In 2016, one of every two maternal deaths that occurred in Bungoma were caused by blood loss. Today, we launch the E4A-Mama Ye campaign #DamuniUhai, calling for funding for blood services in Bungoma…
Nigeria’s Second National Strategic Health Development Plan, was launched early this year alongside the long-awaited Basic Health Care Provision Fund. These strategies have the potential to transform…
Our blog series on youth advocates engaged in the GFF continues with Massita, a sexual and reproductive health ambassador from Burkina Faso. During the first E4A-MamaYe GFF CSO Senegal workshop in…
Aminata is a Senegalese lawyer working on gender and human rights in Senegal. In this blog, she sets out her strategy, which she believes will ensure the effective participation of youth in the GFF.
The Global Financing Facility is a financing mechanism for Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child Adolescent Health and Nutrition. With youth accounting for a third of the world’s population, they are…
In October 2018, E4A-MamaYe brought together French speaking civil society from across Africa to share experiences and knowledge around the Global Financing Facility (GFF).
E4A-MamaYe initie aujourd’hui, au nom du Groupe mondial de coordination de la société civile pour le GFF, et en collaboration avec la Coalition des organisations de la société civile, un atelier de…
Today, E4A-MamaYe, on behalf of the Global Civil Society Coordinating Group on the GFF, and in collaboration with the Coalition for Civil Society Organisations in Senegal, starts a three-day workshop…
At E4A–MamaYe, we actively work with CSOs in Nigeria to strengthen their capacity to engage meaningfully in the implementation of the Global Financing Facility (the GFF).
In Kenya, E4A-Mama Ye has supported CSOs to produce the first scorecard measuring the country’s progress on the Global Financing Facility (GFF) implementation.
The #FundNaijaHealth campaign is calling on government to release all appropriated health allocations on time, as this will enhance access to the health care that citizens, particularly mothers and…
As we mark this year’s World Health Day with the theme ‘Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere’, we reflect on global efforts towards achieving Universal Health Coverage and what this means…
In Nigeria, the process of government creating a new budget line can be long and hard. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris knows this too well, and he explains some of the reasons why…
The 8th of August 2017 was a historic day for Kenya. Kenyans participated in their second ever general election since the promulgation of the 2010 constitution on August 8 to elect their political…
Dedication. Commitment. Spirit of inclusion. Desire to see effective and efficient service delivery in the health sector. These are just some of the few terms to describe the recent results of the…
The Gombe State Scorecard shows that Gombe needs more transparency in its budget process. With the support from MamaYe, the Gombe State Accountability Mechanism for Maternal and Newborn Health (GoSAM…
E4A flew to Senegal this week to support CICODEV Africa at the first national round table on budgeting for health and to hold training in health budget advocacy.
The Lagos State Accountability for Maternal and Newborn Health (LASAM), with support from MamaYe, has produced and disseminated scorecards to assess the performance of Lagos State.
Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN) and E4A-MamaYe are delighted to announce that the secretariat of AHBN has moved to Nigeria where the AHBN Coordinator, Aminu Magashi Garba is located.
For countries’ FP2020 commitments to result in improved family planning uptake, commitments need to translate into increased budgetary allocations and actual expenditure on family planning.
Following the success of Health Budget Transparency and Accountability in Mzimba, Nkhata Bay and Rumphi, E4A-MamaYe has been asked to support a similar effort in Ntcheu district.
Sarah Fox, Technical Specialist at E4A, presented the Global GFF Civil Society Engagement Strategy which provides a useful framework for identifying the unique value of civil society in achieving the…
MamaYe Malawi has been supporting Rumphi district in participating in the budget transparency and accountability process through a series of assessments.
On Thursday 11 May, we had the first civil society meeting on the Global Financing Facility (GFF) in Sierra Leone.
The highest priority set for health budget according to the Abuja Declaration is 15%, but analysis shows how low Nigeria's budgeting has been from 2010-2016.
