Table 4

Essential elements of a road map for EPHS development in the six focus countries

	Afghanistan	Ethiopia	Pakistan	Somalia	Sudan	Zanzibar (Tanzania)
Establishing a project secretariat within the MOH	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Existence of a unit within the MOH for health economics or health financing	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Considering capacity building in the initial action plan for developing UHC HBP	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Identifying and acting on areas required for training and capacity building	Priority setting, health system assessment and health economics	Systematic review, economic evaluation, equity analysis, budget impact and costing	Evidence generation and use in prioritisation, organisational restructuring for the implementation, management and health systems	Burden of disease, health system performance assessment, health economics, economic evaluation, equity analysis, budget impact and costing	Priority setting	Priority setting, health economics and costing
Capacity building mechanisms that have been adopted/implemented	On-job training	Training and graduate studies at MSc and PhD Level	Training, inside and outside of the country and graduate studies	No	Short trainings	Short trainings for 12 members of core team and 1 Master and 2 PhDs
Institutionalising capacity building in the plan	No	Yes	To some extent	No	Yes	No
Developing a communication strategy as part of the EPHS action plan	No	No	Yes, during implementation	No	No	No

EPHS, essential packages of health services; MOH, Ministry of Health; UHC, universal health coverage.