The overall goal of SUPPORT is to explore how decision-making processes for health systems strengthening and universal health coverage (UHC) can be made more inclusive, responsive and accountable. The study aims at generating insights that can help policymakers and stakeholders implement inclusive and accountable evidence based decision-making processes for health systems strengthening and UHC. Specifically, the study will i) Identify factors affecting the participation and agency of civil society during national and subnational evidence-informed health policy processes ii) Explore how policymakers in Ghana and Kenya engage with, value and use different types of evidence, particularly qualitative evidence on stakeholder views and experiences, when making health systems decisions on service delivery reforms and iii) Develop new tools to support inclusive and accountable health systems decisions at national and subnational levels. The project is led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), the School of Public Health at the University of Ghana, the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust), and the Global Health Politics Group at the University of Oslo and funded by the Research Council of Norway
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