About Us

Health Systems 20/20 is USAID’s flagship project for strengthening health systems worldwide.

By supporting countries to improve their health financing, governance, operations, and institutional capacities, Health Systems 20/20 helps eliminate barriers to the delivery and use of priority health care, such as HIV/AIDS services, tuberculosis treatment, reproductive health services, and maternal and child health care.

Read more in the project brief.

Health Systems 20/20 provides technical assistance in the following areas to strengthen health systems:

• Organizational Capacity Building
• Financial Risk Protection/Health Insurance
• Governance
• Human Resources for Health
• Measuring & Monitoring Health Systems Performance
• Resource Tracking/National Health Accounts
• Performance-based Incentives /
  Pay for Performance
• Costing and Sustainability Planning

The project is a Leader with Associates cooperative agreement awarded to Abt Associates Inc. and its team of partners:

• Aga Khan Foundation
• Bitrán y Asociados
• BRAC University
• Broad Branch Associates
• Deloitte Consulting, LLP
• Forum One Communications
• RTI International
• Tulane University's School of Public Health
• The Training Resources Group

Health Systems 20/20 builds upon three of USAID’s global flagship projects - Partners for Health Reformplus (2000-2006), Partnerships for Health Reform (1995-2000); and Health Financing and Sustainability (1989-1994) – but with additional focus areas in governance and operations, and on approaches that emphasize building local capacity and partnering with other USAID projects and other donors.