Toolkits and Publications

At Financing Alliance for Health (FAH), Knowledge and Advocacy are key pillars that support our mission to strengthen health financing for community health systems globally. This work involves generating and sharing critical insights and advocating for sustainable financing solutions to improve health outcomes.

The Community Health Financing (CHF) Assessment Tool

This self-assessment toolkit helps policymakers, funders, and implementers to assess their current financing landscape, explore innovative funding mechanisms, and develop evidence-based strategies to strengthen community health systems.

The CHF Assessment Toolkit has 3 main components

Context Assessment

Evaluates program alignment, coverage, governance, and gender considerations

Revenue Raising Analysis

Examines current funding streams, gaps, and barriers

Innovative Financing Analysis

Explores new funding mechanisms and partnerships

Key Features

Automated recommendations based on user inputs to guide strategy development
Gender-responsive approach to ensure equitable and inclusive financing
Action planning framework to translate insights into concrete next steps
Customizable to both small-scale and national community health worker programs

Toolkit Testimonials

The CHFA tool made it possible to assess the current situation of community health financing in Senegal for the first time, to identify bottlenecks, to propose strategies for developing community health interventions and to enable different stakeholders to better define priorities and other programmatic aspects of interventions. Thanks to technical and financial support from FAH, the country has developed and is implementing a five-year action plan 2024-2028 to improve community health financing.

Publications and Case Studies

The Financing Alliance for Health produces

Publications to provide evidence-based insights such as funding gaps, innovative financing mechanisms among others that inform policy and guiding investments to develop effective health systems.

Case studies share practical insights and successful strategies from various countries, helping stakeholders learn from real-world experiences to improve community health financing and program implementation.