Workshop celebrating Universal Health Coverage Day 2023
On 21 December 2023, a workshop celebrating Universal Health Coverage Day 2023 was held at Hotel Cambodiana, Phnom Penh. This workshop aimed to raise awareness of UHC 2030 among key stakeholders in Cambodia.The workshop was held by Khmer HIV/AIDS Activists NGO...
LHSS Webinar: Integrating People and Services into National Social Health Protection, Perspectives from Cambodia, Colombia, and Vietnam
The USAID Local Health Systems Sustainability Project Webinar is going to be held tomorrow, 27 June at 9.00 AM EST to discuss integrating vulnerable populations into national social health protection programs with panelists from Cambodia, Colombia & Vietnam.In...
P4HC+ meeting: Analysis of Financial Risk Protection in Cambodia’s Health System using Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey Data
The P4HC+ community has met on April 28th.GIZ and the General Secretariat of the National Social Protection Council have been collaborating to carry out an updated analysis of health service utilisation and financial protection indicators in Cambodia over the years...
17-21.10.2022 – L4UHC Regional Module in Bangkok
Fruitful week in Bangkok! The Cambodian team focused on the topic of “strengthening the referral system” and acknowledged the importance of a strong primary care for a well performing health system. The next step is to get in touch with stakeholders involved in...
Cambodia 13-14.07.2022- Third Visioning Workshop: Extension of social health protection in pursuit of UHC in Cambodia
This workshop aims to disseminate the main findings of a comprehensive assessment of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Health Insurance scheme and to improve understanding and share a common vision on the extension of social health protection coverage in...
Cambodia – Celebration at the French Embassy of the launching of L4UHC programme in Cambodia
On the occasion of the launching of the L4UHC programme in Cambodia, the French Embassy hosted a cocktail reception at the Residence of the Ambassador of France on the 31st of May. The first in-country workshop has taken place on the 30th and 31st of May. 21...
Health Financing Training in Kep, 29.03-01.04.2022
Fruitful Health Financing Training in Kep with GS-NSPC, WHO, GIZ and P4H!
Social Protection Week
The first Social Protection Week has been a successful event that brought together key stakeholders to chart a way forward in extending social protection in Cambodia.
The complex quest for coordinated health financing in Cambodia
A German-supported coordination mechanism, and one key advisor in particular, indicate a possible way forward with the big ‘4Gs’. ‘Donor harmonisation depends a lot on individuals’, mused a somewhat disenchanted Bart Jacobs, long-time social health...
“Many calculations closer to monitoring UHC in Cambodia”
The third session of " Stata training for monitoring UHC" was conducted by Causal Design for P4H with the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the General Secretariat to the National Social Protection Council (GS NSPC) to expand on learnings from two...
Use of costing results and social accountability in Cambodia
Many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), such as Cambodia, have undertaken significant reforms in the last decade to strengthen their health care systems to improve equity and accelerate progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In this context, health...
Toward strategic purchasing – Management of multiple schemes and purchasing decisions by the Cambodian National Social Security Fund
The Cambodian National Social Security Fund (NSSF) was established in 2008 based on the provisions of the Social Security Law adopted by the National Assembly in 2002. While the health insurance branch of the fund initially covered mainly benefits for employees in the...
Toward Strategic Purchasing: Management of Multiple Schemes and Purchasing Decisions by the Cambodian National Social Security Fund
Disclaimer: This study is published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, which is a WHO Collaborating Centre; it is not a publication of the World Health Organization. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit...
The Phnom Penh Post: Bima, Smart Axiata announce expanded insurance coverage
The Phnom Penh Post, 25 February 2020: " MILVIK (Cambodia) Micro Insurance Plc, the Kingdom’s leading provider of mobile-delivered health insurance, and Smart Axiata Co Ltd, its leading mobile telecommunications operator, have announced an upgrade to the Smart Life...
“NSSF urged to finish new protection study”
Khmer Times, 16 January 2020: " As the deadline to expand the Kingdom’s social nettings programme is set for this year, Labour Minister Ith Samheng is urging NSSF officials to finish their study so protection can also be provided to public officials, former civil...