategic assessment of the health systems performance and capacity for key interventions for maternal and child health and determine key areas of concern; Develop and compare alternative scenarios for planning scaling-up actions, and examining the financial implications and the expected reduction in disease burden (morbidity and mortality); and Assess health system implications for scaling up and ensuring sustained delivery of maternal and child health interventions, including related programme activities. Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition – Health Care Financing WHO Western Pacific Region 5

Workshop Content Session 1: Session 2: Session 3: Session 4: Session 5: Session 6: Session 7: Setting the scene: strategic planning and costing for improved health outcomes; Getting started with OneHealth Maternal and child health –specific programme planning within OneHealth Health systems planning within OneHealth Planning and costing programme activities, looking at synergies Bringing it all together Scenarios and priority setting

Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition – Health Care Financing WHO Western Pacific Region 6

National Health Policies, Strategies and Plans (NHPSP)

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Challenges facing the health system Increasing expectations on the ... but, increasing dissatisfaction health system …… with health services

Changing epidemiology and economies (e.g. NCD/aging) ... Calls to scale up … Increased funding (in some areas) in health … Many new partners … Rise of the private sector … Recognition of multi-sectoral nature of health (SDH) … … 2|

… but MDGs 4 and 5 at risk … but, capacity lacking, especially capacity shared across the system … but, is there value for money?

… but,increasing fragmentation … but, clear rules of engagement often lacking … but, coordination is problematic

… Building global capacity for policy dialogue | 15 June 2012

New foundations since 2000

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100+ health partners in just one country KfW HMN PEPFAR GAVI PMI

EC GTZ BTC AECI KOICA

AusAid

International Health Partnership Global Fund to Fight ATM PMNCH Catalytic Initiative

JICA AFD

DFID

UNITAID

CDC

Stop TB RBM

USAID

MOH MoP SC RACHA KHANA

WB UNFPA

ADB WHO UNICEF UNAIDS

MoF MoEd

MoH RHAC

HNI

pharm SRC Doctors Nursing URC Oxfam

WFP

UNDP

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Viet Nam salaries for HIV/AIDS programs 900 100150 500

Cambodia salaries for health programs 1,800 1,200 800 250-400

50-100

MoH

DFID

WB

GFATM*

50-200 MoH DFID GFATM GFATM Round 4 Round5 National programs

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MoH salaries ranged $50-100 per month DFID offers health worker incentives in HIV/AIDS program; WB begins programs with significantly higher pay in overlapping districts where “poaching” will occur GFATM granted PR (MoH HIV/AIDS program) salary request of $900 per month for program managers Donor and GHP practices lead to escalating distortion of salaries and poaching of resources within HIV/AIDS sector Global Learning Program for National Health Strategic Planning

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MoH salaries ranged from $50 to few hundred per month CCM decided to pay GFATMassociated employee $1,200 per month For Round 5 grant proposal, CCM further escalating salary cap ($1,200 + annual increase) National programs followed suit for increasing salaries, resulting in major country-wide salary inflation “This has been phenomenally destructive.”

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* Increase for program managers only of GFATM grants

Impact on countries ••Fragmented Fragmentedfunding fundingand/or and/or funding outside funding outsidethe thenational national budget budgetand andplan plan ••Undermines Underminesgovernment governmentcapacity capacity ••too many proposals, too many proposals, ••too toomany manymeetings, meetings, ••too many monitoring too many monitoring demands demands ••Duplication Duplicationof ofservices servicesand and supplies – or even supplies – or evencompetition competition between betweenprojects projectsand anddonors donors

•• Waste Wasteof ofscarce scarce resources resources •• Inefficient Inefficientuse use of offunds funds •• Lack Lackof ofcountry country leadership leadershipand and ownership ownership

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What is “a coherent and balanced health plan”? Scope of plan Coverage of programs Broad - whole of Narrow sub-set of health sector, e.g. health sector e.g. public, NGO, church, govt services only private services Health sector & beyond – e.g. plus Education

None

Partial

Full

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Programme Programme-specific Context -specific national plans are out of sync Review of national health plans shows asynchronous disease programme planning Example: Afghanistan 2005 2006 National Health Plan Immunization TB HIV/AIDS Reproductive Health Maternal Health CAH Nutrition 2007 2008 1 1 2009 2010 2011 1 1 1 2012 1 2013 1 2014 2015

Learning for cycle National Health Strategic Planning 8 | Global Source: WHO Program planning data base

What do we know about planning? Idealized More than the sum of programme plans such as MCH, TB, NCDs … Blueprints won't work It is not only the "plan“- the process is more important! … but the process is usually messy… This is why inclusive and procedural policy dialogue is key 9| Global Learning Program for National Health Strategic Planning

Real-life

Health system building blocks System building blocks Service Delivery

Goals/outcomes

Health Workforce Information

Access Coverage

Improved health (level and equity)

Responsiveness

Medical products, Technologies Health Financing Leadership / Governance Quality Safety Efficiency Social & financial risk protection

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What is “a coherent and balanced health plan”? Scope of plan Coverage of programs Broad - whole of Narrow sub-set of health sector, e.g. health sector e.g. public, NGO, church, govt services only private services Health sector & beyond – e.g. plus Education

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Service delivery model outlines: • how the community enters and interacts with the health system • what types of facilities and services are available at each level, and when facilities or services are open • who does what - the number and mix of staff at each level, what they can and should do, and how they work together • referral system and controls on access to higher level services – incentives to providers and patients to comply • linkages between levels of service, e.g. communication, transport, supervision, specialist visiting, financial linkages, etc. • non-state providers role and how they interact with state services to support reaching national and local health goals

Health workforce •

Need balance across categories and skills mix relevant to the care packages Need geographical balance in relation to population distribution Staff need – – –

to understand their role, standards expected, and where to seek help guidelines and necessary resources to do a professional job to be supervised in a supportive manner, feel they are valued and doing a worthwhile job to be paid appropriately and treated fairly

Essential medicines Medicines: forecasting, financing, selection, purchase, supply, distribution, storage, prescription and use – related to the care packages, priced to promote equity – and managed to avoid stock-outs Clinical Practice Guidelines: for correct use of medical supplies, and avoiding wastage Health workers: capable to use correctly - indication, dose, frequency, duration, drug interactions, and patient education Patient response: access to essential drugs adverse reactions, resistance or compliance

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Health Infrastructure

• • • •

Facilities and equipment need to be in line with the service delivery model and packages Define minimum standards appropriate to context Need a system on how to decide when to introduce new technology Acquisition and maintenance of buildings and equipment are driving forces behind service delivery quality & cost

Health financing 3 fundamental challenges

1. Raise sufficient funds for health → enough funds to ensure priority health interventions are available

2. Minimise reliance on direct “out-of-pocket” payments → priority health interventions are guaranteed at point of use

3. Make best use of available resources → value for money

HIS:Monitoring versus performance • Monitoring health systems – – – – – – Financing Governance Human resources Service delivery Essential medicines Information

• Health system performance* – Effective coverage of interventions • Curative • Preventive • Insectoral

– Affordability – Mortality, morbidity * Liu et all Lancet November 2008

Per capita expenditure by region: Philippines, 2003 2000

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What is a good national health plan? (from the JANS tool of IHP) 5 groups of generic attributes considered the foundation of a sound national strategy – Situation analysis and programming Clarity and relevance of priorities and strategies based on a sound situation analysis – Process through which national strategy has been developed – Costs and financing Soundness and feasibility of the financial framework – Implementation and management arrangements – Monitoring, evaluation and review mechanisms Soundness of review and evaluation mechanisms and how their results are used

What is “a coherent and balanced health plan”? Scope of plan Coverage of programs Broad - whole of Narrow sub-set of health sector, e.g. health sector e.g. public, NGO, church, govt services only private services Health sector & beyond – e.g. plus Education

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Strategic planning for maternal and child health Dr Mikael Ostergren Department for Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health FWC / WHO

A great challenge …. EVERY YEAR: 7.6 million children die before their 5th birthday – 3.2 million newborn babies in the first month of life – 2.4 million infants between 1 – 12 months 356,000 women die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth – 3 million stillbirths

These are silent tragedies that have to be prevented

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Global burden of disease across age groups

Source: Gore et al. Lancet 2011; 377: 2093-102

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The way forward By 2015: Saving 16 million lives of women and children Preventing 33 million unwanted pregnancies Protecting 88 million children from stunting Protecting 120 million children from pneumonia

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Accountability

Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health (2011)

10 recommendations for global and country action

Independent review group for international oversight

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ITU/V. Martin

1st Meeting of the Commissioners, WHO HQ, Geneva, 26 January 2011

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10 actionable recommendations

– Recommendations 1-3: Better information for better results

– Recommendations 4-6: Better tracking of resources for women's and children's health

– Recommendations 7-10: Better oversight of results and resources: nationally and globally

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Better information for better results Eleven indicators Three tracer indicators: – maternal mortality ratio – under-5 child mortality (with the proportion of newborn deaths) – children under 5 who are stunted Eight coverage indicators: – met need for contraception – antenatal care coverage – antiretroviral prophylaxis among HIV positive pregnant women to prevent motherto-child transmission of HIV – skilled attendant at birth – postnatal care (within 48 hours of childbirth) for mother and child – breastfeeding exclusively for 6 months – three doses of the combined diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus vaccine – children with suspected pneumonia receiving antibiotics.

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Maternal and child health – a key outcome in national health plans Maternal & child health

MDG 4 & 5 The Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health

National health plan

Regional maternal & child health strategies in all WHO regions

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Planning and management cycles Evaluate programme coverage and health impact (510 yearly) E.g. DHS, MICS

Manage implementation (Ongoing)

Develop strategic plan (5-10 yearly) Prepare for review of implementation status (1–2 yearly)

Develop implementation plan (1-2 yearly)

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Programmatic pathway for improving maternal and child survival and health IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVITIES Advocacy for maternal and child health Human, material and financial resource mobilization Human resource capacity development Communication with families & communities Health system supports strengthened Progress tracked IMPROVED Availability and access to health care Quality of care Demand for care Knowledge of families and communities INCREASED POPULATIONBASED COVERAGE of key effective interventions IMPROVED SURVIVAL AND HEALTH

Other determinants

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Health system building blocks System building blocks Service Delivery Health Workforce Information Medical products, Technologies Health Financing Leadership / Governance Quality Safety Improved efficiency Social & financial risk protection Access Coverage Responsiveness Multiple, dynamic interactionsPriorities in each 12 |

Goals/outcomes Improved health (level and equity)

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Health system building blocks and maternal and child health System building blocks Service Delivery Referral systems in place Packaging of MCH interv.

Access Coverage Scale up of proven effective MCH interventions

Goals/outcomes Improved health MMR & U5 mortality Improved nutrition

Multiple, dynamic interactionsPriorities in each 13 | 14 |

Health Workforce Midwifes available Health workers trained Information Vital registration

Responsiveness

Medical products, Technologies Essential medicines for MCH Health Financing Out of pocket payment Leadership / Governance Policies for MCH, ie pneumonia treatment at community level

Social & financial risk protection Quality Safety Improved efficiency

Steps for strategic planning for maternal and child health

OneHealth supports several steps

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In conclusion…. A good (MNCAH) program strategic plan is a prerequisite for sound inputs to a National plan…and a good national plan should reflect key (MNCAH) program issues The (MNCAH) program strategic planning cycle should be synchronized with the national health planning cycle The OneHealth supports both National health planning and (MNCAH) program strategic planning

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Overview of basic cost concepts, and their application in the OneHealth tool

