Friends of the Lusaka Agenda

2025’s shock waves in global health financing are prompting a reset in how health services are financed globally. In this rapidly changing context, the Lusaka Agenda provides an important framework and jumping off point for strategic changes in health financing, toward a vision of domestically-financed health systems and universal health coverage that leave no-one behind.

As countries, communities and health organizations grapple with seismic health financing and service delivery disruptions, the UK FCDO, the Malawi Ministry of Health and Gem Hub Initiative (Nigeria) are in 2025 hosting quarterly convenings of Friends of the Lusaka Agenda to sustain an open and inclusive forum for dialogue on advancing  the Lusaka Agenda, even as work intensifies to use it as a springboard for more substantive reform of the global health architecture. Friends membership is drawn from, and beyond, the Lusaka Agenda Working Group, which sunset in June 2024.

Check back to this page during the course of the year for updates about actions Friends are taking to advance the Lusaka Agenda’s key shifts, on the path to domestically-financed health systems and universal health coverage that leave no-one behind.