Strategic Planning Retreat on Health Financing for HSSP III – February 2012
Following the sector-wide Health Sector Strageic Plan III (HSSP III) retreat on strategic priorities, the health financing stakeholders propose to further develop a logframe for key result areas, including resource generation, pooling, purchasing and stewardship...
MoH needs help in development of a Health Financing Strategic Plan – February 2012
Rwanda is currently developing its Health Sector Strategic Plan III(HSSP III) for the period 2013 to 2017. Strategic priorities for the next five years have been identified based on health financing functions and the Rwanda Health Financing Policy. To implement the...
Course on health financing and social health protection – February 2012
A 10-day course on Health Systems Strengthening and Sustainable Financing, organized by the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), GIZ, USAID and the World Bank, and partially funded by P4H, takes place in Kathmandu. The course, attended by sixty participants from...
Development Policy Options meeting in Nay Pyi Taw – Feb 2012
The first Development Policy Options meeting in Nay Pyi Taw (February 2012) unanimously placed poverty reduction as a key objective of Myanmar’s new development agenda, with health and education at the centre of the effort. Further, there was unanimous commitment to...
HFU calls for Organizational Planning Retreat on Health Financing – January 2012
31 January 2012 -Under new leadership, the Health Financing Unit (HFU) in the Ministry of Health (MoH) is in the process of strengthening and developing its core processes and operating functions. In view of its challenging mandate as the implementing arm for the...
A delegation from Chad attends the PMAC conference on universal health coverage
Delegates from the Chad Ministries of Health, Social Affairs, Finance, Planning and Civil Service attend the 2012 Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference is devoted to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and attendance is one of the...
HFWG as platform for HF Policy Implementation – January 2012
The Health Financing Working Group (HFWG) is the main platform for coordination, sharing and discussion of health financing issues between the government, Development Partners and other stakeholders. Established in 2010, it became fully functional in 2011 with GIZ as...
Government officials attend Bangkok P4H event – January 2012
A group of eight government officials, 4 from the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), 3 from the National Planning Commission Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labour, and an academic expert from the Patan Academy of Health Sciences, attend the Prince...
Forming a ‘Partnership for Universal Health Coverage’ – January 2012
Though Indonesia has made significant progress towards UHC/SHP in the last few years, a number of strategic choices still need to be made with regard to the enrolment of the informal sector, the harmonisation of various insurance benefit packages, improving efficiency...
Nepal decides to develop a Health Insurance Policy – January 2012
The Office of the Prime Minister directs Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) to prepare and implement a health insurance policy with a view to providing financial risk protection against ill health.
Drafting vision statement for health financing strategy – January 2012
A WHO mission participates in the Joint Annual Review of the health sector, providing technical support to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), and, along with experts from external development partners (EDPs), World Bank and GIZ, discusses the drafting of...
Developing a long term social health insurance strategy – January 2012
In response to a request from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor, GIZ and WHO prepare a proposal for the development of a long term policy framework for the Mongolian social health insurance system. The proposal recommends a series of...
P4H supports implementation of new CBHI Policy – Nov 2010 to/12/2011
GIZ, ILO and WHO offer technical and financial support during the transition to a new Comunity-based Health Insurance Policy. To make the new system more equitable and sustainable P4H partners worked on the development of a national database (Ubudehe) of the wealth of...
P4H Coordinator attends high level meeting in Lao PDR – December 2011
The Lao PDR’s Ministry of Health (MoH) invites P4H Coordination Desk representatives to attend a Health Financing Task Force (HFTF) meeting and a High Level Health Financing Leadership Seminar (HLHFLS) on December 7th and 8th, partly to explore opportunities for...
High level meeting on health financing strategy – December 2011
Top MoHP officials and P4H members of the health financing technical working group (TWG) meet with the Health Minister on December 6 to discuss broad health financing issues and the health financing strategy development process.