Sector wide approaches (SWAps) have become a key vehicle for the
delivery of health sector strategies in Africa ,
Asia and Latin America .
Supporting international thinking on harmonisation and
promotion of national ownership, SWAps facilitate government led
health policies and strategies and the rational use of scarce
resources. As we near 2015, the pressure is on these sector
programmes to deliver on improved service quality, broader access
and better value for money.
Our track record in SWAps
HLSP has provided policy advice and technical support for the
implementation of health SWAps in many low-income countries.
Through this work and that of the HLSP Institute we have gained a
reputation for high quality policy advice and development of
training programmes on SWAps.
For more than a decade, HLSP has been supporting countries around
the world prepare for, design, implement and evaluate SWAps. Our
expertise ranges from supporting governments and donors in
conceptual thinking to addressing the practical problems of making
a sector wide approach work in a variety of policy and resource
poor environments.
HLSP has provided extensive support to governments, development
agencies and national institutions preparing for a sector wide
approach. We can offer familiarisation training to develop
understanding of the meaning and practical implications of sector
wide approaches, and facilitation between stakeholders to build
consensus on the way forward. We also have extensive experience of
supporting the process of preparing a sector strategy, and
developing implementation systems and
monitoring frameworks.
