Recommended reading

Sector-wide approaches for health development: a review of experience

( M. Foster; A. Brown; T. Conway / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2000)

Sector-wide approaches (SWAps) are intended to produce a single sector policy and expenditure program, but what have the experiences and consequences been in countries that have adopted SWAps for heal...

An overview of sector wide approaches (SWAps) in health: are they appropriate for aid-dependant Latin American countries?

( S. Seco; J. Martinez / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2001)

Do experiences of SWAps in the health sector suggest that the approach should be adopted in Latin-America? This paper was written for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) by the DFID...

Harmonization and MDGs: a perspective from Tanzania and Uganda

( High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) , 2003)

Harmonisation through the Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) and increased budget support has increased the resources available to the health sector over the past five years. This draft paper from the High-L...

Unwrapping the truth about Bangladesh’s essential service package

( T. Ensor / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)

In 1998 Bangladesh began a sector wide approach to extend healthcare to vulnerable groups. Per capita healthcare spending is about US$ 11. Just under US$ 3 of this is spent by the public sector, of wh...