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1) The budget projects total expenditure of Rs. 14,90,925 crore for 2012-13, with a fiscal deficit target of 5.1% of GDP.
2) The health sector allocation has been increased by 14% to Rs. 30,702 crore, though there are concerns this does not adequately address issues.
3) The education sector allocation has been increased by 24% to Rs. 52,057 crore to support programs like the Right to Education Act and secondary education initiatives.
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- The Better Care Fund is being implemented for 2016/17 to further integrate health and social care.
- Capitation payments may be implemented in 2017 to support new care models.
- Emerging digital technologies may transform health and care delivery.
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Resource Gap for Tuberculosis Programme in Bangladesh, 2017-2022HFG Project
The resource gap analysis found that while Bangladesh allocates resources to its tuberculosis (TB) program, there remains a funding gap that threatens its ability to achieve TB reduction targets. Between 2017-2022, the TB program was allocated a total of $274 million from both domestic and donor sources. However, the estimated total cost of providing adequate TB services over that period is $370 million, leaving a funding gap of $96 million. Without additional resources, Bangladesh will struggle to meet its goals of reducing TB deaths and cases in accordance with its national strategic plan and global targets.
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The document discusses the key points of the Indian budget for 2012-13, including:
1) The budget projects total expenditure of Rs. 14,90,925 crore for 2012-13, with a fiscal deficit target of 5.1% of GDP.
2) The health sector allocation has been increased by 14% to Rs. 30,702 crore, though there are concerns this does not adequately address issues.
3) The education sector allocation has been increased by 24% to Rs. 52,057 crore to support programs like the Right to Education Act and secondary education initiatives.
The document provides a commercial update for May 2016, including:
- STPs will require local health systems to collaborate on 5-year plans to improve quality, finances, and population health.
- Vanguards are sharing learning through podcasts on integrated care models.
- The Better Care Fund is being implemented for 2016/17 to further integrate health and social care.
- Capitation payments may be implemented in 2017 to support new care models.
- Emerging digital technologies may transform health and care delivery.
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The amended recovery plan for the Harrisburg School District proposes revisions to address financial concerns and incorporate new academic benchmarks based on school performance profiles. Key elements include restoring the 2013 salary cut, improving financial projections through 2021 with initiatives like tax increases and reducing charter school growth, and setting school-level performance targets to increase scores by 3-17 points by 2018. The plan also clarifies the chief financial officer role and provides a process to share savings if academic and financial goals are exceeded.
The USAID Health Finance and Governance project in Angola helped the Ministry of Health develop a costed National Health Plan and monitoring and evaluation system to better advocate for health funding. Specifically:
1) HFG assisted MINSA in calculating a 12-year $6.3 billion budget to implement the National Health Plan, which helped gain approval and political support for increased health funding.
2) An M&E plan was developed and led to the creation of an M&E department at MINSA to track health spending and sector progress.
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3) Strategic purchasing, which involves defining benefits and payments to providers, can improve efficiency and quality while maintaining coverage. However, purchasing functions in Indonesia remain split between agencies limiting its effectiveness.
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The USAID Health Finance and Governance project works with developing countries to improve access to healthcare. Led by Abt Associates, the project helps countries increase domestic health funding, better manage resources, and make wise purchasing decisions. The project has activities in over 40 countries and collaborates with health stakeholders to expand services like maternal and child care, reduce financial barriers, and promote universal healthcare coverage.
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The document analyzes India's Union Budget for 2004-2005 from the perspective of budget allocations that benefit children. It finds that only 2.44% of the total budget was allocated for children, which may not be sufficient to meet the needs of children who make up 40% of India's population. The largest allocation was for the Integrated Child Development Services program, though the 8.2% decline from the previous year could impact universalization goals. Overall, the analysis raises concerns that budget allocations for children may not be adequate to fulfill India's commitments to children's rights.
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Namibia 2012-13 Health Accounts: Statistical ReportHFG Project
Resource Type: Brochure
Authors: Ministry of Health and Social Services, Republic of Namibia
Published: June 30, 2015
Resource Description:This Namibia 2012/13 HA was conducted between July 2014 and March 2015. Following the launch workshop in September 2014, the HA team, with representation from the Government of Namibia, the HFG Project, and the World Health Organization (WHO), began primary and secondary data collection. Collected data were then compiled, cleaned, triangulated, and reviewed. Data was imported into the HA Production Tool and mapped to each of the SHA 2011 classifications. The results of the analysis were verified with Ministry of Health and Social Services management at a validation meeting on March 10th, 2015.
