Reinforcing priority setting and design and delivery of health services packages for universal health coverage

This document outlines the reasoning and strategic directions for a viable and sustainable technical cooperation approach to priority-setting, and the design and delivery of essential health services to achieve universal health coverage. The proposed approach is based on primary health care and builds upon the concept, evidence and experience accumulated by the Disease Control Priorities 3 Country Translation initiative. It presents a novel technical cooperation model that outlines a viable programmatic and sustainable role for DCP3 and similar initiatives in support of low- and lower-middle-income countries. We believe such a model has the potential of establishing a strong technical support platform that can be leveraged by countries to deliver on UHC commitments. The proposed model has three key, highly coordinated, and inter-connected pillars, rooted at the country and regional levels. The centrality of country ownership, country needs and variation in country contexts is a vital element of this approach.