Report of the WHO technical workshop on addressing cross-programmatic inefficiencies in the WHO African Region, 7–9 June 2022

Overview

The World Health Organization Headquarters Health Financing Team (WHO HQ) and WHO African Region (AFRO), with support from Results for Development (R4D), hosted a three-day virtual workshop between June 7-9 2022. The workshop convened a diverse set of stakeholders, primarily participants from seven AFRO countries who had conducted a Cross-Programmatic Efficiency Analysis (CPEA) assessment: Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. The primary objective of this Technical Workshop was to enable learning and collaboration across countries in AFRO that have conducted a CPEA to facilitate real and sustainable policy progress to target and resolve inefficiencies. The findings from CPEA have implications for many stakeholders, budget areas, service delivery platforms and overall system organization.

This meeting report includes (1) a synthesis of the findings and messages related to AFRO’s CPEA implementation, including both the cross-programmatic inefficiencies identified as well as mechanisms to address them and (2) country specific briefs towards addressing identified inefficiencies.