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3. Leverage payment reform to promote team-based care, coordination, and quality. Countries can expand the use of strategic/value-based purchasing to facilitate team-based care models. Patients’ voices should be heard when designing provider payment mechanisms. 4. Create an accountability framework that links resources to results. Resource mobilization tends to be more successful when accompanied by a strong accountability framework. Transparent measurement of PHC financing, which has been a weak link in many countries, is critical.
What the World Bank and its partners will do The World Bank will use its lending, learning, and leadership to support countries in delivering the promise of reimagined PHC. 1. Lending: accelerate access to funding for PHC reforms. The World Bank will work with the Global Finance Facility (GFF) and other Global Action Plan (GAP) PHC Accelerator partners to facilitate countries’ access to funds for PHC-oriented system reforms. Advancing PHC assertively in COVID-19 health system-strengthening operations and the GFF Essential Services Grants will be a “win-win” for countries and the World Bank’s programs. 2. Learning: mobilize practice-relevant PHC knowledge. Together with analytic and financial partners, the World Bank will strengthen global knowledge hubs for PHC, including the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI), and ensure that they are equipped to achieve even more in the years ahead. World Bank technical assistance to countries will support the integration and operationalization of PHC knowledge in policies and programs. 3. Leadership: develop country-specific policy options through dialogue. To support national leadership in PHC reform and facilitate a multisectoral whole-of-government approach, the World Bank Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice, together with other global practices (such as Agriculture and Environment) and the Human Capital Project, will establish a dedicated platform for policy dialogue, advice, and technical assistance to ministries of health and ministries of finance. Dialogue will identify entry points and strengthen relationships for subsequent country-level technical collaboration and financial support, building on and further leveraging the GFF country leadership program. 7
