Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for responding to this survey call from CSEM and GFAN!

This is a survey about current needs and opportunities for advocacy by civil society organizations for sustainable financing for health.

This survey is seeking perspectives about health financing advocacy in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).  Please share and forward this survey to anyone who might provide useful information, insights and opinions.

About us:
  • The Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (CSEM) of UHC2030 is a growing civil society constituency supporting the movement for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. CSEM aims to build strong CSO voices and contribute significantly to UHC2030, ensuring systematic attention is paid to the needs of the most marginalised and vulnerable populations so that ‘no one is left behind’.
  • The Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) exists as a platform for more than 600 organizations working throughout the world to advocate for full funding of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria programming, including funding for and through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. 

    Why this survey:

    Together, CSEM and GFAN recognize that many of the advocates in our coalitions are working on multiple sustainable health financing advocacy priorities, including promoting progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and goals of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), advocating for international development assistance for health (IDAH), adapting to the shift faced by many countries of reduced IDAH and needs for domestic resource mobilization (DRM), and advocating at national and local levels to improve service access, quality and human rights environments.

    CSEM and GFAN are now conducting this survey to collect information about current needs and opportunities for advocacy by civil society organizations for sustainable financing for health. With the results of this survey, CSEM and GFAN will develop a concept paper that can be used for discussions with donors to increase understanding about sustainable health financing advocacy (SHFa) and domestic resource mobilization advocacy (DRMa) as well as a need for increased financial support for this work.
This survey has 8 questions and should take less than 10 minutes to complete.  Responses are invited any time before May 17th.  You may save your responses and come back to change or complete this survey at any time before May 17th. 

Your responses will be kept confidential and nothing will be directly quoted or attributed to you without your direct permission. Your responses will contribute to CSEM and GFAN strategies for supporting health financing advocacy.

If you have any questions about this survey, contact GFAN at katy@icssupport.org 

Thank you!

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* 1. In your country or region, what health issues are currently being prioritized in advocacy for health financing ?

Please consider the issues prioritized by health financing advocates in your country (or region), and place the following options in a ranked order, with the first being the issue being prioritized the most, the second as the next most-prioritized, etc.  Our intent is to understand where health financing advocates are focusing most attention.

For this survey, CSEM and GFAN define “advocacy for health financing” as including:

->  Advocacy for domestic revenue mobilization for health such as for taxes or health insurance schemes.
->  Advocacy for international assistance for health including advocacy to donor countries or support for funding proposals and negotiations.
->  Advocacy for government allocations for health including funding for SDGs and UHC targets, and for health programs targeted to specific health issues and/or high-need communities.
->  Advocacy for health program implementation and quality such as expenditure monitoring, advocacy for efficiency and effectiveness of spending, and advocacy for inclusive planning and oversight, accountability to results, and accountability to addressing disparities in health, gender equity and human rights.

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* 2. Across any of the priorities selected above, can you provide examples of organizations that are doing health financing advocacy?

In the space below, please list names of organizations and the countries where they are working.

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* 3. Can you provide further description of this health financing advocacy? 

For example, if advocates are working on financing related to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as a priority, are there specific advocacy aims or actions within that priority? If advocates are working on financing related to HIV, tuberculosis, malaria or viral hepatitis as priorities, are there specific advocacy aims or actions within that priority? 
   
If you have URL links to websites or online documents, you can provide those here.  If you have documents that you could email to us, you can email these to katy@icssupport.org or write your email address here and we will send you a follow up email titled "Documents for CSEM GFAN survey" as a reminder.

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* 4. Where does funding for health financing advocacy come from?

Among the ten options below, please indicate the most significant sources of funding for health financing advocacy as described in questions 1 and 2, ranking any of the following options, with the first being the most significant funding source, the second as the next most significant funding source, and so forth.  If there is no funding for health financing advocacy in your country, or if you don't know where funding comes from, you can move one of those options up to the top.

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* 5. To the extent that there is funding to support the health financing advocacy (such as described above), has funding changed during the past five years (i.e., since 2014)?

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* 6. Looking ahead, how do you anticipate funding for health financing advocacy to change during the next five years (i.e., from 2019 through to 2024)?

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* 7. The Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (CSEM) of UHC2030 is a growing civil society constituency supporting the movement for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. CSEM aims to build strong CSO voices and contribute significantly to UHC2030, ensuring systematic attention is paid to the needs of the most marginalised and vulnerable populations so that ‘no one is left behind’.

The Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) exists as a platform for over 600 organizations working throughout the world to advocate for full funding of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria programming, including funding for and through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. 

Do you have recommendations for actions that CSEM and/or GFAN should take to better support health financing advocacy?  For example, would you recommend any specific types of information sharing, international/regional in-person meetings, in-country meetings, targeted training or technical assistance, or targeted funding initiatives?

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* 8. Can CSEM and GFAN contact you for additional opinions, insights and information about advocacy?

Thank you for your participation in this survey!

Please press "save" below to complete and exit this survey.  Your responses will help CSEM and GFAN to better understand current needs and opportunities for supporting advocacy for sustainable health financing. 

https://csemonline.net
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