OVERVIEW

The health sector in Mozambique is faced with multiple financing challenges, limited domestic resources, plateauing donor support and increasing absolute level of out-of-pocket expenditures. This contributes to limiting access to care for people in need.  Palladium and its partners support Mozambican partners and stakeholders to improve the enabling environment for HIV, Family Planning and Reproductive Health (FP/RH), and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and the Palladium/Health Policy Project (HPP), 2010 –2015 collaborated with USAID and the Mozambican Ministry of Health (MISAU) on a program that supported costing of Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) programs.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Health Policy Plus: Mozambique (HP+) aims to improve the environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation, with an emphasis on voluntary, rights-based health programs, and by strengthening in-country partners’ capacity to navigate complex environments for effective policy design, implementation, and financing aligned to their priorities. To address multiple financing challenges faced by the health sector in Mozambique, HP+ supports MISAU for the Implementation of the Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNACH) Investment Case; and provides technical assistance to support public financial management functions to MISAU.

EXPECTED RESULTS/IMPACTS

Component 1: Support to MISAU for the Implementation of the RMNACH Investment Case;

Component 2: Improved public financial management capacity at MISAU