Concurrently with the latter phase of the HEPCAPS 2 project, Professor Berman launched the Resource Tracking and Management (RTM) project in India and Ethiopia with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project aimed at enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and equity in primary care delivery in Ethiopia and India by developing and regularly applying a financial resource tracking and management (RTM) framework.
The RTM framework provides an end-to-end health financing analysis by tracking resources, identifying bottlenecks, and applying policy solutions along 5 key steps of the flow of funds for health programs linked to key objectives. “Resources”include financing as well as physical inputs, such as drugs, supplies, and human resources.
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The RTM framework (Figure 1):