Operational Directives
About The Platform.
This dashboard helps you explore how Africa turns health aspirations into reality through financing, policy reforms, and investments in health systems. You can track where health funding comes from, how resources are allocated, and what these investments achieve, from expanding access to essential services and strengthening health infrastructure to increasing skilled birth attendance and improving health outcomes. By connecting financing with results, the dashboard helps you understand how investments in health contribute to healthier, safer, and more dignified lives.
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Our Mission & Mandates
Drumming Africa towards transformational development for all
We help state and non-state actors navigate Africa’s policy and decision-making processes to ensure they deliver meaningful benefits for citizens. Our work strengthens engagement, accountability, and policy implementation between rights holders and duty bearers, while fostering collaboration, diplomacy, and strategic partnerships across the continent.
African Renaissance policy resources encompass a wide range of materials, that include comprehensive factual data, readily accessible knowledge, research findings, data analyses, dynamic analysis, reports, and expert opinions form the basis for policy decisions grounded in evidence.
The Africa Health Financing Dashboard operates as an interactive analytics platform designed expressly for tracking, visualizing, isolating, and benchmarking domestic health financing data laterally across all 55 African Union Member States.
Formulated by the African Renaissance Trust alongside multilateral continental bodies, this tool facilitates evidence-based engagement, enabling everyone to understand domestic health financing in relation to continental commitments.
Solutions-focused across our impact sectors
To maximise analytical outputs for drafting policy briefs or journalistic reports, researchers are encouraged to utilize the platform's multi-tier analytical tools.
Continental Map Explorer
The map serves as the main entry point to the dashboard. It provides a continental overview of health expenditure per capita and helps users identify regional gaps and differences across Member States.
Explore Interactive MapIsolated Benchmarking Profiles
Allows users to compare a selected Member State against a defined peer group. The profile shows the country’s position within the group using percentile rankings and other comparative measures.
Benchmark PerformancesDirect Comparison Matrices
Supports side-by-side comparison between selected countries. The matrices help users assess differences in health financing indicators, fiscal space, and related performance measures.
Compare CountriesCountry Profiles
Provides a consolidated view of each Member State, bringing together available macroeconomic data, health financing indicators, demographic information, and historical trends at country level.
View Country ProfilesExemplars Database
Shows how African countries have advanced in domestic health financing — who led these efforts, what worked, what challenges emerged, and the lessons that can inspire progress across the continent.
Explore Exemplars DatabaseDeep Dives Database
Summarizes rigorous, peer-reviewed knowledge on African health financing innovations, showcasing the ideas, policies and solutions emerging across the continent to build stronger, more resilient health systems.
Explore Deep DivesTogether, we can build a world based on dignity.
Our Partners make our work possible and share our dedication to tackle the toughest problems in global health financing. This tracking infrastructure manifests from the technical expertise and resource synergies of primary developmental institutions.
African Renaissance Trust
Lead Organization
African Union Commission
Strategic Partner
WHO Africa
Technical Partner
World Bank
Data Partner
Mo Ibrahim Foundation (IIAG)
Data Partner
Policy Alignments & Directives
Database schema methodologies align explicitly against ratified intergovernmental treaties and declarations to ensure absolute relevancy in contemporary legislative dialogue.
- Africa Scorecard on Health Financing
- ALM Declaration on Domestic Resource Mobilisation
- 2025 Joint STC Declaration
- Abuja Declaration (15% target)
- SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing
- WHO Health System Building Blocks
Frequently Asked Questions
Clear answers to the most common queries regarding platform functionality and methodology.
The platform's data is synchronized with primary repositories such as the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database and World Bank WDI on a bi-annual basis, ensuring structural alignment with the latest published multilateral indices.
Yes. All isolated benchmarks, sovereign profiles, and continental aggregate maps can be exported into standard CSV formats or downloaded directly from the Data Download center for offline analysis.
No. The application strictly adheres to the recognized territorial demarcations of the 55 African Union Member States. Unrecognized sub-regions are excluded to maintain absolute alignment with intergovernmental treaty standards.
To ensure fair lateral comparison, domestic fiscal allocations are converted into constant US Dollars (USD) and occasionally measured by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) to mitigate the statistical distortion of localized hyperinflation.
Yes. Out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures, domestic government contributions, and external developmental assistance (DAH) are rigidly isolated within the Sovereign Data Ledgers to highlight true structural dependency.
Researchers and policy makers are encouraged to utilize the 'Report Feedback' terminal at the bottom of the About page. Provide explicit replication steps or cite the disputed benchmark, and our engineering maintainers will audit the query logic.
Report Feedback
Recognized a data discrepancy or encountered a fatal system bug? Use the terminal below to transmit diagnostic intelligence straight to our engineering maintainers.