The Health and Child Care Committee is currently conducting an enquiry on challenges affecting the health sector, especially those related to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The issue of Public Finance Management (PFM) is at the core of how the Health sector and delivery of quality healthcare services has been affected.
In that vein, SAPST in collaboration with ZIMCODD produced a paper concerning Public Finance Management challenges facing the Health Sector. This paper provides insights on how systemic weaknesses within the country’s public finance system contribute to worsening health service delivery. The paper can be useful to Civil Society Organisations working in the health sector as well as inform Parliament Committees in their work.
A key assumption underpinning the paper is that understanding specific aspects of the relationship between public finance management and the health system and subsequent service delivery is critical to thinking through and implementing solutions. The paper also seeks to stimulate multi-stakeholder conversation, engagement and collective responsibility aimed at creating an enabling environment for effective PFM that contributes to improved health outcomes in spite of the perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.-SAPST
