Community Health
Access to Quality Health Services

With various international and local partners, the GRF designed and implemented local innovations for Health Governance such as the Health Equity Reform Project (HER),in partnership with CIDA and the Canadian Society for International Health and the LEAD for Health Project in partnership with USAID and Management Sciences for Health.

The HER project was an attempt to ensure that the ongoing health reform process in the Philippines would consider both the equity and efficiency concerns of health planning. It sought to make health personnel conscious in using an “equity lens” as a tool to make decisions to allocate resources equitably. The project provided technical assistance to strengthen local capacity for resource allocation decision-making and ensure equitable health services planning at the decentralized levels. Concepts of equity were used to identify the determinants of health as a basis for budget allocation and planning. Using a participatory approach, planners are now able to analyze and use relevant data to determine priority health problems and interventions that considered the community's actual needs and preferences.

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