Tools incorporated into OneHealth Tool MBB WHO (stop TB) WHO (iHTP) Specific areas incorporated Bottleneck analysis, Fiscal space analysis; Budget mapping TB planning Detailed intervention planning for RMNCH (staff time minutes; drugs commodities) Impact for child and maternal health Costs for HIV/AIDS interventions Impact for HIV/AIDS interventions Intervention costing for child health; Overall Framework for Programme Activity Costing Impact for Family Planning interventions Costing reproductive health interventions

LiST (Lives Saves Tool) Resource Needs Model AIM, GOALS WHO ( Child Health Cost Estimation tool) FamPlan UNFPA RH costing tool

Cost Concepts - Revision • Economic – value of resources used up (whether paid for financially or not) • Financial – financial expenditure incurred in providing an intervention. = the approach used in OneHealth

Cost Types Cost Variable

Fixed

Semivariable Volume of Care

How Do Costs Vary As the Amount of Care Varies? • Fixed – does not vary: e.g. the cost of building a clinic. • Variable – More care, more cost: e.g. drugs, bandages, laundry, food in hospitals. • Semi-variable: Goes up in steps: e.g. staffing

Approach used in OneHealth • Recurrent vs. capital (variable vs. fixed) – Capital investments (e.g., vehicles): purchase cost is treated as a onetime cost incurred at the time of purchase, not annualised. – The operational costs for vehicles are entered for each year

• Joint vs. specific costs – Costs are linked to the activity and "budget holder", therefore HRH costs for service delivery linked to the HRH plan as the "budget holder"

• Current vs. constant prices – OneHealth now uses constant prices but an inflation factor may be built into future version

• Traded vs. non traded – OneHealth includes both. Outputs (results) can be distinguished for traded/non traded, to see implications for foreign exchange requirements.

Ingredients Approach

• Quantity x Prices

Estimating Costs for Service Packages Epidemiological data Demographic data Coverage rates

NO. OF CASES

Intervention components and quantities Unit costs of components • Drugs • Laboratory costs • Other supplies • Hospital bed and food

Total Patient care costs

COST PER CASE Health systems costs (infrastructure module, capital & recurrent cost)

Scope of costing the "programme" Specific resources

Clinical interventions • HIV/AIDS, TB, RMNCH, etc • User-defined • NCDs (forthcoming) Programme activities • Training, IEC, meetings, etc

Drugs Diagnostic tests Supplies + Time of health workers *Excludes HRH salary Per diem Transport Equipment Printing, etc.

Shared resources

Health System Resources: Human resources, Infrastructure Logistics, Health Financing HMIS, Governance..

Six health system modules

Type of outputs (results) produced 1. Health impact: what will be my U5MR in 2020? Do I expect to reach my MDG targets by 2015? 2. Health Systems investments and service outputs: – Required investments in the Supply Chain – Total & additional bed days and outpatient visits; requirements for hospitals, facilities and community services

3. Costs: Costs by year, by programme, by inputs, etc. 4. Financial projections, fiscal space and expected shortfall 5. Scenarios: how is cost and impact different for alternative scenarios of packages, targets and activities?

Cost -specific outputs Cost-specific • Incremental & Total Costs (by year) Presentation of costs by: - National Programme - Package of services (e.g., Nutrition) - Level of service delivery or cost centre (national/district/hospital/health centre/community level, etc)

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Type of activity Source of funds Traded/non-traded Capital/Recurrent

Introduction to Intervention costing

What is intervention costing in OneHealth? Outputs….

What is intervention costing in OneHealth? Outputs….

What is intervention costing in OneHealth? Inputs

What is intervention costing in OneHealth? Inputs

What is intervention costing in OneHealth? Inputs

Calculation of services Servicesa = Target population * %Coverage * %PopInNeed * %Deliverya “a” indexes a delivery channel

What is intervention costing in OneHealth? Inputs

What is intervention costing in OneHealth? Inputs – A,B…,D

Calculation of resource requirements DrugNeedsa=Servicesa * DrugsPerServicea PersonnelNeeds=Servicesa * MinutesPerServicea Visitsa=Servicesa * VisitsPerServicea BedDaysa=Servicesa * BedDaysPerServicea “a” indexes a delivery channel

Division of labor 9:00 AM: Population in Need and Service delivery channels 10:30 AM: Treatment inputs 1:00 PM: Coverage targets

Population in Need Numerator: who should get the service Denominator: among whom? Example: Oral Rehydration Solution Who should get the service? Children with

diarrhea Among whom? Children under the age of

five

Delivery channels Who is paying for it? Costed channels: Community, Outreach, Clinic and Hospital

Uncosted channels: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Private sector Other non-health

Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks (MBB): Bottleneck Identification & Analysis OneHealth Training Workshop Manila, November 2011

MBB, LiST and OneHealth • Some countries have already worked with MBB to develop a MCH plan • MBB is included in OneHealth • MBB is a problem solving tool to identify health system bottlenecks that prevent scaling up of key MCH interventions • MBB is based on the Tanahashi framework (Bulletin WHO, 1978) • Other countries have already worked with LiST to develop a MCH plan • LiST is also included in OneHealth • LiST is an epidemiological projection tool to identify “impact” of interventions • LiST is based on The Lancet series for child (2003), neonatal (2005), maternal survival (2006) and nutrition (2008) • OneHealth is a planning tool using a health systems perspective • OneHealth brings together various tools in a single interface format • OneHealth covers impact, bottlenecks and costing

Determinants of coverage Effective coverage- Quality Adequate coverage- Continuity Utilisation – 1st contact with services Accessibility – physical access to services Availability of Human Resources Availability of critical inputs to health system Target Population Adapted from Tanahashi, Bull WHO, 1978; 56 (2): 295-303

Coverage

Infrastructure Human resources Treatment inputs

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Example results 1 Bottleneck is too few access points for bednets & HR

