Financing for NCDs and Mental Health: Making the money work better

This policy brief reviews the options for governments to improve and get better value for money in their spending on NCDs and mental health. It also identifies options for ministries of health to use discretionary funds to support increased effective coverage of NCD and mental health interventions. This brief complements another policy brief, Financing for NCDs and mental health: where will the money come from?, that identifies mechanisms for increasing financing for these conditions. These recommendations emerged from the International Dialogue on Sustainable Financing for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (June 2024) and related technical background papers