This month's spotlight: Victor Lansana Koroma, the Executive Director of Health Alert, a civil society organisation in Sierra Leone that advocates to improve the health of women and children.
Celebrating the MamaYe Day 2017 in Lagos was an opportunity for the government and the people of Lagos State to discuss the implementation of Lagos State Health Insurance Scheme.
The GFF Learning Meeting as well as the Spring Meetings in DC have provided a number of opportunities for civil society to share experiences, constraints and opportunities for meaningful engagement…
Civil society plays an essential role in ensuring global discussions are informed by local realities, and the needs of the women, children, and adolescents that the GFF aims to support.
The AHBN training was intense and provided unique opportunities for sharing experiences from the six participating African nations. It helped build capacity of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in…
Esther Agbon met with health budget advocates from six countries in Africa – Senegal, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania; working to strengthen their ability to carry out effective…
The commemoration of the MamaYe Day 2017 focused on the effect that the continued paltry budget allocation to health has on maternal and newborn health care services.
Joyce Ng’ang’a is a Policy and Advocacy Program Officer at WACI Health - An African region advocacy organization based in Nairobi. Read her story.
Earlier this month, Sarah Fox, E4A Health Financing Specialist, spent two days at the PHC Expenditure and Budget Advocacy Consultation convened by PAI in South Africa. Read about her key take aways…
Let's meet Esther Agbon, Health Finance and Advocacy advisor for the E4A - MamaYe programme in Nigeria where she leads on the analysis of health budgets and on how to make them easy to be…
MamaYe Nigeria combined radio with other advocacy efforts to secure the commitment of Bauchi State government to allocate 15% of the State's total budget to health.
Mzimba District Council has seen a tremendous improvement on budget transparency and dissemination as people are being made aware of district funding.
The importance of transparency, accountability and probity in resource management and utilization
Due to the works of the Bauchi State Accountability Mechanism for Maternal and Newborn Health (BASAM), the Bauchi State government has continued its commitment to health improvement by allocating 16…
Aminu Magashi Garba, Coordinator of the Africa Health Budget Network, shares his experiences from the Citizen-Led Accountability Workshop in Maputo, Mozambique in October 2016. The five day workshop…
In November, health budget advocates came together in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to share and learn from their experiences of engaging in the Global Financing Facility (GFF). The GFF is a new financing…
This press release from the Budget Advocacy Working Group asks the Government of Sierra Leone to invest in sexual reproductive health drugs and commodities.
MamaYe trained district councillors in northern Malawi in health budget advocacy. We are starting to see some results in how funds are being allocated with a 33% increase in allocated budget in…
Julius Mukunda, the newly elected Chair of the Africa Health Budget Network Steering Committee, is delighted to be part of an exciting journey of reinventing and revitalising the Network.
The Bauchi State Accountability Mechanism for Maternal and Newborn Health will be working with the government to ensure judicious use of resources and timely release of budget allocations and State…
Esther Agbon from MamaYe Nigeria shares her experience and passion for budget advocacy with the White Ribbon Alliance in Tanzania.
Lagos State Accountability Mechanism for Maternal and Newborn Health, with support from MamaYe Nigeria, held a media roundtable in Lagos to disseminate health budget and MNH scorecards.
Chronic apprehension that brew tension has always been reported whenever CSOs "torchlight" the activities of policy makers on issues. So, when a CSO presents a health budget scorecard of…
In this age where the call for accountability of health budget is rising, we monitor health budgeting process to reveal the areas where policy makers must improve their performances to ensure justice…
To encourage proper use of money budgeted to health, we use scorecards as a monitoring tool to understand budgeting process, its openness and implementation to elicit accountability. This budget…
Reviewing the effect Ebola had on Sierra Leone, Sallieu Sesay argues for the value of a stronger laboratory information system for health budget decision making.
The Maternal and Newborn Health Coalition Partners are gearing up for the MamaYe Health Budget Advocacy National Accountability Meeting to be held in Lilongwe in August.
