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.
Initial joint P4H mission – November 2011
A joint P4H scoping mission comprising WHO, France, Switzerland and the P4H Coordination Desk runs from 21 to 25 November 2011. The mission notes that among Mali's strengths in moving towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) are strong political backing, and an...
Health financing background paper completed – November 2011
WHO contributes a background paper providing a situation analysis of the health financing system in Nepal to the Technical Working Group (TWG), incorporating inputs from P4H network partners and other relevant stakeholders (see report for details)....
Health Financing System Analysis Produced – November 2011
The first draft of the health financing system analysis was produced, supported by P4H, and further discussions are planned for January 2012, which are expected to provide strategic inputs and recommendations for the transition to universal coverage and Social Health...
Update on health financing issues in Kenya – November 2011
After completing the drafting of the Health Financing Strategy in early 2011, discussions at national level and in the National Social and Economic Forum focused on the organizational landscape of future health care financing. Several recent developments may influence...
Review of a health insurance pilot proposal.
The Health Economics Unit of the MoHFW, in collaboration with KfW, has designed a health insurance pilot intervention to tackle the high OOP spending and other health system issues. The Secretary of health has asked the (P4H) network partners to review the current...
Vision, goals and objectives of the new health financing strategy
The MoHFW Health Economics Unit (HEU) has prepared a first draft of the vision, goals and objectives of the health financing strategy for further discussion. Vision, Goal & objectives of HCF Strategy_25Oct2011