This annex sets out the specific objectives and methodologies employed for each
area of assessment.
TOR 1: UCS policy process and system design
The UCS had an explicit design spanning six key areas: source of finance;
budget requirement for the programme; allocation methods to provinces; provider
payment methods; primary health care as gatekeeper; and private provider
collaborations. This part of the assessment looked at why and how these
features were secured in the policy formulation process across the four interrelated
functions of financing universal health coverage: revenue generation, pooling,
purchasing and sustainability.
Objectives
1. To explain and contrast how and why the four interrelated financing features
evolved as the UCS was designed.
2. To explain how and why different actors with varying powers, influences and
positions, in different contexts, influenced the shaping of these inter-related
key features.