Donor funding health policy and systems research in low- and middle-income countries: how much, from where and to whom.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The need for sufficient and reliable funding to support health policy and systems research (HPSR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been widely recognised. Currently, most resources to support such activities come from traditional development assistance for health (DAH) donors; however, few studies have examined the levels, trends, sources and national recipients of such support - a gap this research seeks to address.

Method

Using OECD's Creditor Reporting System database, we classified donor funding commitments using a keyword analysis of the project-level descriptions of donor supported projects to estimate total funding available for HPSR-related activities annually from bilateral and multilateral donors, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foun

SUBMITTER: Grepin KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5577666 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature