Director General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Samuel Kaba has assured Health Development Partners of the Service’s transition to an era of accountability and efficiency.
According the Director General, the transition was needed to rekindle the trust and confidence that existed between the Service and Health Development Partners(HDPs)
Dr. Kaba gave the assurance at a strategic Co-ordination meeting with HDPs on Monday (November 3, 2025).
“Ghana Health Service is Transitioning into a new era of accountability efficiency and systemic leadership and development architecture must revolve around it”, Dr. Kaba emphasized.
The Director General however bemoaned some challenges in the development partnership sector which includes movement of GHS led programs to direct partner implementation, increased earmark funding instead of pool or budget support funding.
The rest are growing reliance on third party implementers, fragmented support structured versus unified Health System structures as well as ownership and sustainability gaps.
These challenges according the Director General must be fixed to ensure a strengthened Coordination and alignment of partner support to GHS priorities.
Director General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Samuel Kaba addressing HDPs
“We must return to a model where development assistance compliments and strengthens, not creating silos or parallel structures.
Our stands are increasingly stretched by volumes of trainings and partners’ activities have reached levels which compromise quality health service delivery”, the Director General revealed.
He later cited instances where HDPs write to request and nominate a particular group of officers to repeatedly attend workshops and conferences adding that these create gaps for the GHS.
“Capacity building is important but it has to be planned in a coordinated manner rather than seeking interest of a particular staff or some group of people”, he told the HDPs.
He therefore called for the need for an equitable staff involvement for an enhanced productivity outcomes whilst also calling for an improved alignment and harmonization.
The Director General later assured the HDPs of a quarterly partner roundtable engagement for a shared reporting and accountability framework.
“We must harmonize work plan and schedules, joint planning, alliances on national priorities”. Kaba noted.
The Meeting saw two presentations on Health Partners ‘ Support Contributions to GHS and Overview of Health Partners Contributions to GHS and operational concerns.
Source:www.senaradioonline.com
