Health ministry launches Harmonized Planning Programme – aimnews.org

Maputo, 3 April (AIM) – The Ministry of Health of Mozambique launched on Thursday a Harmonized Planning Program that aims to optimize the use of available financial resources in a context of reduced donor funding.

According to the Minister of Health, Ussene Isse, the initiative aims to align the sector’s actions at national level, involving the government, partners, civil society and communities, in order to achieve more efficient and sustainable results.

The minister explained that the new model is based on the principle of “a plan, a budget and a monitoring system”, allowing to maximize the use of scarce resources.

“This approach will help us to better use available resources and ensure a greater impact of interventions in the health sector. Among the main challenges facing the sector are reduced funding, limited visibility of available resources, fragmentation of interventions and duplication of actions at local level”, he stated.

These weaknesses, he said, result in inefficiencies, making it difficult to respond to the communities’ priority problems.

The minister highlighted that harmonized planning will allow for a clearer definition of priorities, as well as a more efficient allocation of resources.

The initiative should also strengthen the community subsystem, promoting greater coherence between the priorities of the health sector and other areas of development, with a direct impact on improving access to healthcare.

Isse also highlighted the role of donors, euphemistically called “cooperation partners”, whose interventions, especially at community level, will be better coordinated through this model.

“The objective is to create a clear matrix of interventions by non-governmental organizations and partners, by province and district, in order to avoid duplication and improve the effectiveness of actions”, he said.
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