ILO Health Protection Platform
Short description The ILO Health Protection section of the ILO Social Protection provides information on the different ILO dimensions of access to health care (legal coverage, availability, affordability/financial protection). Global inequities in access to health...
UNDG Asia-Pacific Social Protection Issues Brief
Short description This tool provides United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) in Asia and the Pacific region and the United Nations Development Group Asia-Pacific with (i) a common UN position on social (health) protection; (ii) a brief overview of social (health)...
ILO/UNICEF costing and assessment tools
Short description The costing tools and assessment protocols have been developed and tested under the framework of the Social Protection Floor Initiative since 2010. Purpose The tools help users estimate the present and future cost of implementing a set of social...
Actuarial Practice in Social Security
Short description Presents technical material on valuation covering a wide-range of risks including old age, survivors, disability, sickness, maternity, employment injury, and unemployment. Purpose Discusses the valuation of pensions, short-term cash benefits like...
Financing Social Protection
Short description Offers a comprehensive overview of financing options and provides a thorough analysis of their respective advantages and disadvantages as well as their financial and economic implications. Purpose Presents a "methodological toolbox" from which social...
Social Budgeting
Short description Provides guidance for designing a social accounting system. Purpose Shows how the relationships between the economy and the social protection system can be translated into a quantitative model which permits projections and simulations to be carried...
Health Insurance Bill presented to Parliament of Zambia last Friday
Health Minister of Zambia Chitalu Chilufya presented The Health Insurance Bill to Parliament. The first reading took place on Friday 8th of December and the bill was deferred to the Committee on Health, Community Development and Social Services. Second and third...
JANV 17 PTF meeting on CSU, external health financing and technical assistance needs in Guinea
Meeting of MOH and development partners at WHO Guinea premises organised by P4H and the UHC Partnership Results: consensus on several ways of improving governance, ensuring leadership by the government, and mechanisms for joint funding that ensure government...