Development Policy Options meeting in Nay Pyi Taw – Feb 2012
The first Development Policy Options meeting in Nay Pyi Taw (February 2012) unanimously placed poverty reduction as a key objective of Myanmar’s new development agenda, with health and education at the centre of the effort. Further, there was unanimous commitment to...
HFU calls for Organizational Planning Retreat on Health Financing – January 2012
31 January 2012 -Under new leadership, the Health Financing Unit (HFU) in the Ministry of Health (MoH) is in the process of strengthening and developing its core processes and operating functions. In view of its challenging mandate as the implementing arm for the...
A delegation from Chad attends the PMAC conference on universal health coverage
Delegates from the Chad Ministries of Health, Social Affairs, Finance, Planning and Civil Service attend the 2012 Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference is devoted to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and attendance is one of the...
HFWG as platform for HF Policy Implementation – January 2012
The Health Financing Working Group (HFWG) is the main platform for coordination, sharing and discussion of health financing issues between the government, Development Partners and other stakeholders. Established in 2010, it became fully functional in 2011 with GIZ as...
Government officials attend Bangkok P4H event – January 2012
A group of eight government officials, 4 from the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), 3 from the National Planning Commission Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labour, and an academic expert from the Patan Academy of Health Sciences, attend the Prince...
Forming a ‘Partnership for Universal Health Coverage’ – January 2012
Though Indonesia has made significant progress towards UHC/SHP in the last few years, a number of strategic choices still need to be made with regard to the enrolment of the informal sector, the harmonisation of various insurance benefit packages, improving efficiency...
Drafting vision statement for health financing strategy – January 2012
A WHO mission participates in the Joint Annual Review of the health sector, providing technical support to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), and, along with experts from external development partners (EDPs), World Bank and GIZ, discusses the drafting of...
Nepal decides to develop a Health Insurance Policy – January 2012
The Office of the Prime Minister directs Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) to prepare and implement a health insurance policy with a view to providing financial risk protection against ill health.
Developing a long term social health insurance strategy – January 2012
In response to a request from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor, GIZ and WHO prepare a proposal for the development of a long term policy framework for the Mongolian social health insurance system. The proposal recommends a series of...
P4H supports implementation of new CBHI Policy – Nov 2010 to/12/2011
GIZ, ILO and WHO offer technical and financial support during the transition to a new Comunity-based Health Insurance Policy. To make the new system more equitable and sustainable P4H partners worked on the development of a national database (Ubudehe) of the wealth of...
P4H Coordinator attends high level meeting in Lao PDR – December 2011
The Lao PDR’s Ministry of Health (MoH) invites P4H Coordination Desk representatives to attend a Health Financing Task Force (HFTF) meeting and a High Level Health Financing Leadership Seminar (HLHFLS) on December 7th and 8th, partly to explore opportunities for...
High level meeting on health financing strategy – December 2011
Top MoHP officials and P4H members of the health financing technical working group (TWG) meet with the Health Minister on December 6 to discuss broad health financing issues and the health financing strategy development process.
Engaging with P4H – December 2011
Since its transition to democracy in 1999, Indonesia has made significant progress in introducing democratic institutions and practices and in moving towards a market economy. As part of this process, the government has begun the substantial reform of the National...
Health Financing Resource Group (HFRG) Meeting – Nov 2012
The HFRG meeting was chaired by the Secretary of health. Presentation of the health care financing strategy workshop and roadmap by the Joint Chief of the HEU, and agreement on the next steps, e.g. to hire a lead consultant to provide support to the the working...
Workshop on CBHI and HEF in Cambodia – November 2011
A joint AFD/GIZ workshop on social health protection for the poor and near-poor focused on the implementation of Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) and Health Equity Funds (HEF) in the same geographic areas takes place in Phnom Penh.