Zimbabwe National Health Financing Policy : Resourcing Pathway to Universal Health Coverage 2016 - Equity and Quality in Health : Leaving No One Behind

The Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) is mandated to deliver quality and equitable health services to the population of Zimbabwe with the desire to have the highest possible level of health and quality of life for all Zimbabweans. This is to be attained through the combined efforts of individuals, communities, organizations and the Government which will allow Zimbabweans to participate fully in the development of the country. This vision will be attained through guaranteeing every Zimbabwean access to an essential health services package. The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) has therefore committed to the following Goals or Key Result Areas (KRAs): strengthening priority health programs; improving service delivery platforms or entities; and improving the enabling environment for service delivery. The goal is to have a healthy population with equitable access to quality services through a strengthened health system. As part of its mandate to give strategic direction in health sector financing, the MOHCC has developed this first Health Financing Policy (HFP): ‘Resourcing Pathway to Universal Health Coverage’, 2016-2026. The policy will be followed by an implementation strategy to be developed by the GoZ. The HFP is fully based on evidence gathered from a large range of documents produced by MOHCC in collaboration with partners such as the Public Expenditure Review (2015), Health Sector Resource Mapping (2015), the National Health Strategy (2016), the National Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (2016), and the National Health Accounts (NHA) 2010. In addition, the development of the policy was highly informed by work done under the Universal Health Coverage Technical Working Group and the Rebuild Consortium in the evaluation of various health financing options for Zimbabwe towards universal health coverage. The HFP also greatly benefitted from recent survey and government data compiled to produce National Health Accounts.