Improving Health Budget Execution: Learning from Country Experience

This course focuses on processes used by countries to set health priorities that are reflected in national health policies. The course will review, among other topics:

• The importance of improving budget execution for the health sector.
• What is meant by budget execution, what elements a budget execution process is comprised of and the development of a framework to improve budget execution.
• How to engage stakeholders throughout the process, with country examples and references to tools for identifying and engaging stakeholders.
• What steps and approaches can be taken to help build stakeholder buy and consensus.

This course is an interactive, four module, online self-study course; each module allows participants to engage with the materials and reflect on their own country’s context.

Course Structure

Module 1: Introduction  

Module 2: Budget execution basics

Module 3: Promising practices

Module 4: Bringing it all together