Since its launch in 2014, the Africa Health Budget Network has grown into a network of more than 100 members from across Africa. As our work continues to grow we need more formal governance…
Stakeholders and a network of CSOs including opposition political parties call on Government to consider revising upward the Health Sector Budget allocation.
Parliament started meeting in Lilongwe on Friday for a 2016/2017 budget meeting barely touching upon the improvement of survival of mothers and babies in the country.
Urgent action is needed to strengthen accountability for how public money is spent, as the publication of the Panama Papers has shown. Transparency and participation are key drivers of accountability…
It is with particular delight, that we congratulate Aminu Magashi Garba of the Africa Health Budget Network who has been appointed as co-convenor of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child…
This week we held a #ValueOurHealth webinar. The webinar gave members an opportunity to share their successes and key pieces of advice on the #ValueOurHealth campaign. We also outlined the evidence-…
Our Campaign calls on governments in Sub-Saharan Africa to take urgent action to increase access to budget information and provide more opportunity for public engagement in the budgeting process.
We are calling on African governments to increase access to budget information and to provide more opportunity for public engagement in the budgeting process.
The Mzimba district council has unanimously reached the resolution that using the Health Budget Advocacy (HBA) Transparency Scorecard is the only way forward.
Kenny Simbaya from the Africa Health Budget Network reports from Washington and the launch of the #ValueOurHealth campaign on budget transparency and participation for better health spending on women…
The Nkhata Bay district council has agreed the Health Budget Advocacy (HBA) Transparency Scorecard will improve efficiency, transparency and accountability in the health budget sector formulation,…
After successfully trained the Rumphi district council and other stakeholders on the use of Health Budget Advocacy (HBA) transparency scorecard, MamaYe Malawi is taking the similar training to Nkhata…
Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group and Africa Health Budget Network have launched a campaign aimed at ensuring that government and parliament allocate sh36b in the forthcoming budget for recruitment…
Following publication of the Ministerial Policy Statement and Budget for the Ministry of Health on 15 March 2016, Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group and the Africa Health Budget Network are…
MamaYe Malawi is implementing the HBA in partnership with the National Local Government Finance Committee to improve health budget transparency and accountability.
So, as the mid-term budget review meeting of the 46th session of parliament is underway in the Capital Lilongwe, we are calling on parliamentarians to consider revising upward the health sector…
Barrister Mohammed A. Abubakar proposed 15% of the State's total budget to health after Bauchi's media and civil society long term efforts of revealing the evidence.
This is a great feat in the history of Nigeria, when a public office holder, a governor in this case, listens to the voices of civil society organisations and the media to give to the citizens what…
The Partnership on Advocacy for Family and Child Health project in Nigeria is a social accountability project funded by the Gates Foundation. It is implemented through the strategy of partnership…
In collaboration with in-country partners, the Africa Health Budget Network has developed briefs on the status of the GFF process and CSO engagement in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda, to share experiences…
Civil society from across Africa met to discuss country experiences in implementing the Global Financing Facility and develop a list of key demands for the World Bank and participating governments. A…
The Global Financing Facility (GFF) has established minimum standards of inclusiveness and transparency that all country platforms are expected to adhere to. This position paper proposes expanding on…
It will interest you to know how Nigeria fares when it comes to transparency and inclusiveness in budget and its implementation. This is an eye-opener. What Nigeria scores over 100 shows what the…
The Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health is looking for members of the United Nations Secretary General’s Independent Accountability Panel for the Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s…
The MamaYe accountability mechanism in Gombe will ensure that policy makers fulfil their promises.
What you need to know about zero-based budgeting in Nigeria and its implication for the Ministry of Health.
Sahr Dumbar Matturi reports in the Standard Times newspaper about financing for maternal and newborn health. You can read his article here.
Our colleagues at BudgIT tell us about Ebola survivors' quest to find out what happened to public money allocated to fight the Ebola epidemic.
We all gathered to witness the launch of Global Financing Facility in support of Every Woman Every Child. African NGOs present have some key demands to ensure that it has the impact required.
