Table 4 Responses on the importance of health policy dialogue
From: Perspectives on health policy dialogue: definition, perceived importance and coordination
Role of health policy dialogue | Cape Verde | Chad | Liberia | Guinea | Togo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
National | National | Sub-national | National | Sub-national | National | Sub-national | National | Sub-national | |
Ensuring stakeholder participation | Joint identification of problems and possible solutions | • Ensures stakeholder participation in planning and monitoring • Facilitates collaborative and inclusive input into policy implementation at both the national and sub-national level | Joint identification of problems and possible solutions | • Joint identification of problems and possible solutions • Ensures participatory approaches to health planning, problem solving and validation of action plans | |||||
Improving harmonisation and alignment | • Achieving mutual objectives jointly with partners • Serves as a mechanism for consensus building | • Promotes alignment and harmonisation among actors | • To have good quality, consensual and MoH-owned plans that are supported by all stakeholders • Promotes alignment and harmonisation among actors | • Helps harmonise approaches, rationalise resources and improve efficiency of the health system • Improves coordination, alignment and harmonisation of actors and avoids duplications • Enables multi-sectoral coordination • Important in establishing a single framework for consultation, coordination, planning and monitoring of the implementation of health policies and strategies | • Promotes complementarity rather than competition among actors • Identifies population needs | • A mechanisms to enable seamless collaboration • Serves as a mechanism for consensus building | • Improves stakeholder collaboration and transparency | ||
Supporting implementation of health polices | • To support implementation of national health plans | • To secure commitment to support implementation | • To secure commitment to support health programmes | • To mitigate implementation challenges • To support implementation of national health plans | |||||
Continued institutional learning and evidence sharing | • Allows for contexualisation of evidence generated elsewhere | • Is an avenue for institutional learning • Serves as an information sharing forum | • Facilitates sharing of evidence among stakeholders | • Continued learning and information sharing | |||||
Providing a guiding framework | • Gives guidance to countries on interventions | ||||||||
Stakeholder analysis | • Serves to assess stakeholder positions, including external partners | ||||||||
Advocacy | • Advocacy forum for resource mobilisation | • Powerful platform for advocacy on priority issues | |||||||