Health Sector Transformation Plan 2020/21 - 2024/25.

Health Sector Transformation Plan 2020/21 - 2024/25 (HSTP-II) aims to build on the successes of the HSTP-I period (July 2015 June 2020) and incorporating the lessons from its implementation. Four transformation agendas were implemented during HSTP-I: 1) Woreda Transformation, 2) Information Revolution, 3) Transformation in Quality & Equity, and 4) Compassionate, Respectful, and Caring Health Workers.
The overall objective of HSTP-II is to improve the health status of the population by accelerating progress towards universal health coverage, protecting populations during health emergencies, transforming woredas, and improving the health system s responsiveness. Five priority issues were identified as part of the transformation agenda for HSTP-II, they follow: 1. Quality and Equity: Ensuring equity in delivery of quality health services by creating high-performing primary health care units, ensuring active engagement of the community in service delivery, and continually improving clinical care outcomes; 2. Information revolution: Significantly improving methods and practices for collecting, analyzing, presenting, using, and disseminating information that can influence decisions; 3. Motivated, competent, and compassionate health workforce: Ensuring equitable distribution and availability of an adequate number and skill mix of health workers who are motivated, competent, and compassionate to provide quality health services; 4. Health financing: Reforming public financial management and health financing to improve efficiency and accountability, while pursuing the agenda of sustainable domestic resource mobilization for health; 5. Leadership: Enhancing leadership and governance mechanisms at all levels of the health system to drive attainment of the national strategic objectives through activities to ensure alignment and harmonization, thereby creating an enabling environment for the translation of plans into results.