Public Expenditure Tracking for Health (PET-Health)
Start: Nov 9, 2026
End: Nov 14, 2026
Venue: Mombasa, Kenya
Duration: 1 week
Statement of Need
Public expenditure tracking is a critical tool for improving accountability, transparency, and efficiency in health financing systems. In many health systems, resources allocated to the health sector do not always translate into timely, adequate, and quality service delivery due to leakages, inefficiencies, delays, and misallocation of funds.
Who Attends
- Understand concepts of public financial management (PFM) in the healthsector.
- Explain how health budgets are formulated, approved, disbursed, andexecuted.
- Apply Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) methodologies inhealth systems.
- Analyze budget allocation, release, and absorption rates in the healthsector.
- Identify inefficiencies, leakages, and delays in health financing flows.
- Map financial flows from central government to counties, facilities, andprogrammes.
- Assess equity, efficiency, and transparency in health spending.
- Use data to inform policy decisions and improve health resourceallocation.
- Develop expenditure tracking reports for advocacy and decision-making.
How participants will benefit
- Foundations of Public Expenditure Management in Health
- Expenditure Tracking Tools and Budget Analysis Methods
- Budget Allocation, Absorption Rates and Efficiency Analysis
- Data Analysis and Interpretation in PETS
- Monitoring Expenditure Flows, Leakages and Misallocation
- Accountability, Reporting and Policy Use
- Budget Performance, Reporting and Decision-Making
Topics Include
- Understand health financing systems and budget flows
- Gain practical skills in expenditure tracking
- Identify inefficiencies in health resource allocation
- Produce expenditure tracking reports
- Strengthening capacity for accountability and governance in health financing
- Apply PETS tools in their institutions
Fees
USD 1,050 per participant