Positioning family planning quality within health financing for UHC: Connecting the discourse

Abstract

This brief targets the 'bridge' constituency that is coalescing between the health financing and FP communities of practice around a shared interest in making access to health services universal. With this brief, we aim to identify opportunities for the FP community of practice to advocate for the inclusion of quality, voluntary, and equitable FP services within UHC and health financing discussions. METHODOLOGY AND OUTLINE This technical brief drew on selected published and grey literature on quality of care, FP and UHC. The technical brief is divided into four sections: • Section 1: outlines the quality and the UHC agenda, their grounding in rights, challenges with measurement, and how financing arrangements may affect quality • Section 2: outlines quality and FP, its client-oriented genesis, challenges with routine measurement, and efforts to analyze FP performance within financing arrangements • Section 3: outlines quality and strategic purchasing for FP, using the five Ps analytical framework to illustrate implications for the provision of quality FP services • Section 4: summarizes three important aspects of strategic purchasing for FP quality-the use of FP data and evidence to inform purchasing, FP quality by design and FP quality by implementation within purchasing schemes