GFF/WHO Webinar Series: Health Financing & Primary Health Care
In recent years, the Global Financing Facility (GFF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have carried out learning programs with countries focused on primary health care financing, with national and subnational policymakers.
Building on these efforts, in October 2024 the GFF and WHO launched a webinar series to facilitate exchange and discussions between countries facing similar challenges with the financing of their primary health care services.
Check our events page for upcoming webinars—and watch replays of past webinars below or on our YouTube channel.
External financing for health saw sudden shifts in 2025/26, sending shockwaves across LMICs. Moving forward, it is critical to understand the scale and impact of the changes, and how countries have responded. This webinar shares global-level evidence along with responses by Uganda and Nigeria.
After a brief global overview, this webinar shares Mauritania's experience in moving toward UHC, and focuses on a common challenge faced by many LMICs: how to integrate the informal sector when a parallel contributory system has already been set up for the formal sector.
This webinar explores the conditions that enable and options to set up sustainable strategic purchasing mechanisms to support CHWs program institutionalization and performing programs. Country presentations and panel discussion focus on experiences from Kenya and Burkina Faso.
Webinar explores types and uses of digital technologies in the field of health financing, outlines the key issues at stake and summarizes the key lessons we have so far on the role of digital technologies in health financing. Experiences from Estonia, Rwanda and Ethiopia.
The development of a national health financing strategy is potentially a key moment for a country embarking on the path to UHC. In this webinar, we review the experiences of several countries to help consolidate joint efforts toward more equitable, better funded and sustainable health systems.
This report, co-developed by the WHO and the World Bank, represents a major step forward in understanding the complexities of budget execution in the health sector. The webinar highlights key findings and explore real-world strategies to improve budget execution in health—featuring insights from practitioners with first-hand experience.
This webinar gives an insider's perspective and discusses lesson learned on how Brazil has significantly strengthened its health care system through a sustained shift towards PHC and health financing reforms. Panelists from Kenya and Pakistan offer comparative insights.
High levels of fragmentation of PHC financing can reduce the effectiveness of health care service delivery. This webinar discusses the latest evidence on fragmentation, with examples from Argentina, Burkina Faso, Indonesia and Tanzania illustrating steps taken to minimize its consequences.
This webinar — the English version of the webinar no. 8 — presents an approach to help better understand RMET as a health financing tool. Discussion highlights examples from Ethiopia, Indonesia and Zimbabwe, and experts identify how this approach can help improve PHC financing.
This webinar (in French) presents an approach to help better understand RMET as a health financing tool. Discussion highlights examples from Burkina Faso and Madagascar, and experts identify how this approach can help improve PHC financing.
Conducted as part of the hashtagAfHEA2025 Conference, this webinar reviews learning strategies implemented to help African countries reform their hashtaghealth health financing systems. Panelists reflect on new theories of change that take into account the rapidly changing international context.
Law and UHC Webinar, Part 2. After a fascinating first webinar on the links between law and health financing, this follow-up session will focus on the different stages of the process of producing a law. A panel of parliamentarians and lawyers from different countries discusses how best to use this process to strengthen UHC.
Experts discuss the role of political economy in achieving successful health financing reforms, featuring insights from the experiences of Ghana and Rwanda. We also delve into approaches for incorporating political economy analysis into the design of health financing reforms.
Law and UHC Webinar, Part 1. Drawing on experiences from different countries, this webinar discusses the ingredients for success and the lessons to be learned in order to carry out effective legal reforms.
In this webinar — the first conducted in English — we review the arguments for and against greater financial autonomy of primary care facilities, obstacles to the appropriate public finance reforms and possible ways to overcome those obstacles.
This webinar dissects the stages of developing the social health protection system in Tunisia. Then, with examples from Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire, experts draw lessons from this experience that can inform the progress of other African countries in their progression toward UHC.
In this webinar, we revisit the arguments for and against greater financial autonomy for health care facilities. We take stock of the obstacles and possible solutions by reviewing the situation in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