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Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of the Essential Service Package in Bangladesh, 2017-2022
1. Bangladesh Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of ESP
Resource Gap for Public Sector
Provision of the Essential Service
Package in Bangladesh, 2017-2022
1. Introduction
The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) is working
towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC)
by 2030 as part of attaining Target 3.8 of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).1, 2, 3 The
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW)
developed the first Essential Service Package (ESP)
for Bangladesh in 1998,4 and has updated it over the
years to adjust for changing disease burden trends
and population needs. In 2016, MOHFW updated
the ESP significantly in preparation for the 4th Health,
Population, and Nutrition Sector Programme 2017-
2022 (4th HPNSP),5, 6 which includes UHC as a key
focus. The MOHFW aimed to design a well-defined,
cost-effective, and implementable ESP to ensure
equitable access to quality health, nutrition, and
population services.7 The updated 2016 ESP is a
critical step towards the GOB’s commitment to
universal access to the most essential health
services. The ESP consists of five core services, as
well as management of common conditions,
integrated behavior change communication (BCC),
and three support services (see Box 1). Within the
ESP, there are 232 service interventions with
relevant delivery channels for each (from a list of ten
channels, covering the community through to
district hospitals). The 4th HPNSP includes plans and
targets for ESP implementation, as part of its
operational plans (OPs) in the Programme
Implementation Plan (PIP).
Since 2016, USAID’s Health Finance and
Governance (HFG) project, in partnership with the
World Health Organization (WHO) and the
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease
Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), have been
supporting the MOHFW’s Planning Wing and Health
Economics Unit (HEU) to estimate the cost of
providing the ESP through the public sector as per
the plans and targets of the 4th HPNSP. Using
findings from the costing study (henceforth
MOHFW’s 2018 ESP costing report),8 HFG
conducted a further analysis to determine the
resource gap for public sector provision of the ESP
in Bangladesh using the PIP and OPs of the 4th
HPNSP as the basis.
This analysis continues HFG’s support to the
MOHFW and GOB towards evidence-based
planning and strengthening Bangladesh’s health
system for UHC. HFG also conducted a similar
resource gap analysis for tuberculosis (TB)
Box 1. Bangladesh ESP updated in 2016
Five core services
Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent
Health (MNCAH)
Family Planning (FP)
Nutrition
Communicable Diseases
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
Management of other common conditions
Support services:
Laboratory
Radiology
Pharmacy
Integrated BCC
Provided through ten delivery channels
2. 2 Bangladesh Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of ESP
and expanded programme on immunization (EPI) in
Bangladesh.9, 10 Please see the full report for
complete details on methods, limitations, and results
for resource gap analysis for ESP, TB, and EPI in
Bangladesh.11
This brief provides an overview of the resource
gap analysis for the ESP, including data
estimates for GOB and donors, and presents the
calculated resource gap for public sector
provision of the ESP for the period 2017-2022.
2. Objectives
The analysis had the following objectives
To generate resource gap estimates by
consolidating data on resources available and
estimated costs for the ESP service provision
per the 4th HPNSP.
To support the GOB in understanding
additional resource requirements and facilitate
improved budget planning by showing the
funding flows and allocation across funding
sources and priority areas for the ESP
provision.
To assist the GOB to strategically and
holistically improve domestic resource
mobilization for the ESP, and to plan for
eventual transition from donor financing.
HFG designed this analysis to answer the following
questions:
a) What resources are available over 2017-
2022 to fund the ESP?
b) What, if any, is the resource gap for the ESP
service provision over 2017-2022?
3. Methodology
HFG followed a rigorous methodology, using an
approach from similar resource modeling exercises
for HIV, TB, malaria, and nutrition programmes in
countries undergoing donor transitions.12, 13, 14 This
analysis applied a simple analytic framework to
estimate the future resource gap (if any) for the ESP
in Bangladesh. The framework includes funding flows
for the health sector in Bangladesh and a core
formula for resource gap analysis, as shown in Figure
1.
Components of the framework are explained below.
(A) The allocated resources for ESP. This includes
two components:
(A.R) Revenue budget is the fixed budget
allocation by GOB. It is allocated primarily
for human resources (HR) as salaries,
allowances, and other benefits (which
constitute about 90% of the revenue budget).
In addition, a small portion is allocated for
repairs, maintenance, supplies, and services
for health facilities.
(A1) GOB contribution to MOHFW
for the ESP includes funding allocated by
GOB through the revenue budget.
Figure 1: Analytic Framework for Resource Gap Analysis
(A2)
Donor
Contribution
(A1)
GoB
Contribution
(C)
RESOURCE
GAP for
ESP
(B)
Cost of ESP
Service
Provision
(A)
Allocated Resources for
ESP
(A.R)
Revenue
Budget
(A.D)
Development
Budget
3. Bangladesh Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of ESP 3
(A.D) Development budget is the more
flexible budget compared to the revenue budget.
