While the P4H network’s focus is mainly on health financing policy and strategy for UHC/SHP and coordination of development cooperation, the Joint Learning Network (JLN) provides a platform for more technical level practitioner-to-practitioner and South-South learning.
The approaches and added value of both networks complement each other. There is also an overlap in various countries both networks are working with, e.g. Indonesia, India, Mali, Nigeria, Kenya, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Zambia, Nepal and Burkina Faso.
The recent discussions between JLN core team members and the P4H CD are summerised below by Somil Nagpal :
– JLN being an ongoing platform for engagement of the P4H Leadership for UHC course participants from Africa
– Potential co-hosting of the next course with WB-LLI and P4H joining hands with JLN, in Asia (they do use several P2P tools in their leadership course- though this does not yet fit in any existing JLN technical initiative, which also keeps the P4H piece distinct from JLN but with a lot of synergy in participants and follow-up activities)
– Potential involvement of P4H coordinators in JLN country core groups for common coordination of activities (and avoiding any duplication), in countries where they are very deeply engaged
– On the sidelines of the event, the Nigeria team also expressed keen interest and discussed a potential sub-national joint learning platform on the lines of the India Forum, which will be further explored when the TTL (Karima Saleh) is next on mission in early May.
– Overall, wider engagement of stakeholders in the JLN CCG as a coordination mechanism which maybe useful beyond JLN, was also discussed, and also noted for action in the near future by the MOH representative from Nigeria.
