Building Resilient Health Financing in the Wake of COVID-19: Case Studies of subnational health budgeting in Kenya

In 2020, the Covid-19 global pandemic illustrated like nothing else in recent history the importance of building resilient health systems. It also demonstrated the urgent need for sustainable health financing to develop and maintain those systems, and demonstrated the strong need for domestic financing to support a timely scale-up that is up to the task during a health crisis.

This report uses two counties in Kenya as cases by which to examine the challenges and best practices in increasing resource allocation for health at the subnational level.