Global Anti-Corruption Handbook
As part of USAID’s Guide to Countering Corruption Across Sectors, USAID is releasing sector-specific handbooks that will describe in more detail particular sectoral corruption risks, challenges and considerations, as well as programmatic options for addressing them. The USAID Global Health Anti-Corruption Technical Integration Handbook provides a deep analysis of the ways in which corruption undermines development objectives across this critical sector, and the ways in which global health programming can be used to affirmatively address corruption and bolster accountability to citizens.
Pooling Reforms to Strengthen Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage
This brief focuses on how pooling arrangements—the way countries combine funding from different sources to spread the financial risk of needing to pay for health services—can be improved to accelerate progress toward UHC. It synthesizes the existing large body of normative guidance and evidence from country experiences in a way that is practical and useful, beginning with pooling as a core function of health financing for UHC; summarizing types of pooling reforms and providing country examples; discussing political considerations that may influence the feasibility or timing of technically sound improvements to pooling; and concluding with implications for countries and deeper insight into the experiences of Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Colombia, and Thailand.