To facilitate the drafting and finalization of the Universal Health Coverage Strategy paper, a Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Health Financing ICC was created in May 2013.
Objectives and expected deliverables (for the period Jul – Nov 2013)
– Define the sequential 5 year targets for increasing services and population covered, plus reducing direct payments leading to Universal Coverage,
– Elaborate the targets the Country needs to work towards relating to attaining the objectives of Universal Coverage, focusing on
- Costing 5 year targets, to define the required resources
- Elaborating efficiency and equity objectives to be worked towards
– Elaborate the targets for the different Health Financing functions that institutional arrangements need to attain, relating to revenue generation, risk pooling and purchasing of services
– Carry out institutional review, to propose different institutional arrangements that are feasible for the medium, and long term guided by the need to attain the above-mentioned functions
– Assess the different sources of financing in terms of potential resources they can generate based on the overall objectives of resource adequacy, efficiency and equity, and define resource mobilization strategies to maximize the mobilization of the stated resources
