National Health Insurance Scheme – progress update – April 2011
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) bill has been referred back to cabinet by the Solicitor General in view of changes introduced into the document without being endorsed by cabinet. The NHIS Task Force is in the process of preparing a cabinet paper, which...
WB tables policy note on health financing – April 2011
The World Bank (WB) tabled a Health Financing Policy Note as input to the Tanzania strategy process and to get the ball rolling on the high-level multi-stakeholder process. As requested by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW), and endorsed by the local...
Planning for a kick-off event for a health financing strategy
Beginning of April 2011, the P4H Coordination Desk received information from GIZ Bangladesh that the MoHFW together with WB, SIDA, EU and GDC (GIZ, KfW) have resumed the planning process for the earlier announced health financing workshop. Workshop date shifted to...
Lancement officiel de l’assurance maladie obligatoire (AMO) – Mars 2011
A mandatory health insurance scheme, Assurance Maladie Obligatoire (AMO) is formally launched by the President of the Republic of Mali. Unfortunately, some parts of Mali civil society movements campaign against the scheme, and force the government to modify some of...
Technical Working Group forms – March 2011
External development partners (EDPs) put together a Technical Working Group (TWG) on Health Care Financing to support the government, and in particular the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP). The TWG comprises members from various EDPs supporting the government...
Workshop results in agreement on consolidating SHP programmes – March 2011
A joint Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) and external development partners (EDP) workshop takes place, focused on identifying ways to improve the health financing system and social health protection (SHP). Agreement is reached on consolidating existing SHP...
MoH calls for P4H support on community-based health insurance – February 2011
P4H network partner GIZ convenes a kick-off meeting for all the P4H in-country organizations, including the ILO, SDC and WHO, who informally agree to collaborate in supporting universal health coverage and social health protection activities, and to actively exchange...
Adoption of the national plan to extend social protection – January 2011
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P4H accepts MoHSW request, works on details – January 2011
P4H partners at the global level work on the identification, confirmation and commitment of complementary resources to support Tanzania’s health financing strategy development process. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) revised its request for support,...
MoHSW considers P4H involvement – December 2010
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) issued a request to the P4H network to explore the possibility of P4H supporting Tanzania’s health financing strategy process. The World Bank (WB) contract with the consulting firm supporting the strategy process...
Ugandan State Minister of Health at UHC conference in Berlin – November 2010
The Ugandan Minister of State for Health, Dr. Richard Nduhuura, participated in a ministerial conference on health financing and universal coverage, as well as attending the P4H Open Forum in November 2010 in Berlin. Dr. Nduhuura expressed his appreciation for the...
National consultation workshop on the implementation of the national health risk coverage strategy – October 2010
A national consultation workshop on the implementation of the national strategy is taking place in Saly from October 26 to 28, 2010.
Initiation of health financing strategy process -/10/2010
In response to the recommendations of the Joint Review Mission (JRM), confirmed by the International Health Partnership (IHP) JANS assessment and based on the health financing review, the Ministry of Health Planning Department (MoHPD) initiated the health financing...
P4H and the health financing inter-agency committee – October 2010
P4H partners are now represented and active in the health financing inter-agency committee (ICC), formerly known as the Health Financing Task Group, which is working on the health financing agenda and particularly on the implementation of the health care financing...
The idea of a health financing strategy has been taken up
The P4H CD has been informed that 'following discussions between MoH, World Bank, Germany (GTZ) and P4H Coordination Desk in the Maldives', the development of a Health Care Financing Strategy is now part of the Government of Bangladesh's draft Health Population and...