This is channeled through the sector programme,
the 4th HPNSP; it covers the programmatic
aspects of the health system, such as training,
research and development, drugs and supplies,
supportive equipment, and monitoring and
evaluation.
(A1) GOB contribution to MOHFW for
the ESP, also includes funding allocated by
GOB through development budget.
(A2) Donor contribution includes external
resources from development partners
allocated as part of the development budget.
(B) Cost of ESP Service Provision was obtained
from the MOHFW’s 2018 ESP costing report
which estimated the cost of ESP services in the
public sector in Bangladesh.15
This study used
the OneHealth Tool (OHT) to estimate the
costs of each ESP core services, as well as the
cost of ESP interventions16
and the required
health system costs to implement these services.
(C) Resource gap for ESP is calculated as the
difference between the allocated resources from
the GOB and from donors for the ESP (A), and
the estimated cost of delivering ESP services
(B). This gap represents the amount of
resources the GOB will need to mobilize for
provision of the ESP, as per the PIP of the 4th
HPNSP.
4. Data Sources and Analysis
For this analysis, data was compiled from multiple
sources, as shown in Figure 2.
Information on allocated resources (A) was
extracted from revenue and development budgets:
Revenue budget (A.R) data was compiled
from Bangladesh’s annual budget books 2017-18
for the health services division (HSD) and health
education and family planning division
(HE&FPD).17, 18
The revised budget for FY2016-
17 and the intended budget for FY2017-18 were
extracted from these documents. We extracted
budget amounts for ten different types of health
facilities, and for each type of health facility, the
budget was provided in six different categories:
officer salaries, employee salaries, allowances,
supplies and services, repairs and maintenance,
and assets collection and procurement. Revenue
budget totals for FY2018-2019 to FY 2021-2022
were projected using linear best fit for actual
expenditure data, including fiscal years from
2013-2016. For this analysis, we apportioned the
budget for ESP based of assumptions made for
health systems contribution to ESP at various
tiers.
Development budget (A.D) data in the PIP
and OPs of the 4th HPNSP provided the
breakdown of funding from the GOB and
“Project Aid (PA)”, which is a sum of
reimbursable project aid (RPA) and direct
project aid (DPA). RPA covers loans while
DPA is grant money to GOB. HFG reviewed
and extracted data for 394 budget line items
that matched with the 232 ESP interventions
from the 12 identified OPs that include ESP
service provision.19
Each OP includes a total
financial target for the respective programme
(GOB and PA combined) for each of the fiscal
Figure 2: Data Sources
2. PIP and OPs of the 4th
HPNSP
(A.R.) Revenue Budget
(A1) GOB Contribution
(A.D.) Development Budget
(A1) GOB Contribution
(B) Cost of ESP Service Provision
3. MOHFW’s 2018 ESP
Costing Report
1. GOB’s Annual budget
books
Data Sources Contributing Section of Framework
(A.D.) Development Budget
(A2) Donor Contribution
4. 4 Bangladesh Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of ESP
years FY2017-2022, and also provides a
breakdown of GOB vs. PA for the grand total
for January 2017 to June 2022. HFG extracted
this data and estimated the yearly breakdown
for GOB and PA using the same ratio for the
grand total of each OP over 2017-2022.
Apportioned budget for ESP: HFG apportioned
the revenue and development budget amounts for
ESP based on programme statistics and expert
opinion.
Revenue budget (A.R): salaries and benefits
were apportioned based on assumptions of HR
contribution (by each cadre) for ESP services;
the same proportions were used to allocate the
contribution of the remaining revenue budget
(non-HR items) to the ESP.
Development budget (A.D) amounts only
for ESP services were extracted from twelve
OPs. The budget from the Community Based
Health Care (CBHC) OP, as this is for all types
of ESP services, was divided into six equal
amounts for each of the six service areas (five
core services and management of other
common conditions).
Cost of ESP: Data on the cost of ESP Service
Provision (B) was compiled from the 2018 ESP
costing report. The cost estimates include both the
total cost of public sector provision of ESP in
Bangladesh and the cost for each ESP programme
area. Using an ingredients-based methodology, the
study team costed 132 of the 232 ESP interventions
in six health programme areas (MNCAH, FP,
nutrition, communicable diseases, NCDs, and
management of other common conditions). The data
was obtained from a mixture of 2016 current
practices, standard protocols (if available), and
expert opinion when no other data was available.
Costs were based on the target population, the
population in need, and the service coverage of each
ESP intervention. Service coverage for 2016 was
obtained from document review and coverage for
the period 2017 to 2022 was obtained from the PIP
and OPs of the 4th HPNSP.
HFG converted the ESP cost estimates from
calendar year to fiscal year by combining half of
each consecutive calendar year. This is because the
allocated resource data (revenue and development
budgets) follow Bangladesh’s fiscal year (July through
June).
In order to undertake the analysis:
Annual linear progress was assumed in achieving
coverage targets from 2017 to 2022; and
The revenue budget for EPI was apportioned
based on a number of assumptions and expert
opinion.
The full report20 contains details of assumptions
made for each of the compiled data sets.
5. Findings
A. Allocated Resources for ESP
The total allocated resources (A) for ESP in FY2017-
18 is approximately BDT 7,200 Crore (USD 902
Million); this increases to approximately BDT 8,000
Crore (USD 997 Million) by FY2021-22. As per the
4th HPNSP, the development budget for ESP reduces
over the years, whereas the revenue budget
increases steadily during this period (see Table 1).
Table 1: Total Resources Allocated for ESP
YEAR (A.R) Revenue budget (A.D) Development
budget
(A) Total Allocated
Resources
(Crore
BDT)
(Million
USD)*
(Crore
BDT)
(Million
USD)*
(Crore
BDT)
(Million
USD)*
2017-18 3,260 405 4,005 497 7,265 902
2018-19 3,580 444 4,015 498 7,595 943
2019-20 3,938 489 3,825 475 7,763 964
2020-21 4,341 539 3,762 467 8,103 1,006
2021-22 4,753 590 3,277 407 8,030 997
Total 19,872 2,466 18,884 2,344 38,756 4,810
* Exchange rate used in 2017-2022: USD 1 = BDT 80.57
5. Bangladesh Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of ESP 5
The total GOB contribution (A1) for ESP over the
period 2017-2022 is approximately BDT 26,000
Crore (USD 3,277 Million), which accounts for
more than two thirds of the total allocation for the
ESP programme (see Figure 3). The total donor
contribution (A2) for ESP for 2017-2022 is
approximately BDT 12,000 Crore (USD 1,533
Million), which accounts for approximately one third
of the total resources allocated (see Figure 3).
Figure 3: Apportioned Budget for ESP
Figure 4: Distribution of Development Budget for
ESP 2017-2022 by Core Service Areas
Figure 4 shows the percentage
distribution of the development
budget (total for 2017-2022) across
the six core service areas of ESP. It
was not possible to analyze the
distribution of the revenue budget, as
data was not available by service
areas.
The total allocated resources for the
ESP in 2017-18 (approximately BDT
7,200 Crore or USD 902 Million) is
about one-third of the total budget
for MOHFW for the same year (total
MOHFW budget for 2017-18 is BDT
20,652 Crore or USD 2,563 Million).
B. Cost of ESP Service Provision
Table 2 shows the total cost of ESP service
provision by fiscal year, 2017-2022. This was used
for this resource gap analysis, and does not include
the January-June 2017 ESP cost data. HFG
calculation is based on MOHFW’s 2018 ESP costing
report where the estimated cost of ESP service
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22
MillionsUSD
Planned and Projected Revenue and Development Budget
(Apportioned for ESP) in USD
(A1) GoB contr. (A.R) Revenue Bud (A1) GoB contr. (A.D) Dev Bud
(A2) Donor contr. (A.D) Dev Bud (RPA) (A2) Donor contr. (A.D) Dev Bud (DPA)
15.8%
20.0%
44.2%
8.9%
6.2%
4.9%
Communicable
diseases
Family Planning
MNCAH Care
NCD
Nutrition
Other conditions
6. 6 Bangladesh Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of ESP
provision to achieve targets of the 4th HPNSP for
2017 is approximately BDT 8,000 Crore (USD 1,043
Million). It is expected to increase to more than
BDT 10,000 Crore (USD 1,281 Million) by 2022 to
achieve implementation plan and service coverage of
the 4th HPNSP (Table 3).
