WHO Seeks Effective Health Sector Funding Utilisation 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advocated increased systematic approach in making the resources budgeted for health sector more efficiently and effectively utilised.
WHO’s Southeast Zone Coordinator, Dr Chukwumuanya Igboekwu, made the call, midweek, at a two-day stakeholders’ engagement and Co-creation workshop on Cross Programmatic Efficiency Analysis (CPEA) Project, in Awka.
Igboekwu said such systematic approach would address inefficiencies, duplications and misalignments that were constituting waste in nation’s healthcare systems.
He also called for joint planning between government and donor partners to ensure efficient allocation of available resources.
“The WHO has severally encouraged state governments on increased budgetary allocation to the health sector for human capital management and development.
“We are also canvassing for more systematic approach to making the resources budgeted to the health sector to be more efficiently and effectively utilised.
“If we can identify inefficiencies and entrench culture of efficiency from planning to implementation stages of various projects, unnecessary wastages will be minimised”, he said.
The coordinator said the workshop was to help stakeholders identify inefficiencies in the health system and develop implementable remedial actions towards addressing them.
“Anambra, Imo and Sokoto states are the pilot states for the CPEA project which would be extended to other states, drawing lessons learnt from the pilot states.
“The WHO is supporting this stakeholders’ engagement to establish a framework for further indepth analysis of health programmes.