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QUALITY Stock of LLINs in district Community LLIN distributors LLIN access point in each community Household possession of any bednet <5 child slept under any net <5 child slept under treated LLIN

Session 3 Programme Planning within MCH Setting intervention coverage targets (11)

Karin Stenberg, HSF, WHO HQ Robert Scherpbier, MCH team, WHO China 1| OneHealth training workshop, November 2011

U5MR trends in China 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 1990 2000 2010 Source: Knoll et al. Lancet, 2010 Upper bound U5MR Lower bound MDG 4 target

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Reaching MDG4 and 5 requires improvement of intervention coverage (and program efforts)

Determinants of Health Socioeconomic and demographic factors Environmental and behavioural risk factors Health status ("impact") Mortality Health system Inputs Outputs Outcomes ("coverage") Proportion of target population who received interventions Morbidity disability Growth Development Well-being

(programme efforts) Policies & politics Human resources Costs & financing Logistics/supplies Information to families Availability of services Access to services Quality of services

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Distribution of causes of under five mortality, China Other, 25% Asphyxia, 17%

Malnutrition

Prematurity/ LBW 15%

Injuries, 11% Malaria, 0% HIV, 0% Measles, 0%

Pneumonia,

Congenital 10% Sepsis, 2% Sources: WHO, WHS 2010 Black et al Lancet, 2008

Diarrhoea, 17% 4 | OneHealth training workshop, November 2011 3%

Asphyxia Detection & management of breach Malnutrition Labour surveillance (partograph) Preterm / low birth weight Breastfeeding counselling Skilled delivery practices & treatment of asympt. bacteriuria Complementary feeding DetectionResuscitation newborn Corticosteroids forof preterm labour Diarrhoea: counselling Asphyxia, 17% Congenital Syphylis screening & treatment Breastfeeding counselling Other, 25% Vitamin A supplementation cessation (Pre)Smoking ecclampsia prevention Complementary feeding Vitamin A counselling therapy Folic acid supplementation Skilled delivery practices Rotavirus vaccination Measles vaccination Syphilis screening & treatment Sepsis Hypothermia management Vitamin A supplementation Ready to Use Foods Antibiotics for premature rupture of Kangaroo mother care Low osmolarity oral rehydration therapy Pneumonia: membranes Zinc adjuvant therapy Breastfeeding counselling Syphilis screening & treatment Prematurity/ Antibiotics feeding for dysentery Complementary counselling Clean delivery practices Hib vaccination LBW 15% Malnutrition Hypothermia management Pneumococcus vaccination Kangaroo mother care Antibiotics Breastfeeding counselling Community based pneumonia management Injuries, 11% Tetanus toxoid immunization

Distribution of causes of under five mortality, China

Malaria, 0% HIV, 0% Measles, 0%

Pneumonia,

Congenital 10% Sepsis, 2% Sources: WHO, WHS 2010 Black et al. Lancet, 2008 Jones et al. Lancet, 2003

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Coverage of interventions is not equal and not focused on major causes of death or risk factors 90% 72% 96% 78% 99% 88%

14% 4%

12% 2%

Sources: Countdown, 2008 MoH Statistics, 2009 Prelim. data WHO/MoH, 2010 6| OneHealth training workshop, November 2011

Conclusions Countries are familiar with target setting, in particular to improve health status: – Reduce MMR & U5MR, reach MDG 5 & 4 – Reduce underweight prevalence, reach MDG 1 Mortality reduction, intervention coverage and program efforts are linked In order to reach MDG 1, 4 and 5 efficiently, coverage of interventions addressing major mortality causes needs to be scaled up (e.g. exclusive breastfeeding, case management) While mortality targets are usually included in national MCH plans, less emphasis is given to intervention coverage targets Session 3 (11) is about setting intervention coverage targets 7| OneHealth training workshop, November 2011

Identify the source of intervention coverage data DHS, MICS Service Delivery Statistics, HMIS Census Research studies Sentinel sites Expert Opinion Regional or global averages Research papers published for similar countries 8| OneHealth training workshop, November 2011

Accessibility (as a proxy) modified for care seeking behaviour

Enter coverage data in OneHealth

Right click to access the duplicate /interpolate functions

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Select the shape of the ScaleScale-up Curve 1. Linear 2. S-shaped

3. Exponential

4. Front-loaded

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Day 2 Session 3 Programme Planning within MCH

Agenda Item 10

Treatment inputs Training workshop on strategic planning and costing for maternal and child health using the United Nations OneHealth tool 7-10 November 2011 Manila, Philippines

What is intervention costing in OneHealth? Inputs….

Drugs and medical supplies Medical personnel (time) Outpatient visits and inpatient days

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What is intervention costing in OneHealth? Outputs….

Inputs are editable and can be adjusted to the national treatment guidelines

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Health programme modules MNCH Programme Specific requirements for drugs /commodities

MNCH Programme Number of inpatient days, health worker time, needed for hospital care, per service

Direct input (calculated)

Logistics Module Total volume of commodities -> Supply Chain Requirements -> Supply Chain Costs

HRH Staff requirements Staff Costs

Infrastructure Comparison with planned number of hospitals and available beds

Health system modules

The Treatment Inputs that you enter will later be seen combined for all programmes and compared with information in the health systems modules (Example 1. Logistics) Volume of commodities transported in Logistics system, % share by programme Non Communicable disease Nutrition Vaccination HIV/AIDS Malaria TB Child health

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Maternal/newborn and reproductive health

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100+ health partners in just one country KfW HMN PEPFAR GAVI PMI

EC GTZ BTC AECI KOICA

AusAid

International Health Partnership Global Fund to Fight ATM PMNCH Catalytic Initiative

