The UNICEF Health Systems Strengthening Approach
UNICEF engages in health systems strengthening to promote the survival, growth and development of children and women, especially for the most vulnerable.
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Highlights
Areas of focus at the three main levels of the health system l At community level: creating demand for and ensuring the provision of essential and affordable health and related services of appropriate quality, building on integrated community case management; working to influence social norms or barriers that deny the rights of children and women to access care, and related behaviours; supporting initiatives to overcome financial barriers to health service access; improving the accountability of local health and community leaders for the key determinants of health and for health outcomes; and strengthening resilience and emergency response capacity. l At district level: improving health managers’ capacity for evidence-based planning, budgeting, supervision and monitoring of priority interventions for children and women; integration with community-based systems; coordination with other sectors (WASH, child protection, education etc.); and efforts to formalize contingency planning and emergency response capacity. l At national level: contributing to evidence-based and equitable national strategic plans and policies for children’s and women’s health, through strengthened use of evidence, equity analysis, costing and fiscal space analysis (in close collaboration with government and partners); leveraging of national and international resources; and linking with UNICEF contributions in other sectors (child protection and welfare, social inclusion and protection, education, C4D, WASH, HIV and nutrition).
