Malawi health Sector resource mapping round 5 2017 - 2020

The Government of Malawi (GoM) aims to have the highest possible level of health and quality of life for its citizens. The provision of equitable and quality healthcare is largely dependent on the availability of adequate resources. However, planning and coordination of health activities have been challenging in the country, considering that there is substantial off-budget donor funding. According to resource mapping (RM) projections, in fiscal year (FY) 2017/18, 75 percent of funding for the health sector came from 189 external donors, each with separate budgets, priorities, decision-making processes and implementers; the GoM finances the remaining 25 percent of the health sector.

To address these challenges, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has adopted an annual RM exercise to track health sector resources and to inform planning and budgeting decisions both for the MOH and its development partners  (DPs). Health sector RM provides detailed, forward-looking budget data, complementing other surveys like the National Health Accounts (NHA) and the National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) that collect historical expenditure data. This report presents the key findings of RM Round 5, which includes health sector budget data collected for FY 2017/18 through FY 2019/20.