The 27th Health Sector JRM was organized by the MoH in collaboration with Health Development Partners (HDPs), Civil Society (CSOs) and the Private sector. The theme of the JRM was “Strengthening Emergency and Critical Care Services as a Catalyst to Improving Quality of Care Uganda’’. The key note address was delivered by Dr. Teri Reynolds Head of Emergency and Trauma Care, WHO Geneva on the topic “Importance of Emergency and Critical Care Services to achieve Universal Health Coverage”.
Uganda has over the last three decades undertaken several administrative reforms in the public sector, designed mainly to improve efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery. In the area of performance management, a number of initiatives have been undertaken to establish an effective performance management culture that seeks to align individual and organizational objectives, targets and outcomes to national development goals.
The AHSPR provides analysis of the health sector performance in respect to; i) the NDP III HCDP Key Results Areas (KRAs), ii) Diseases Burden, iii) Intermediate outcome indicators, and key inputs including medicines and health supplies, and financing. The report also provides an analysis of the Local Government Performance using the District League Table, Regional League Table and the Standard Unit of Output for the general hospitals and Health Centre IVs. The Ministry has also assessed its performance against the MoH Strategic Plan 2020/21 –2024/25 outputs for the Financial Year 2020/21.
The Annual Health Sector Performance Report highlights progress, challenges, lessons learnt and proposes mechanisms for improvement. The report focuses on the progress in implementation of commitments in the Ministerial Policy Statement, overall sector performance against the targets set for the Financial Year (FY) 2019/20, and trends in performance for selected indicators over the previous FYs. The compilation process was participatory with involvement of all the Sector Departments, semi-autonomous institutions, partners through the Technical Working groups, Senior Management Committee, Health Policy Advisory Committee and Top Management.
The Annual Health Sector Performance Report highlights progress, challenges, lessons learnt and proposes mechanisms for improvement. The report focuses on the progress in implementation of commitments in the Ministerial Policy Statement, overall sector performance against the targets set for the Financial Year (FY) 2018/19, and trends in performance for selected indicators over the previous FYs. The compilation process of the AHSPR FY 2018/19 was participatory with involvement of all the 14 Technical Working Groups, Senior Management Committee, Health Policy Advisory Committee and Top Management.
The guidelines provide for the context, definition of key terms, how to conduct performance planning, monitoring, appraisal, improvement, managing under performance, rewarding excellent performance while at the same time sanctioning poor performance.
The present report provides a further update on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, taking into account the discussions of the Executive Board at its 140th session. Part I reports on global and regional progress made by Member States towards achieving Goal 3 (ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages) and its interlinked targets, as well as other health-related Goals and targets. It is a product of the Secretariat’s support to Member States to strengthen reporting on the 2030 Agenda. Part II describes the progress made in implementing resolution WHA69.11.
In January 2017, the Executive Board at its 140th session adopted resolution EB140.R6, in which it recommended to the Seventieth World Health Assembly the adoption of the scale of assessments for the financial period 2018−2019 set out in that resolution.
The 2019 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 as independent, analytically and empirically grounded discussions of major development issues, trends and policies.
