region Sub-Saharan Africa
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Research
November 2019
Transparency and Accountability in Kenya’s Health Financing Models
Transparency and accountability on processes in the health sector in Kenya has been waning. In 2017, for instance, the health sector witnessed major challenges ranging from internal turmoil caused by health practitioners over corruption to poor service delivery leading to wastage of public funds. The U.S. Embassy in Kenya announced the suspension of approximately $21…
November 2019
Corruption and its Socio-Economic Impacts on the Healthcare Sector (Tsaboy Ny Gasy Project)
The Tsaboy ny Gasy Project advocates for citizens' social and economic rights mainly by fighting corruption in the health sector in Madagascar. To inform the project, TI-Madagascar conducted an assessment to identify how different types of corruption impacted different types of health services. This involved a study of the legislative environment; a literature review on…

Projects
November 2021
Enhancing Equitable Access of COVID-19 Vaccines
The delivery of COVID-19 vaccines is conducted in an equitable and transparent manner, ensuring that the right people are vaccinated, and there is no corruption in the delivery of the vaccine.
July 2020
Advocacy for budget for health sector
In order to efficiently combat Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), ANCE-Togo advocated for an increase of the health sector budget in Togo between July and September 2014.
ANCE-TOGO's continuous efforts incentivised the Togo government to increase the health sector budget for 2015.
Our teams also started a campaign that actively targeted the minister’s council and the national assembly to increase the health sector budget for 2018. As part of this campaign, parts of the ANCE-TOGO team met with several ministers, including the minister of health, the minister of economy and finance, and several permanent secretaries. They also met with several Members of Parliaments (MPs).
July 2020
Supporting the implementation of drug control policies
The main objective of this project is to promote public health through the prevention and fight against illegal drugs, alcohol abuse and tobacco consumption in communities. It aims to create community-based anti-drugs coalitions to inform, educate and sensitize adolescents and young people about disorders related to the use of psychoactive substances. To date, we count 7 coalitions in Lomé .
July 2020
Supporting the implementation of the WHO Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
The project aims to improve public health through strengthening the Togolese Tobacco Control Law. The main objective is to achieve the integration of a 100% smoke-free policy and graphic pictorial health warning in the law in line with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
May 2020
Health Accountability Project-HAP
The accountability initiatives were aimed at promoting effective and substantive civic engagement and civilian oversight to ensure adequate access to essential drugs and medicines within the public health facilities in Elgeyo Marakwet county.
May 2020
Action For Transparency
The project is aimed at empowering citizens to monitor the usage of public resources in the health sector and to report any misappropriation through ICT platforms including a mobile application and website.
May 2020
Mobile Drug Tracking System (MDTS)
The main objective of the Mobile Drug Tracking System (MDTS) was to increase citizens' participation in anti-corruption efforts by assisting them in tracking pharmaceutical commodities in their local health facilities. It specifically allows citizens, community health workers and hospital management committees to scan and monitor stocks. Additionally, it empowers citizens to hold the governing institutions accountable with the information and knowledge gained through the tool.
May 2020
Pharmaceutical Procurement
This project involved the creation of the Forum for Transparency and Accountability in Pharmaceutical Procurement which brings together various stakeholders in the health sector including the Ministry of Health, CSOs, the Public Procurement Authority and others, with the objective of monitoring pharmaceutical procurement and supply chain management and improving transparency and accountability in the health sector. It also involved the development of a Mobile Drug Tracking System and the Drug Price Index to support pharmaceutical procurement monitoring.
May 2020
Increasing Participation, Accountability, Responsiveness and Transparency (PART): focus on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and other MDG-related interventions in the health sector in Ghana’
The central aim is to enhance transparency and accountability in the flow and utilisation of NHIS financial resources which is aimed to lead to improved health service delivery in selected marginalised districts by December 2014. The original project was focused on three regions and was financially supported by STAR-Ghana, a multi-donor agency.
November 2019
Improving Basic Healthcare Service Delivery in Cameroon by Promoting Innovative Whistle-blowing Techniques
The project aimed to reinforce transparency, accountability, participation and integrity in public hospitals in Cameroon by raising awareness of healthcare rights amongst the patients and providing an independent mechanism to report instances of corruption.
November 2019
Fight against Illicit Trade of Pharmaceutical Products.
The aim was to raise public awareness for the impact of sub-standard and falsified medicines (SFM) on patients' health and to advocate for law enforcement operations to promote the seizure of SFM.
November 2019
Community and Health Provider-driven Social Accountability Intervention (CaPSAI)
The aim of the CaPSAI project is two-fold:
- Describe and examine how social accountability processes are implemented and operationalized with a focus on understanding behaviours, decision-making processes, and the barriers and enablers of change, with a view to generalizability;
- Develop more responsive quantitative measures for social accountability and show the relationship between social accountability and uptake of contraceptives and use of other family planning measures.
Partners
Global Partners:
European Union GlaxoSmithKline Plc. World Health Organisation (WHO) Novartis FOJO UNDPRegional Partners:
Governmental Institution
NGO or Civil Society Organisation
Community
District health officers
District level task forces
District local government
Individuals or general public
Ministry of Health
Village Health Teams
International Agency
Media
Business
Hospital Health Management Committees
Regional Delegation of Public Health
Population Council