Following last year’s participation in the P4H Leadership for UHC (L4UHC) program in Africa, the Zambian Ministry of Health – together with the L4UHC faculty – organized a High Level Policy Dialogue from 17-19 Feb 2016, in Chisamba,
to create a high-level and multi-sectorial coalition for UHC with a strong focus on the development of the new Health Financing Strategy and to move the Social Health Insurance agenda forward.
Concept note: 2015_12_12_Zambia_CNforHLPD-002
List of participants: 2016_02_19_L4UHC_participants_list
Objectives of the leadership event:
Participants
- Generate a deep and common understanding of the challenges of the UHC reform processes in Zambia
- Engage in high level dialogues and build consensus on the required efforts to transform policies to effective actions
- Develop stronger commitment and design collective interventions to address identified challenges
- Deepen their understanding of leadership concepts, tools and skills to effectively and actively participate to the UHC / health sector reform.
Highlights of the event:
– Zambia UHC Statement of Intent: (DRAFT) 2016_02_19_Zambia_UHC_DRAFT_Statement_of_Intent
– Proposed key areas to move UHC reform agenda forward: 2016_02_19_L4UHC_Zambia_key_recommendations_for_UHC agenda
– Summaries of group discussion on strategising for UHC, inter-sectoral collaboration, social health insurance and on stakeholders and potential sources of conflict: 2016_02_19_group_discussion_summaries
– Leadership inputs: to follow