JICA AFD

DFID

UNITAID

CDC

Stop TB RBM

USAID

MOH MoP SC RACHA KHANA

WB UNFPA

ADB WHO UNICEF UNAIDS

MoF MoEd

MoH RHAC

HNI

pharm SRC Doctors Nursing URC Oxfam

WFP

UNDP

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NHP preparation Strategic Plan

Medium Term 5 years

NHP preparation Strategic Plan

Medium Term 5 years

Annual Review

Annual Review

Annual Review

Annual Review

Final Evaluation

Partners

NGOs Government Plan Medium Term 5 years Strategic Plan

Political Programmes

Elections

CSO GHIs GHIs Partners Partners Bottom Up Participatory Approach NGOs

Medium Term 5 years Strategic Plan

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CSO

Country processes are different, …

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What is “a coherent and balanced health plan”? Scope of plan Coverage of programs Broad - whole of Narrow sub-set of health sector, e.g. health sector e.g. public, NGO, church, govt services only private services Health sector & beyond – e.g. plus Education

None

Partial

Full

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Health system building blocks and maternal and child health System building blocks Service Delivery Referral systems in place Packaging of MCH interv.

Access Coverage Scale up of proven effective MCH interventions

Goals/outcomes Improved health MMR & U5 mortality Improved nutrition

Multiple, dynamic interactionsPriorities in each 5| 6|

Health Workforce Midwifes available Health workers trained Information Vital registration

Responsiveness

Medical products, Technologies Essential medicines for MCH Health Financing Out of pocket payment Leadership / Governance Policies for MCH, ie pneumonia treatment at community level

Social & financial risk protection Quality Safety Improved efficiency

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A good (MNCAH) program strategic plan is a pre-requisite for sound inputs to a National plan…and a good national plan should reflect key (MNCAH) program issues The (MNCAH) program strategic planning cycle should be synchronized with the national health planning cycle The OneHealth supports both National health planning and (MNCAH) program strategic planning Global Learning Program for National Health Strategic Planning

What is the purpose of OneHealth? Challenges: Too many tools De-linked planning cycles Little consideration of health systems OneHealth Role: Enabling integrated planning Bringing partners together Linking programmes to HSS platform

"First plan… then costing" Costing as part of the Planning process! Budget should consider the country fiscal space

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Fiscal Space envelope HS4. Health Information HS5. Governance and Leadership HS6. Financing Policies

National

Disease Programmes Reproductive Health

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Service delivery planning

Hospital Child Health Nutrition Others Health Centre

Immunization

Malaria

WASH

NCD

HIV

TB

Outreach Community

HS1. Infrastructure and Equipment

HS2. Human Resources

HS3. Logistics

Responding to data challenge: Availability of Default data in the tool Baseline situation analysis: Epidemiology, Demography, current coverage, and some HSS. Intervention standards: drug and supply cost per average case (based on WHO treatment guidelines + international drug prices from UNICEF, MSH and IDA) + estimated personnel type & time required. Disease Programme activity standards: e.g., specific training courses; surveys; specific equipment, etc. Standardised activities for health system strengthening: Activities for Logistics, Governance, etc. 9|

Prices: from WHO-CHOICE database, WHO, MSH, UNICEF

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User Guidance

Help screens in the tool

Day 2 Session 4

Health Systems Planning within OneHealth Agenda Item 12

Human Resources for Health Training workshop on strategic planning and costing for maternal and child health using the United Nations OneHealth tool 7-10 November 2011 Manila, Philippines

http://www.capacityproject.org/framework/ Source: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241599016_eng.pdf

Policy options

Source: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241599016_eng.pdf

What does the OneHealth HRH module do? • Targeting and costing of staffing for short and long term needs • Examination of strategies for achieving targeted staffing needs • Costing of strategies for achieving targeted staffing needs • Examination of production of health workers • Costing the administration, planning and supervision of HRH

General considerations taken into account when developing HRH module in OneHealth • HRH planning is longer term, often a planning horizon of 20 years or more • Need to plan HRH for comprehensive range of health workers and health services, not just for the MDGs • HRH policy options include retention, recruitment, motivation, employment conditions. • The need to allow the user full contextualisation to the local setting, and at the same time keep some default data in the tool.

Ensuring that OneHealth can respond to country HRH planning needs: Draft findings from an ongoing review of national health plans (in progress) Inadequate geographic distribution Shortage Distribution among professional practice areas Availability Attrition Distribution among service levels Competition with private sector Availability of existing staff Shortage private sector Shortage public sector Motivation / underperformance Management Remuneration / working conditions HRH management / supportive supervision Unethical behaviors Occupational risks 0 5 10 15 20

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Note: there are 4 types of HR in OneHealth

1. HR for health service delivery – planned for in HRH module

3. HR for management and admin of health programmes – by programme planner Afternoon session 13.00-15.00

2. HR for management and admin – planned for in HRH module Morning session 08.30-10.00

4. HR for management and admin of health system (HS) modules – by HS planners Health system sessions 08.30-11.30

Human resources not in the HR module (ex 1) For example, in Infrastructure Programme Management Programme specific human resources

Human resources not in the HR module (ex 2) Similarly, in the child health programme module Programme Management Programme specific human resources

General schematic for HRH module

Health workforce production, hiring, training, retention.

Baseline data

Situation analysis

Target Setting

Policy Analysis Results Programme Management

Health workforce planning & management

Allowing the user contextualisation to local setting, and at the same time keeping default data…

This is why we have the "mapping" function in the OneHealth setup. You can enter your own staff categories (max. 50 types) but they need to be mapped to 12 standard staff types. Country specific Up to 50 staff types mapping

12 Standard staff types Linked to default assumptions about interventions; health worker time (Treatment Inputs)

Default staff types can be adjusted in OneHealth configuration setup, or in the HRH module

HRH module - Baseline data elements • • • • • • • • Salaries Benefits (amounts & % of staff receiving), Staffing levels Attrition rates by cause Attrition reduction strategy impact matrix Pre-service staff production & costs In-service training Staff time utilisation (to account for time spent on tasks other than direct service delivery)

Looking at time utilization: not all health workers work 8 hours/day

Target setting for each type of HRH can be done using 3 different methods • Population norms (the workforce-to-population ratio method) – Ex. One community health worker per 1000 population; – Ex. One psychologist per 100,000 population

• Facility norms (staffing standards) – Ex: 2 nurses per health centre

• Existing plans – Ex: A HRH strategy for projected quantities of HR has already been developed

• Expected service needs based on coverage scale-up – Only provided as a check in the model.

