Sydani Group – Redefining Excellence Consistently
Strengthening the Health Sector Budgeting Process
Project Details
Country: Nigeria
Industry: Health
Competence: Financial Modelling & Health Financing
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Context
With funding from BMGF, and in partnership with R4D, Sydani has been providing technical assistance support to the Federal Ministry of Health in strengthening its planning and budgeting processes to demonstrate value for money.
Stakeholder consultations were conducted across the departments of planning and department of budgeting and finance to understand the challenges with the budget process along the entire value chain.
The Results
Using findings, a health sector planning and costing tool was designed to facilitate the development and costing of health sector annual operational plans drawn from the NSHDP II, the capacity of the relevant planning and budgeting officers was built to use the tool, a budget process map and calendar was designed to serve as a reminder for prompt planning and budget and timely submission of the budget
Planning officers were trained on prioritization and re-prioritization, and both planning and budgeting officers were provided with M&E tools to promote budget monitoring, reporting, and use of budget data for action. The objective of this project is to ensure that the health sector is intentionally demonstrating value for money and strongly positioning itself to advocate for adequate and sustainable funding allocation.