Table 2: Total Cost of ESP Service Provision by Fiscal Year, 2017-2022, including health systems
costs, not including inflation
Items 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 Total
(B) Cost of ESP (Crore BDT) 8,492 8,767 9,178 9,623 10,082 46,141
(B) Cost of ESP (Million USD*) 1,054 1,088 1,139 1,194 1,251 5,727
*Exchange rate used in 2017-2022: USD 1 = BDT 80.57
Table 3: Total Cost of ESP* Service Provision by Calendar Year, 2016-2022, including health
systems costs, not including inflation
Items 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Total
Total cost of ESP (Crore BDT) 7,620 8,405 8,579 8,955 9,401 9,844 10,319 63,123
Total cost of ESP (Million USD*) 973 1,043 1,065 1,111 1,167 1,222 1,281 7,862
*Exchange rate used in 2016: USD 1 = BDT 78.3; 2017-2022: USD 1 = BDT 80.57
Figure 5: ESP Cost Composition, 2017-2022
MNCAH and NCD
programmes account for the
two largest portions of costs
for ESP service provision from
2017-2022; MNCAH services
account for more than half of
the total cost, and NCD
accounts for about one-fourth
of the total cost. FP and
nutrition are more minor
components; each constitutes
less than 5% of the total cost of
the ESP (see Figure 5).
C. Resource Gap for ESP in Bangladesh
The estimated cost of ESP service provision is higher
than the resources currently allocated, which means
there is a gap in the resources needed to achieve
the 4th HPNSP targets by 2022. As shown in Table 4,
the resource gap is approximately BDT 1,200 Crore
(USD 152 Million) for 2017-18, and increases to
approximately BDT 2,000 Crore (USD 255 Million)
for 2021-22. This only represents the gap for
Bangladesh to achieve the planned ESP service
coverage targets indicated in the PIP and OPs by
2022.
The resource gap varies year-to-year and mostly
contributed to the allocation of development budget
by years. Both revenue budget and cost of ESP
increases in linear fashion over these years,
51.8%
4.7%
4.4%
14.5%
23.7%
1.0%
MNCAH Care
Family Planning
Nutrition
Communicable
diseases
NCD
Other conditions
7. Bangladesh Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of ESP 7
Table 4: Resources, Cost, and Resource Gap for ESP Provision, FY2017-22
Year (A) Total Allocated
Resources for ESP
(B) Cost of ESP
Service Provision
(C) Resource Gap for
ESP
Gap as %
of Cost
(Crore
BDT)
(Million
USD*)
(Crore
BDT)
(Million
USD*)
(Crore
BDT)
(Million
USD*)
2017-18 7,265 902 8,492 1,054 (1,227) (152) 14%
2018-19 7,595 943 8,767 1,088 (1,172) (145) 13%
2019-20 7,763 964 9,178 1,139 (1,415) (176) 15%
2020-21 8,103 1,006 9,623 1,194 (1,519) (189) 16%
2021-22 8,030 997 10,082 1,251 (2,052) (255) 20%
Total 38,756 4,810 46,141 5,727 (7,385) (917) 16%
*Exchange rate used in 2017-2022: USD 1 = BDT 80.57
however, allocation of development budget is based
on planned activities of the 4th HPNSP per year
which decreased year-to-year (shown in Table 1). As
shown in Figure 6, the total resource gap over fiscal
years 2017-2022 for ESP in Bangladesh is projected
to be BDT 7,385 Crore (USD 917 Million), which is
about 19% of the total allocated resources for ESP
over this period.
Figure 6: Estimated Resource Gap for ESP for FY2017-2022
6. Way Forward
HFG estimated resource gap for public sector ESP
provision to be USD 917 Million (BDT 7,385 Crore)
for the period FY2017-2022. This is based on the
plans and coverage targets as presented in the PIP of
the 4th HPNSP. The following are suggested next
steps:
Validate the findings of this study: Present and
discuss the results in a clear and practical way to
wider groups of GOB officials to validate and
triangulate the estimates, and if required,
estimates could be adjusted based on input.
8. 8 Bangladesh Resource Gap for Public Sector Provision of ESP
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Mobilize resources: Use these findings to
advocate for mobilizing additional resources,
both domestically and from external sources, if
the 4th HPNSP targets are to be achieved. The
upcoming mid-term review in 2019 provides an
opportunity to advocate for increased
allocations.
Maximize efficiency: Improve financial
management and budget execution, as well as
identify ways to spend current resources more
efficiently (where possible) to improve fiscal
space.
The resource gap estimated here could be an
underestimate as the cost of ESP calculation used for
this analysis with health system cost did not include
inflation. Moreover, this estimated resource gap is
only for public sector provision of ESP. Future
research could consider the ESP services delivered
from both private and NGO sectors.
Among the ESP service areas and their sub-
components, some programmes are expected to
have resource gaps while others will have a surplus
(e.g., family planning (FP) and management of other
common conditions). The overall ESP is expected to
have a net resource gap.
In the context of 4th HPNSP and overall budget for
health sector, the resource gap for ESP (USD 917
Million) is relatively moderate, and additional
advocacy initiatives would reduce this resource gap
for ESP and enable Bangladesh to achieve UHC.
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