LITERATURE REVIEW ON HEALTH FACILITY MAPPING
[1] Powering Health Facilities - Approach (April 2020); Published by the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Inititative, Andromeda Tower 15th Floor, Donau City Strasse 6, 1220 Vienna, Austria; seforall.org; Luc Severi, Programme Manager, Power Healthcare; Luc.Severi@seforall.org
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Summary: This document describes a typical lifecycle approach for kickstarting a large-scale health facility electrification intervention. Under normal circumstances, and depending on the scope and scale of the intervention, the steps as described below could take up to several months. Under an emergency setting, when urgency is of the upmost importance, several steps can be expedited, as well as run in parallel, as described in this document.
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[2] National Health Facility Master List (November 2018); Published by the Ministry of Health, P.O Box 7272, Kampala, Uganda. Email: dghs@health.go.ug Website: http://www.health.go.ug
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Summary: The Republic of Uganda National Health Facility Master List is a complete listing of 6,937 health facilities and special clinics across 128 districts. 45.16% (3,133) of health facilities are government (GOV) owned; 14.44% (1,002) are private, not-for-profit (PNFP); 40.29% (2,795) are private for-profit (PFP); and 0.10% (7) community-owned facilities. GOVs and PNFPs are mostly higher levels of health facilities, while PFP facilities consist of lower levels (HC IIs and clinics). There are 2 National Referral Hospitals, 13 Regional Referral Hospitals, 3 Referral Hospitals, 163 General Hospitals, 222 Health Centre IVs, 1,574 Health centre IIIs, 3,365 Health Centre IIs, 1572 Clinics and 24 Special Clinics from TASO, AIDS Information Centre (AIC) and Children’s AIDS Fund Uganda (CAFU). The list provides: (i) complete list of health facilities by location, level, ownership and status of functionality; (ii) unique Codes for identification of health facilities and administrative units and serves a single reference point by all stakeholders; and (iii) a guide effective planning for equitable distribution of resources, services, staffing, rational distribution of medicines and supplies, and access. (File: UG_MoH_17)
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[3] The Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) (July 2018); Published by the World Health Organization (WHO), Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Contact; Website: https://www.who.int/
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Summary: The service availability and readiness assessment (SARA) methodology was developed through a joint World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) collaboration. The methodology builds upon previous and current approaches designed to assess service delivery including the service availability mapping (SAM) tool developed by WHO, and the service provision assessment (SPA) tool developed by ICF International under the USAID-funded MEASURE DHS project (monitoring and evaluation to assess and use results, demographic and health surveys) project, among others. It draws on best practices and lessons learned from the many countries that have implemented health facility assessments as well as guidelines and standards developed by WHO technical programs and the work of the International Health Facility Assessment Network (IHFAN).
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[4] Uganda Services Availability and Readiness Assessment 2013; Published by the Ministry of Health, P.O Box 7272, Kampala, Uganda. Email: dghs@health.go.ug Website: http://www.health.go.ug
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Summary: Uganda has conducted three national Service Availability and Readiness Assessments (SARA) to assess service delivery in health facilities. In 2012 it covered 5 districts and 95 health facilities. In 2013 the sample increased to 209 facilities in 10 districts. (The 2014 SARA Report is not available electronically.) The SARA reports identifies at the percentage of facilities that offer a particular health intervention (service availability) as well as whether facilities offering the service have the minimum set of items (equipment, trained staff and guidelines, diagnostic capacity, and medicines) in order to provide an adequate level of service (service readiness). The SARA methodology is the basis for the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Government of Republic of Uganda (GoU) has established a policy standard for HC facility classification referred to as the "Health Facility Availability Standards Framework."
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[5] Modern Energy Services for Health Facilities in Resource-Constrained Settings: A Review of Status, Significance, Challenges and Measurement (2015); Published by the World Health Organization (WHO),
World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, and the World Bank Group (WBG),
1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433 USA.
World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, and the World Bank Group (WBG),
1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433 USA.
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Summary: This study is a joint effort by the World Health Organization (WHO), aimed at improving quality, safety and accessibility of health services in support of universal health coverage, and The World Bank in furtherance of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)-funded activity on Defining and Measuring Access to Energy for Socio-Economic Development. The WHO inputs are drawn from two years of comprehensive review of energy use in the health sector as part of the Health in the Green Economy series, for which the preliminary findings were published in 2011, and the full report is to be published in 2015. The study also draws upon the framework for measuring energy access developed by the World Bank in consultation with partner agencies to track progress under the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative. (Ref: WHO_1)
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[6] Health Facility Quality of Care Assessment Program, Facility Assessment Tool (June 2020); Published by the Ministry of Health, P.O Box 7272, Kampala, Uganda; Email: dghs@health.go.ug
Website: http://www.health.go.ug
Website: http://www.health.go.ug
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Summary: The assessment tool guides the supervisors on how to assess each standard, indicates the means of verification and operational definition for each standard. The Assessment Tool is divided into 10 modules. Each module contains a group of standards that pertain to a particular health system building block and one on client/patient centered care and safety. The service delivery module is divided in sub-sections to cater for the overall health infrastructure and service delivery by the sector priorities.
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[7] Uganda Energy Access Scale-Up Project (2020); Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD), Amber House, Plot 29/33, Kampala Road, Kampala, Uganda; E-mail: ict@energy.go.ug; Website: https://www.energyandminerals.go.ug
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Summary: The Government of Uganda (GoU), with support from the World Bank, is preparing the Uganda Energy Access Scale-up Project (EASP). The proposed EASP will support GoU’s efforts to scale-up access to electricity for households, refugee and host communities, industrial parks, commercial enterprises and public institutions, so as to spur socio-economic transformation, in line with Uganda’s Vision 2040 and other Government policies. EASP activities will build on earlier Government initiatives, in the energy sector, to support the expansion and strengthening of the electricity distribution network, scale-up service connections within the network, and increase access to off-grid electricity in refugee settlements and their host communities, and to clean cooking services outside the electricity distribution network.
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| Uganda Energy Access Scale-up Project (EASP), Terms of Reference (TOR) |
[8] National Support Supervision Guidelines for Health Services (September 2020); Published by the Ministry of Health, P.O Box 7272, Kampala, Uganda; Email: dghs@health.go.ug Website: http://www.health.go.ug
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Summary: The revised support supervision guidelines are aligned to the comprehensive support supervision strategy 2019 which was designed to step-up efforts to support supervision at all levels of health care through improved planning, coordination and resourcing to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of support supervision. The guidelines will focus more effort to the Community Health Services Departments at the RRHs to coordinate technical support supervision of the districts and the lower level health facilities. Further, the guidelines will focus on compliance with the expected service standards; progress towards attainment of the set targets and recognition and reward of those meeting the targets; prioritizing and addressing gaps on site and improving documentation and follow-up of actions.
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| National Support Supervision Guidelines for Health Services |