►Memorandums of Understanding

The following initiatives are enabling Heartfile to contribute to strengthening the evidence base of health reforms in Pakistan

Charting the first road map for health reform in Pakistan in a document entitled ‘Health Reforms in Pakistan – a way forward: the Gateway Paper’; this strategy has been  recognized as a blue print for health reform in the country, based on which a new national policy is being developed for Pakistan. ►

Conducting a series of national meetings – the post gateway ► roundtables to get a consensus on the strategy proposed by the Gateway Paper

Contributing time pro bono to develop drafts of the national and provincial (Province of NWFP) health policies of Pakistan under memorandums of understanding with the ► Federal Ministry of Health and the ► Provincial Government of NWFP, both of who expressed a desire to develop a health policy based on the Gateway Papers approach to health systems. The documents are embargoed until their release.

Providing pro bono strategic support to the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) of the Government of Pakistan under a ► memorandum of understanding to enable them to develop a system to collate data from various sources in Pakistan and report them as health indicators, periodically.  The first output of this initiative, a monograph ► entitled ‘Health Indicators of Pakistan’ has been authored by
► President Heartfile and is due for release shortly.

Working in collaboration with the World Bank and Asian Development bank supported Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) to assess corruption in the health service delivery area with the objective of coming up with an action plan to bring greater transparency in governance and service delivery in the health sector in Pakistan. ► Project agreement can be accessed here.

Working in collaboration with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to conducting a strategic analysis with a view to developing an action plan to institutionally integrate the delivery of population and health services in Pakistan  and to mainstream population planning and the delivery of its services into health policy and planning. Project outline can be accessed here ►.

Previously, Heartfile, supported the development of a health information system in the aftermath of the October 8, 2005 earthquake. This database system generated regular reports to facilitate the Ministry of Health in its strategic planning with regards to relief efforts in the affected areas. The ► one month report and other  daily reports generated at the time can be accessed here ►.