Resource Tracking for Financial Accountability
Presentation given by Nirmala Ravishankar of Health Systems 20/20 at the Ronald Reagan Building January 25, 2010, as part of the Strengthening Health Systems Presentation Series.
The National Health Accounts (NHA) has been recognized internationally as a robust methodology for estimating financial resource flows into and within the health sector. The NHA estimates have traditionally been carried out in most countries as ad hoc studies that are not formally linked in any concrete way to other government planning, budgeting and monitoring, or evaluation processes. This is now changing. Governments realize that more benefit can be realized from the NHA by combining it with other resource tracking tools such as public expenditure tracking surveys or public expenditure reviews. Taken as a whole and linked to monitoring and evaluation processes, resource tracking in this broader sense can make the NHA a sustainable practice that is routine and funded with other established tools and surveys.
