P4H mission 1-19 July 2013: CD summary report
The MoH Uganda, through the WR Uganda, requested the P4H network to support the finalisation of their health financing strategy (HFS). The invitation was well recieved, in particular after a period of reduced interactions with the P4H network in 2012 mainly due to...
World Bank Technical Review Mission 22-25 July 2013
The World Bank informs the MoH that a technical mission will be visiting Kenya during July 22-25, 2013. WB: "The proposed mission will focus on key health financing reforms in the light of the recent policies on abolition of user fee and free maternity care, and...
Circulation of a first progress document for a healthcare financing policy – July 2013
The Ministries of Health, Humanitarian Action, Solidarity and the Elderly, and Women, Child and Family Promotion have drawn up a ten-year health development plan. The Ministries and their Technical and Financial Partners agreed that a certain number of themes should...
First info about new request for UHC analysis and options -/07/2013
The MOH is energetically taking forward the UHC agenda in Kenya - there is some new impetus driven by the new Cabinet Secretary and his team. So far, a Technical Working Group has been constituted to define a comprehensive UHC strategy for the Country. The TWG has...
Fact finding mission for supporting the creation of a new social health protection institution
During the first week of July, GIZ P4H Sector Project representatives visited Cambodia for a week to respond to a request by the Ministry of Health to develop the National Social Health Protection Fund. This fund will be a semi-autonomous institute, termed Public...
HF Team working on an advanced HFS draft – July 2013
Some members of the Uganda HF Team comprising the MoH team (Francis Runumi, Robert Basaza, Tom Aliti), the Senior Presidential Advisor HE Speciosa Kazibwe, Peter Okewero (WB), Juliet Bataringaya (WHO), Olivia Nieveras (GIZ consultant), Paranie Navaratnasamy (USAID)...
Stakeholder HFS workshop, 3-4 July 2013 in Kampala
The MoH invited 100+ stakeholders, mainly from the health sector, for a 2-day workshop in preparation of a health financing strategy (HFS). The new Minister of Health (HE Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda) expressed his commitment to UHC, the need for effective, efficient and...
First meeting of the “health financing contact group” since 2011
Following inactivity during a prolonged period for a variety of reasons the contact group for health financing was revived on the 3rd of July 2013. The meeting was well attended by a variety of representatives. Because considerable time had elapsed since the last such...
Partnership for UHC – some suggestions
Mail from P4H CD on 26 June 2013: Please find attached a small feedback and some suggestions regarding the 'Partnership for UHC' group. It would be great if you could discuss and consider some of them during your next meeting. Btw. we're almost done with the P4H...
The World Bank circulates its concept note paper about its support to the HF reform in Colombia – June 2013
The development objective of this Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS) is to contribute to strengthen the Colombian central Government’s institutional capacity to exercise stewardship over the National Health Insurance System (NHIS) to foster better health outcomes,...
GIZ scoping mission – June 2013
The mission was carried out by Viktoria Rabovskaja upon request of the GIZ Regional Health Program in Central Asia to analyze options for further engagement regarding SHP/UHC reforms in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan through collaboration with the German P4H Sector...
2010_03_P4H_Cambodia_Action_Plan2010.pdf
MOU_P4HCambodia.pdf
Discussions of IP – HFRG meeting on 23/06/2013 [POSTPONED!]
Below is the draft Implementation Plan of the Health Care Financing Strategy that would be the subject of discussions on the 23 June HFRTG meeting. [Meeting has been postponed to September!]
WHO and GIZ support District Health Assessment – June 2013
Please find below the final report of a District Health Assessment jointly undertaken by the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) and the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), supported by GIZ and WHO in Nepal: District Health Assessment: To Guide the Design of...