Link between programme MNCH-related Programme Planning & Health Systems implications: activities HSSWorker investments #1 - and Health time (1/2) SYSTEM PROGRAMME

"Check" (calculated)

MNCH Programme Minutes of staff time required for patient care Potential adjustment of coverage targets

HRH Staff requirements Staff Costs

HRH planner decides on HRH plan

MNCH Programme # of staff that need in-service training

Programme Planning & Health Systems implications:

#1 - Health Worker time: example a

Estimated time required for programme scale-up

Available health worker time

Programme Planning & Health Systems implications:

#1 - Health Worker time: example b

Estimated time required for programme scale-up

Available health worker time

Day 3 Session 4 Health Systems Planning within OneHealth

Infrastructure and Equipment Training workshop on strategic planning and costing for maternal and child health using the United Nations OneHealth tool 7-10 November 2011 Manila, Philippines

Note: 2 types of Infrastructure in OneHealth There is no specific space in the programme modules to plan for infrastructure that is specific to the programme For example VCT clinic, adolescent health clinic, maternity waiting home. You can plan and cost these in the infrastructure module Exception: Warehouses can be constructed in the Logistic module

1. Facilities delivering health interventions – planned for in infrastructure module 2. Facilities with support functions – planned for in infrastructure module Philosophy: there is a central facility planning unit in Ministry of Health.

Note: 2 types of Equipment in OneHealth

1. General equipment at facilities for health service delivery – planned for in infrastructure module In general we advise that Equipment is planned for in the Infrastructure module since it is most commonly a shared cost (shared between programmes)

2. Equipment specific to the health programme (planned and budgeted for by the programme)

This option should only be used when it is a programme-specific investment and it is not going to be planned and budgeted for by the general Facility Planning Unit in Ministry of Health

General outline of infrastructure module

Construction; Renovation; Upgrading of Facilities

Baseline data

Situation analysis

Target Setting Results Programme Management Infrastructure planning & management

Equipment; maintenance; operation costs of facilities

Allowing the user contextualisation of data to local setting, and at the same time keeping default data… This is why we have the "mapping" function in the OneHealth setup. You can enter your own facility types (max. 20 types) but they need to be mapped to 4 standard delivery levels (community, outreach, clinic, and hospital) + 1 category for Facility with Support function. 4 Standard delivery levels Country specific Up to 20 facilities mapping

Linked to default assumptions about interventions; drugs, commodities and health worker time (Treatment Inputs)

Infrastructure module - components • Facility Types and Existing quantity • Construction costs • Rehabilitation costs • Operating costs

Infrastructure module - components • Standard list of medical equipment per facility & cost • Standard lists of furniture & costs • Vehicle, capital & operating costs • ICT equipment costs

Target setting for constructing infrastructure (facilities) can be done using 2 methods • Population norms (the facility-to-population ratio method) – Ex. One health centre per 10,000 population;

• Existing plans – Ex: An infrastructure strategy with numbers of needed facilities has already been developed, based on situation analysis of population accessibility to health care.

• In future versions of OneHealth: with geographic mapping options (when data available)

Programme Planning & Health Systems implications:

#3 - Facility Infrastructure (Services) PROGRAMME SYSTEM

MNCH Programme Number of inpatient days needed for hospital care (in "Treatment Inputs" section)

Infrastructure Comparison with planned number of hospitals and available beds

Facility planner decides on final plan for infrastructure

Potential adjustment of coverage targets

Programme Planning & Health Systems implications: #3 - Facility Infrastructure (Services): example a Predicted number of outpatient visits, by programme area 70,000,000 60,000,000 HIV/AIDS 50,000,000 Malaria 40,000,000 30,000,000 20,000,000 10,000,000 Vaccination Child health Maternal/newborn and reproductive health

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Programme Planning & Health Systems implications: #3 - Facility Infrastructure (Services): example b Predicted number of needed hospital bed days, compared to estimated capacity 12,000,000 10,000,000 8,000,000 6,000,000 4,000,000 2,000,000 Estimated inpatient capacity Combined programme need

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Day 3 Session 5 Planning and Costing Programme Activities

Programme Activity Costing Training workshop on strategic planning and costing for maternal and child health using the United Nations OneHealth tool 7-10 November 2011 Manila, Philippines

MNCH planning - Selected tools 1. Managing programs to improve child health 2a. OneHealth LiST (impact simulation) 2b. OneHealth Programme Channel Analysis (costing) 1. Guidelines & training packages for community, first and referral level

1. Short program review

Plan

2. Follow-up after training

Assess

Implement 1.Health facility survey

Monitor

2. Service availability mapping 3. House hold survey (MNCH-HHS) 4. DHS, MICS 5. Routine monitoring (HMIS)

Costs: intervention & programme activities • Intervention costs for Child Health

• Programme activity costs for Child Health

What do we mean by Programme Activities?

