Corruption Category Financing
Anti-corruption work relating to healthcare budgeting and financing. The theft of funds from health systems is a serious issue in many countries. The loss of healthcare funds reduces the total amount available to provide services and treatments for patients.
Chapters
Research
July 2020
Transparency and accountability in public administration and service
Research using data from ProZorro showed that there is considerable monopolization on procurement in Ukraine's health sector. ProZorro is an online public procurement platform and a collaboration environment that ensures open access to public procurement (tenders) in Ukraine.
May 2020
Governance Challenges in Health Sector and the way out
Despite some successes, hindrances to good governance prevail in health sector. According to TI-Bangladesh's National Household Survey (2012), 40.2% of the recipients of health services from public institutions became victims of irregularities and corruption while receiving services. According to this survey, the estimated amount of bribes at the national level in this sector amounted to…
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…
Projects
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).
Partners
Global Partners:
EBRD Eurasia Foundation Omidyar Network Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services (TAPAS) programRegional Partners:
Ministry of Health and Family Planning
Governmental Institution
NGO or Civil Society Organisation