Lansana Sheriff, popularly known as Steady-Bongo, commits to promoting the MamaYe campaign with a song about maternal and newborn survival.
A lot of advocacy is concentrating on making the global tax system fairer, so that low-income African countries can raise revenues to spend on important priorities, like health.
The Global Financing Facility for Women and Children released their business plan on the 17 May 2015. Read on to find out all you need to know about how this new fund for reproductive, maternal,…
As the Financing for Development conference draws near, think tanks are releasing their latest evidence about what we should be asking our governments to sign up to. Budget Bites has laid out the key…
The recent spread of the Ebola virus resulted in many donations for the various countries affected by the virus. A website visualising all funds allocated to fight Ebola in West Africa has been set…
Just so we don't keep complaining that the government is not carrying out its responsibilities when we have not seen it as our responsibility to help government be on the right and informed path.
Health coalition is asking Buhari to look into existing interventions on maternal and child health, and to prioritise commitments made to improve family planning uptakes to improve the health of…
Last week we attended the Financing the Future conference organised by the Overseas Development Institute and African Centre for Economic Transformation in Accra, Ghana. Here are some of our key take…
We attended an inspiring workshop in Harare organised by Harmonisation for Health Africa, the World Health Organisation and others to get different types of stakeholders from the same country in the…
Many AHBN members may be focused on influencing the content of the Sustainable Development Goals' future health goal – currently worded as “ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing”. But what…
The Global Financing Facility will channel both domestic and external funds toward maternal and child health, in line with the next Global Strategy for women and children. Our strength in influencing…
Sowo Lebbie tells us about what makes budget advocacy working group successful, what is special about budget advocacy, and how health budget advocacy has changed in the wake of the Ebola outbreak.
In this issue of the technical corner, we’re going to walk you through the units that the mysterious world of global health expenditure indicators is typically presented in. And which ones are most…
You might already have heard of the term “fiscal space for health”. It describes whether the government has enough additional resources to increase the amount of money it spends on health without…
MamaYe Sierra Leone's Country Director, Dr Mohamed Yilla appears on this powerful piece on the BBC News to demand investment in health systems to mitigate against future outbreaks.
Sometimes you have to admit that not everyone can be a budget expert, and working in partnership with organisations that specialise in budgets, while you specialise in advocacy, is a beneficial model…
Our experience has shown that it’s important to engage at all levels of the government, including national, country and facility levels.
Engaging early in the budgeting process at the sector strategy paper stage is crucial to influencing allocations.
Can’t tell your OOPS from your GGHE? Forgot whether public funds for health includes donor funding? Fear not as Budget Bites is coming to the rescue!
12 December 2014 marked a series of marches, campaign launches, and conferences by organisations from more than 100 countries.
The lack of equity in distribution of wealth for health creates another shortcoming in channelling adequate resources to develop the health sector and achieve evidence-based outcome.
We might be operating in our own local environment, but certainly international decisions, whether we are aware of or consulted, affect how much resources come to us.
Activism is for newborn babies and pregnant women is real in Malawi. Check out what activists are doing in TA Nankumba in saving the lives of mothers and babies.
You wouldn’t be alone if you thought that understanding global health financing is a little outside of your comfort zone. But underneath all those figures, is a story of how governments,…
Budgets can be hard to understand without expert knowledge, making it difficult to establish how much has been allocated to health. Visualisation tools can make this easier, by transforming budget…
The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood Tanzania, join with women and their families around the world in celebrating the success of the global campaign to prevent deaths in pregnancy and…
Today, we work as MamaYe directors to save mothers and babies’ lives by raising expectations of survival, working to ensure decision-makers have access to good evidence, and mobilising a grass-roots…
Today, we work as MamaYe directors to save mothers and babies’ lives by raising expectations of survival, working to ensure decision-makers have access to good evidence, and mobilising a grass-roots…
The title of my article today was the communique slogan for the recently concluded third Partners' Forum that took place in Johannesburg.It was arguably rated as one of the most influential…
Africans are leading a call to action to demand better use of existing funds for African mothers and children's health, and for policy makers to fulfil promises made to improve the health of…
Call to action marks the launch of an African-led network demanding better use of existing funds for African women and children’s health as well as a greater share of African national budgets…
If the commitments to implement the Sharpened One Plan are honoured, then we could save the lives of 18,000 mothers and babies by the end of next year.
The field of maternal, newborn and child health can be hard to follow. So many acronyms - it’s like alphabetti spaghetti! In this blog, I want to pick out two acronyms for special attention because…
All around Africa, people from all walks of life, including health-workers, decision-makers, community leaders and campaigners, are working for the health of women, babies and children in their…
This is what we know, we lose 1 Sierra Leonean baby every 47 minutes and 5 women everyday in our country do not survive during child birth. The irony is this, giving life literally becomes a coin…
The Government of Sierra Leone is signatory to the Abuja Declaration that commits to 15% of the nation’s entire budget be spent on health1. In 2012, the government of Sierra Leone committed to…
When I asked many civil societies and media ‘how many of you know about national health account and how it can be use for expenditure tracking and advocacy’? Over 90% of them responded with ‘NO’.
Finding solutions that will lead to ending preventable maternal mortality: the situation, needs and possibilities and the ripple effect in infographicsTeaser image: 50.usaid.gov
“If my mother, gave birth to me through an emergency C-section at Mawenzi Hospital, Northern Tanzania, why can’t we give every mother who may need that service now, half a century later?” asks Rose…
So how much has the review (Abuja+12) of the Abuja Declaration 2001 to commit 15% of annual national budget to develop the health sector affected fulfilling the promise?
President Jonathan told African heads of government Monday to stop dependence on external funding for health programmes on the continent. Very good idea. May be that is why the 15% of national budget…
Spending more, and spending more effectively, on health services for mothers and babies, also has a positive impact on other parts of the economy.
In 2001, AU heads of states committed to allocate 15% of national budget to health development. The leaders have now come together to review progress on the promise made 12 years ago. But Nigeria has…
Health reporter and champion for maternal and newborn health, Judd-Leonard Okafor, reports the Abuja+12 and Nigeria's 15% national commitment to develop health through the eyes of MamaYe Nigeria.
President Jonathan has invited the leaders of Africa to a meeting in Abuja to review the promises they made 12 years ago - but there is still a long way to go until these commitments are met.
Would this lawmaker need to be flown abroad for good quality healthcare, if their hospitals are well equipped with well trained health workers? Rather than reforming our health sector, they go abroad…
The Budget Tracking Working Group which includes Save the Children, World Vision, Budget Advocacy Network, Health Alert, MamaYe and WASH Consortium recognizes efforts made by government to increase…
Rwanda has a much lower GDP per person than Nigeria, yet it has allocated 24% of its annual budget to health. Nigeria promised 15% but still grappling with 5.6%! What happened to the promise of 15%…
12 years ago, African heads of State met in Abuja and committed to allocating 15% of their entire budgets to health spending. This was indicative of prioritizing health as an important factor to…
In 2001, President Obasanjo promised to spend 15% of Nigeria’s total annual budget on health. In 2013, only 5.6% of the budget is being spent on health, and that number has been decreasing every year…
The president has released a statement towards the 14th-15th July 2013 African Heads of States review of the 2001 Abuja Declaration. Among other promises, Nigeria committed 15% of her annual budget…
What has the Nigerian Government pledged to do to save the lives of our mothers and babies? Below we outline some of the public pledges made by the Government at international events. MamaYe will be…
What has the Malawian Government pledged to do to save the lives of our mothers and babies? What share of the budget goes to Health? We outline some of the public pledges made by the Government at…
What has the Tanzanian government pledged to do to save the lives of our mothers and babies? Here's an overview of some of the public pledges.
What has the Ghanaian Government pledged to do to save the lives of our mothers and babies? Below we outline some of the public pledges.
