ToR SNFS validation workshop October 2018 BFA
General objective The general objective of this workshop is to validate the draft versions of the two documents (SNFS and PAO). Specific objectives Present draft versions of both documents to workshop participants, Gather improvement contributions from participants,...
Plan d’opérationnalisation de la SNFS au Buirkina Faso 2018-2020
This strategy document is a tool for guiding health financing initiatives to achieve universal health coverage, and provides an appropriate framework for coordinating the actions of the various players involved in health financing. As part of the operationalization of...
Summary report of the SNFS 2018 BFA editorial workshops.
A team made up of resource persons from the Ministry of Health and other players in the health sector has been set up to review the SNFS, taking into account the amendments made by the Council of Ministers and the directions given by the Minister of Health, but above...
SNFS_version_fin_Sept_2018_final_editorial_committee_BFA
This is the final version of the SNFS submitted by the drafting group to the cabinet of the Ministry of Health. It will be shared ahead of a validation workshop scheduled for October 9.
SNFS validation workshop at BFA
After 4 years of work, the National Health Financing Strategy will again be submitted for technical approval to the Ministry of Health, which will invite representatives from related departments. The version that will be proposed is the result of a working group that...
Coherent health financing for the COVID-19 response: a perspective from the Philippines
MAKING PURCHASING FIT FOR PURPOSE In the Philippines, the COVID-19 response has called for rapid adaptation of purchasing arrangements. In early 2019, the Philippines passed a Universal Health Care (UHC) Law that envisions the national health insurance agency...

Burkina Faso’s SNFS-CSU validated at second Steering Committee meeting
The second steering committee for the development of the national health financing strategy was held today, Tuesday, October 10, 2017, in the PADS meeting room in Ouagadougou. The Committee, chaired by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, drew its members...

Validación del SNFS-CSU de Burkina Faso en la segunda reunión del Comité Directivo
El segundo comité directivo para el desarrollo de la estrategia nacional de financiación sanitaria se ha celebrado hoy, martes 10 de octubre de 2017, en la sala de reuniones del PADS en Uagadugú. El Comité, presidido por el Secretario General del Ministerio de...
Burkina Faso: free healthcare for pregnant women and children under 5 to be extended to community level
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Official launch of GFF in Burkina Faso (and all start-up documents)
Official launch of the GFF: see pp2 & 3 of the Ministry of Health newsletter "The mission of the secretariat of the Global Financing Mechanism (GFF), in Burkina from February 19 to 22 led to a joint statement by the ministries in charge of Finance and Health. The...

WHO/P4H regional health financing policy advisor arrives – November 2012
As part of the WHO contribution to the P4H joint support plans in Benin, Burkina and Mali, an international adviser on health financing policy is deployed in Ouagadougou (based in WHO-IST Intercountry Support Team). The WHO adviser will help build national capacity in...

Creation of the Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Maladie Universelle (National Universal Health Insurance Fund)
On Thursday, March 1, 2018 a Council of Ministers was held in Ouagadougou in ordinary session under the chairmanship of His Excellency Mr. Roch Marc Christian KABORE, President of Faso, President of the Council of Ministers. A decree creating a public social welfare...