What do we mean by Programme Activities? Programme costs: • Costs incurred at the administrative levels of the district, provincial or central-levels • Specific to the programme (ex. Child Health, or Malaria) Examples: • Administration, programme management • In-service training • Media campaigns • Monitoring the quality of care, ex. facility surveys

70%

Addressed by health system interventions

Example results 1 Bottleneck is too few access points for bednets & HR

60%

50%

Addressed by program activity intervention

40%

30%

20%

10%

A 2nd major bottleneck is quality: too few children sleep under treated net

0%

QUALITY Stock of LLINs in district Community LLIN distributors LLIN access point in each community Household possession of any bednet <5 child slept under any net <5 child slept under treated LLIN

Costs: intervention + programme activities = costing summary • Intervention costs for Child Health

• Programme activity costs for Child Health • Costing Summary

OneHealth 4 things to remember

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Global Learning Program for National Health Strategic Planning

Fiscal Space envelope HS4. Health Information HS5. Governance and Leadership HS6. Financing Policies

National

Disease Programmes Reproductive Health

Health System Envelope 2|

Global Learning Program for National Health Strategic Planning

Service delivery planning

Hospital Child Health Nutrition Others Health Centre

Immunization

Malaria

WASH

NCD

HIV

TB

Outreach Community

HS1. Infrastructure and Equipment

HS2. Human Resources

HS3. Logistics

OneHealth #1 Added value of OneHealth is best demonstrated in national level strategic planning. Subnational planning is possible with OneHealth (e.g. if completely decentralized with fiscal autonomy and the area is big enough for the hs building blocks to be important considerations) but there should be careful consideration as there may be simpler tools. 3| Global Learning Program for National Health Strategic Planning

OneHealth #2 OneHealth facilitates integrated planning. Health system building blocks strategic planning provides the overall frame within which the scale-up of health services can occur. Accountability and transparency.The experts/budget holders do their own planning. But they should know what is happening in the other modules. 4| Global Learning Program for National Health Strategic Planning

OneHealth #3 Strategic Planning and costing are iterative. They are not intended to be sequential (plan then cost) Use the scenarios and develop "what if" plans and cost Choose and prioritize.

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Global Learning Program for National Health Strategic Planning

OneHealth #4 One Health is for strategic planning and costing: It is not for operational annual budgeting.

The level of precision needed for costing is "ballpark". Identify the big cost drivers and then validate. Use defaults first. 6| Global Learning Program for National Health Strategic Planning

Budget mapping in OneHealth Tool

Costs calculated by OneHealth Human resources Infrastructure Logistics HIS Governance Health financing Drugs MNRH Child Health Vaccination Malaria Etc. Etc. Etc.

Costs calculated by OneHealth

On the other hand….. Everyone has their own budget framework Department/Ministry of Health Global Fund MTEF Etc.

How do they match? OneHealth solution:

Budget mapping tool

Budget mapping tool May have as many as seven simultaneous budget frameworks, potential: Budget for the Ministry/Department Budget for funders Budget disaggregated by funders Internal analysis

All will sum to the same grand total

Budget mapping tool Three step process: Name your budget Define categories in budget Match the budget categories to OneHealth costing categories

User friendliness features: Upload Excel based framework “Canned” budgets

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Financial sustainability assessment: Overview Chris D James

World Health Report 2010: 3 fundamental health financing challenges

1.

2.

3.

Raising sufficient funds for health Removing financial risks and barriers to access Improving efficiency and equity of resource use

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Financial sustainability assessment: overview

Raising sufficient funds •Fiscal Space: “capacity of govt to provide additional budgetary resources for a desired purpose [e.g. health] without any prejudice to sustainability of its financial position” Heller, IMF < Can we feasibly increase government spending on health? >

•Financial space: overall availability of resources for health (i.e. including private health expenditures)

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Financial sustainability assessment: overview

Comparison of: •Costed plans (planned expenditures)

with •Financial space available for health (multiple scenarios)

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Financial sustainability assessment: overview

How to raise sufficient funds? 1.

Mobilise additional domestic revenues Importance of GDP growth Increase revenue / GDP ratio (including new or more diversified revenue sources, such as ‘sin’ taxes)

Allocate greater share of govt resources to health 3. Borrowing (seignorage) 4. External aid (more, and more predictable) 2.

Note: macroeconomic stability / fiscal sustainability constraints (fiscal deficit, inflation, …) 5| Financial sustainability assessment: overview

Some definitions / acronyms GGHE = General government health expenditure: Total outlays by government entities to purchase health services – can include SHI + other ministries as well as MOH.

GGE = General government expenditure GGHE / GGE therefore is share of general govt expenditure (GGE) devoted to health (GGHE)

Private health expenditure: Total outlays on health by private entities. > In Asia, often out-of-pocket payments from households. > Can also be private insurance, NGOs. 6| Financial sustainability assessment: overview

Some Fiscal Space Indicators Indicator Fiscal space Benchmark rationale

GDP per capita growth rate

≥ 2.25% < 0.75%

≥ 1½ times global average < half global average < IMF report 'minimum' tax ratio ≥ High-income country average < half Abuja declaration Achieved Abuja declaration

Govt revenue as < 15% % of GDP ≥ 26% GGHE as % of total govt exp < 7.5% ≥ 15%

+ Macroeconomic constraints: Fiscal deficit ≥ 1.5%; Inflation ≥ 10%; Debt service ratio ≥ 25%

GOVERNMENT PRIORITY TO HEALTH (general government health expenditure as % of total government expenditure) FSM Nauru New Zealand Australia Japan Palau Marshall Islands Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu Nieu Republic of Korea Cooks Island Fiji China Vietnam Cambodia Kiribati Tuvalu Mongolia Philippines Papau New Guinea Malaysia Brunei Singapore Lao PDR 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% 10% 11% 12% 13% 14% 15% 16% 17% 18% 19% 20%

ASIA: low and middle income Cambodia China Indonesia Laos Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Philippines Thailand Viet Nam

Economic growth Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia, Fed States Nauru Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Timor-Leste Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

X X X X X X X X X X Revenue to GDP ratio

Substantial (some) Minimal

X Fiscal deficit >1.5% Priority to health

THE PACIFIC X X

•Indicators suggest most low- & middleincome Asian countries have moderate to substantial fiscal space for health •In contrast, most Pacific Islands have much more limited fiscal space available.

