Burkina Faso’s CNAMU and Togo’s INAM draw inspiration from best practice
Drawing inspiration from the Togolese health insurance model was the main objective of a mission from Burkina-Faso's Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie Universelle (CNAMU), which visited in Togo in December 2020. The CNAMU delegation came to learn from...
Mozambique to strengthen Community Health
The Mozambican Ministry of Health has presented the draft of the Community Health strategy to development partners. Mozambique counts now with 6.790 Community Health workers, called APE (Agentes Polivalentes Elementares), who perform essential preventive health work...
Burkina Faso: General Policy Statement by the Prime Minister
The Burkinabe Prime Minister's general policy statement was presented to the elected representatives of the Fourth Republic. It focused on four (4) main themes: : 1-consolidate peace, security, social cohesion and promote national reconciliation; 2- deepen...
Despite Pandemic, Health Budget Sees Little Real Increase – Water and sanitation outlays included in the health budget
"Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a new healthcare scheme--the Pradhan Mantri Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana--with a Rs 64,180-crore ($8.7 billion) outlay. The Centre's allocation to the health ministry for 2020-21 was Rs 67,112 crore ($9.18...
Budget 2021: Allocation to Healthcare more than doubles after Pandemic
"India will more than double its spending on healthcare in the next fiscal year as it aims to boost the sector crippled by the coronavirus pandemic". Read more...
Conducting a joint field mission with Chad’s national partners
From February 29 to March 05, 2020, a delegation led by the Deputy Coordinator of CIC-SNCSU, composed of various executives from the Cellule Interministérielle de Coordination de la Stratégie Nationale de la Couverture Santé Universelle (CIC-SNCSU), the Ministry...
Organization of a training and information workshop for CSU actors in Chad
The Chadian Ministry of Public Health, in collaboration with the Cellule Interministérielle de Coordination de la Couverture Santé Universelle (CSU) in Chad, and in partnership with the P4H network, Swiss Cooperation and GIZ, organized an information and training...
Equity Budgeting Tool_Evaluating the place of Gender in Health budget planning
An EBT analysis was performed in 2019 in order to assess to what extent Gender is considered in the different stages of budget planning at the Ministry of Health. This report focuses on the analysis of budgetary equity in Cameroon. It is an application of...
Disminución del presupuesto asignado al Ministerio de Sanidad en 2021
El presupuesto asignado al Ministerio de Sanidad pasará de 213.651 millones de FCFA a 197.121 millones de FCFA en 2021, de los cuales 84.197 millones se dedicarán a actividades operativas y 112.924 millones a inversiones del presupuesto público. Los...
Decrease in the budget allocated to the Ministry of Health in 2021
The budget allocated to the Ministry of Health will increase from 213.651 billion Fcfa to 197.121 billion Fcfa in 2021, of which 84.197 billion will be dedicated to operational activities and 112.924 billion to public budget investment. The preferred...
CSU Cameroon: 1st phase from 2021
Phase 1: 2021 to 2025 Coverage: children aged 0 to 5, pregnant women, patients covered by public health programs (tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, or diabetes etc.....); care and services package comprising 185 interventions and 101 sub-interventions...
N$72.8 billion budget for 2020/21 financial year announced
The Minister of Finance, Iipumbu Shiimi on Wednesday tabled the national budget for the financial year 2020/21 totalling N$72.8 billion from N$66.5 billion budgeted in the 2019/20 financial year. Shiimi in a budget statement said the single-year budget reflects the...
Viet Nam – Social dialogue with employer representatives on the health insurance policy reforms proposed for the amendment of the Health Insurance Law
Representatives of business associations and enterprises met on 19th January 2021 to discuss the social health insurance policy options proposed by the Ministry of Health in view of the revision of the Law. The workshop was organized through the partnership between...
253 billion CFA francs for economic and social development: the World Bank and Burkina Faso sign an agreement
Signing of three financing agreements on Thursday January 21 in Ouagadougou. Worth a total of 460 million USD, or around 253 billion CFA francs, this grant will be used to implement the emergency project for territorial development and resilience. project to...
New members of the Burkinabe Executive: a member of the L4UHC program joins the government
" A new government to lead the actions of the President of Faso ". The Christophe DABIRE II government held its very first cabinet meeting in Ouagadougou on Monday January 11. While a number of portfolios have kept their ministers, twelve personalities have...