Pilots – Accelerate HSS Asia HPSR

HPSRIs from six countries – India, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, and Sri Lanka – implemented activities that aimed to map and strengthen HSPRI capacity, coordinate and enhance training, and increase understanding of domestic HPSR funding streams. The pilots achieved the following:

Developed two country frameworks and one joint framework to assess HPSRI organizational capacities, or robustness.
Hosted a capacity strengthening workshop in the Philippines which utilized this framework.
Launched a demand and mapping survey and analyzed the results.
Released a prototype regional database that captures HPSRIs geographies of work and organizational capacities
Developed a framework to assess domestic financing opportunities, using desk research and complemented by case studies in Thailand and Vietnam.
Integrated core Flagship content into the L4UHC program in India, reaching representatives from 4 states and the National Health Authority.

Through a series of convenings, the pilot HPSRIs shared learnings with the wider HPSR community and validate shared learning questions, priority skill and thematic areas to support, and opportunities to strengthen relationships and connections across the ecosystem to build upon these accomplishments. Watch the videos below.

Forum for Advancing Better Health Policy and Systems Research Institutions | Alliance for Improving Health Outcomes (Philippines)

Creating a HPSRI-led joint framework to understand what makes a ‘robust’ HPSRI in Asia that feeds into capacity development opportunities through seasonal schools.

Pilot scope countries: Philippines, Nepal

Forum for Advancing Better Health Policy and Systems Research Institutions | Herd International (Nepal)

Creating a HPSRI-led joint framework to understand what makes a ‘robust’ HPSRI in Asia that feeds into capacity development opportunities through seasonal schools.

Pilot scope countries: Philippines, Nepal

Framework to assess domestic financing | Seoul National University (South Korea)

Developing a mixed-methods study to evaluate available funding pathways in selected Asian countries, mapping the challenges and potential solutions for identifying and capturing domestic funding for HPSR in selected geographies at the national and sub-national

Pilot scope countries: Thailand, Vietnam

Lessons learned from implementation are summarized in the presentation above.

Enhancing training and learning programs | Institute for Health Policy (Sri Lanka

Customizing and aligning content delivered through the ANHSS’s Flagship cluster and the L4UHC program in Asia and strategically engaging HSPRIS in development and delivery.

Pilot scope countries: India

Lessons learned from implementation are summarized in the presentation above.

Building a regional database of HPSRIs

Universitas Gadjah Madas (Indonesia) and ACCESS Health (India)

Creating a database of HPSRIs at national and subnational levels that profiles their areas of interest, capacities and needs, and other indicators that allow them to play a significant role in the health systems ecosystem, along with selected case studies.

Pilot scope countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippines.