It will spend an extra 200 billion rupees this year on the schools, roads, power plants and other development priorities set out in its latest five-year plan.
Finally, the study of the external environment needs to keep in track with development priorities set for the Region of Ionian Islands for the time span 2007 2013, prolonged also in the period 2014 2020.
As well, few organizations have utilized this information to guide the development of explicit priority setting processes.
In light of this, as well as the other factors described above there is an urgent need for the development of research priority setting processes for HPSR that reflect national research needs but also inform global agendas.
Indeed there are several current developments for which sound priority setting processes are required.
Other forms of guidance are available, for example those that were developed for specific health research priority setting situations, such as for Health Technology Assessments [ 39], applied health services research [ 40], guideline development [ 41], and patient/caregiver priority setting partnerships [ 42].
Preliminary findings were presented and discussed at two national workshops that were co-organized by INASA and the Council on Health Research for Development COHREDD) to inform the main stakeholders of research in Guinea Bissau about NHRS development and prepare for research priority setting.
This organizational change has, at a minimum, hampered the development of a stable system of priority setting.
Specifically, we recommend FMNCH stakeholder's engagement in the priority setting process, training and availing the technical and supervisory support to priority setting teams, improvement in the use of FMNCH information and planning tools; and development of an efficient and fair priority setting process/framework.
