Consultancy on tracking of health expenditure

VN021 – Consultancy on tracking of health expenditure

Purpose of the consultancy

The WHO Viet Nam office is seeking technical assistance support to the Ministry of Health and the Health Policy Strategy Institude on tracking of health expenditure.

Background

Health expenditure information is needed to revise health financing policies and monitor health systems performance. Since 2017, the World Health Organization and OECD have supported the reporting of health expenditure estimates using the System of Health Accounts (SHA) 2011 framework, which provides international standards for classifying health expenditures. Viet Nam has transitioned to using the SHA 2011 framework since 2017 to report and produced the National Health Account (NHA) Report 2020-2021 as the latest update. WHO has been supporting the Ministry of Health in this process and helped to track specific priorities such as COVID-19 expenditure.

Over the past couple of years, WHO developed a new version of health accounts production tool (HAPT) online version and recommended countries to report expenditure data via this platform. The new HAPT makes the data estimation easier and records and maintains all the methodological approaches used. This approach is an important milestone to institutionalize the health accounts system in Member States and will help countries to keep the health expenditure data available and accessible through many years regardless of changes of focal points or experts.

The national health accounts team of Viet Nam requests WHO to continue supporting the institutionalization of data collection, estimation, and use of health expenditure information, as well as learning by doing training to use the new HAPT. It is especially timely, when the government is undertaking a substantive administrative restructuring of health system, and the health accounts production needs to be institutionalized and developed on sustainable basis.

WHO plans to provide technical assistance support to the Ministry of Health and the Health Policy Strategy Institute to:

Achieve a transparent and unified national health accounts database based on the health accounts production tool (HAPT)
Review and strengthen the national framework for tracking the primary health care and traditional medicine expenditure

Strengthen the capacity of health accounts technical team.

Recruitment process instructions

Please take note of the following when submitting application/proposal:

The contractor will be responsible for paying taxes, if any.

Those who are interested can contact us and submit an application/proposal before 20 Jun 2025.

Administrative Officer

World Health Organization

UN Building, 304 Kim Ma Street,

Hanoi, Viet Nam

wpvnmapplicants@who.int