Short update on Health Financing in Ghana
Over the past two decades, Ghana has worked towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through targeted reforms of the health care system and financing. This requires improving access to health services and expanding financial protection, especially for poor and...
Social protection policy responses to mitigate COVID‐19 impact in Viet Nam
The Vietnamese government made a rapid move to introduce social protection measures as a response to the COVID‐19 crisis, among others wage subsidies for formal sector workers, cash transfers for poor and near poor households, current social assistance beneficiaries,...
Technical note on Social protection responses to the Covid-19 crisis
This note outlines the importance of Social protection to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 crisis and highlights specific social protection responses relevant to the context of Viet Nam. It aims at assisting national constituents in their efforts to limit the...
The COVID-19 crisis is a good opportunity to align Burkina Faso’s health financing systems: let’s not waste it!
The COVID-19 crisis offers Burkina Faso the opportunity to implement a more coherent approach to health financing. All eyes are currently on the healthcare system because of the COVID-19 crisis, and at the heart of the response to this COVID-19 crisis lies Burkina...
How COVID-19 reshapes priorities for both national resources and development aid in the health sector
"This is a joint blog post, written on behalf of the CSU2030 core team as well as partners engaged in the Sustainable Health Financing Accelerator." The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, reshaping the global health landscape and triggering an economic crisis deeper...
How is COVID-19 redefining priorities for domestic resources and development assistance in the health sector?
The COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world, reshaping the global health landscape and triggering the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression. The pandemic has clearly shown the interdependence of health security and economic security. While health security -...
HDCEO and SPJ Invite you to a Conversation with Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School/JPAL) and Benjamin Olken (MIT/JPAL) on Social Protection in the COVID-19 Era
Social Protection in the COVID-19 Era: What can the evidence tell us? Wednesday June 24, 2020 | 11AM – 12.30PM | Live Stream SPEAKERS - Rema Hanna, Cheah Professor of South East Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Evidence for Policy...
Sharing of the proposal to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Public Health of the note COVID-19 and health financing
National contingency plan for preparedness and response to the coronavirus epidemic in Chad
Chad adopted its contingency plan for preparedness and response to the coronavirus disease epidemic (COVID-19) in March 2020. The aim of the plan is to prevent the introduction and transmission of the disease, to provide adequate care for sick people and thus reduce...