Thanks to support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GBSN undertook a Health Leadership and Management Training Survey in three countries (Nigeria, Kenya, and Senegal) in order to provide a solid foundation for designing one or more interventions, drawing on the specific contributions of business schools, which will significantly strengthen health care management in these countries.

Project Design

This “scoping” or landscaping exercise focused on a sample of countries, which capture significant differences as well as similarities in the challenges facing the health sector, in terms of managerial and technological capabilities, toward designing strategic approaches as well as more applied measures which will improve service delivery.

Pilot Countries:

Each country presents a variety of challenges to achieving the professionalization of health care management, both in terms of key functional skills, as well as strategic decision-making.

• Kenya as a hub for Anglophone East Africa
• Senegal as a hub for Francophone Africa
• Nigeria

This survey investigated several key areas:

• Health System Governance and Regulation
• Management of Service Delivery
• Health Policy: Performance, Challenges and Priorities
• Implications for Health Care Management
• Institutional Readiness for Health Care Management
• Value Added of Business Schools in Health Care Management

The findings of this survey will be used to identify effective and relevant interventions in the health care sector. The recommended interventions will share the goal of strengthening leadership in public health and professionalizing health management in the three pilot countries, and by the replication of this project, throughout the developing world.