X Substantial

X (some) Minimal

X X Fiscal deficit >1.5% Economic growth Revenue to GDP ratio Priority to health

Financial sustainability / fiscal space [FS] analysis in OneHealth

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Financial sustainability assessment: overview

Financial sustainability / fiscal space [FS] analysis in OneHealth MacroHealth tool & OneHealth Main users: MOF + Dept of Planning (or related) in MoH

OneHealth produces various results: Financial indicators (GDP, Govt revenues…) Financial space for health Financial space by source & distribution of expenditures (Govt, Private, External, …)

Planned expenditures V Financial space 11 | Financial sustainability assessment: overview

General schematic for HRH module

Baseline data

Financial space assumptions (for up to 3 scenarios)

Expenditure distribution assumptions

Results

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Financial sustainability assessment: overview

Opening screen in financial space component

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Financial sustainability assessment: overview

Setting intervention priorities for maternal and child health

Scale up: •Rota virus and pneumococcal vaccines 0-90 %

Scale up: • excl. breast feeding 25-90 % •ORS + zinc 55-90 % •Pneumonia treatment 45-80% •Full neonatal support 25-80 %

Scale up: •Rota virus and pneumococcal vaccines 090 % • excl. breast feeding 25-90 % •ORS + zinc 55-90 % •Pneumonia treatment 45-80% •Full neonatal support 25-80 %

MDG 5 goal for MMR

Scale up: •Facility delivery and SBA : 19-90% •BEmOC 0-90%

MDG 5 goal for MMR

Scale up: •Facility delivery and SBA : 19-90% •CEmOC 1.9-90%

Conclusions • Priority setting should be based on epidemiological data incl. cause specific mortality profiles • Scale up of few selected interventions have major impact on mortality – some more than others • Other criteria for priority setting include cost, feasibility, acceptability, equity…..

Public Health Financing: The Budget Cycle Step 2 Step 1

ANALYZE Health System Performance in relation to priority goals/targets.

PRIORITIZE Various Requirements & Options Step 3

Estimate Impact & assess the COSTS of priority Options Step 6

EXPEND in line with Budget Allocations Step 5

Step 4

BUDGET & PLAN in line with Plan & available Fiscal Space

RE-PRIORITIZE & PLAN In line with preferred Options & Fiscal Space

Do the identified Priorities in health drive Financing, or does Financing drive priorities?

Outcome targets set

Population in Need Incidence/prevalence Need/severity Care-seeking

In order to achieve the desired outcomes, who (with what needs) should get what services at what time, where and at what cost? Delivery points Type of provider Scale-up trajectory •Public •NGO •Private •Self care •Traditional

Select interventions Treatment inputs Program activities Prices

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Using OneHealth to inform planning: process Situation Analysis Select interventions and activities (priorities) Assessment of - Costs - Impact -Financial sustainability Set priorities, make adjustments as needed -Health system capacity

Work with Scenarios

Overview of the tool components Configuration Health Coverage Programmes Intervention Costs Programme costing Impact Results Total Costs Financial Space System Modules

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Fiscal Space envelope HS4. Health Information HS5. Governance and Leadership HS6. Financing Policies

National

Disease Programmes Reproductive Health

Health System Envelope

Service delivery planning

Hospital Child Health Nutrition Others Health Centre

Immunization

Malaria

WASH

NCD

HIV

TB

Outreach Community

HS1. Infrastructure and Equipment

HS2. Human Resources

HS3. Logistics

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Communication of Results in OneHealth

Budgets Vision for how money will be spent Concrete mechanism for talking about what is possible

What is the money paying for? Improved demographic profile: more productive population

What is the money paying for? Reduced AIDS mortality

What is the money paying for? Reduced TB mortality

What is the money paying for? Improved reproductive health

How will these impacts be achieved? Expanded coverage of essential services

How will coverage be expanded? Better implementation of programmes

How will coverage be expanded? Improved workforce

How will coverage be expanded? Improved access to essential medicines

How will coverage be expanded? Expanded access to high quality facilities

How will coverage be expanded? Removal of financial barriers to access

How will coverage be expanded? Improved information for decision making

How will coverage be expanded? Improved accountability

How are results reported in OneHealth? Each module has a results ribbon item Summary Outputs results brings everything together

Scenario Generation in OneHealth

Choices – a matter of focus What interventions or packages of interventions? What service delivery channel(s)? What cadres of workers will be emphasized? How to assure efficient availability of medicines? Etc., etc., etc.

Bottom line on your plan Bottom line 1: How much does morbidity and mortality decline? Bottom line 2: Does the sum of the estimated costs fall within a plausible projection of financial space? Bottom line 3: Is the scale up of intervention coverages consistent with the scale up of systems and programme activities?

Where can OneHealth help? Bottom line 1: How much does morbidity and mortality decline?

OneHealth calculates reductions in mortality using vetted and approved mortality calculators

Where can OneHealth help? Bottom line 2: Does the sum of the estimated costs fall within a plausible projection of financial space?

OneHealth calculates the full cost of implementing a health plan OneHealth calculates the financial space available to implement the plan

Not so simple Financial space is not known to a high level of precision Different paths exist to reach a similar goal Sometimes the goal is not sufficiently defined

How can OneHealth help? Scenario Generation Working from a base scenario, an infinite number of scenarios can be created As many as ten scenarios can be loaded for easy comparison Internal documentation of scenarios allows comparative checks on assumptions

Three scenarios Lao base scenario Lao 70% scenario Lao 90% scenario Scale of all MCH, Nutrition and WASH interventions

10 Minutes later

Summary Cost of Plan Lao Base Lao 70% Lao 90% 341 million 407 million 455 million U5MR 51 45 42 Fiscal space (pessimistic) 272 million 272 million 272 million Fiscal space (moderate) 479 million 479 million 479 million

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