ILO Health Protection Platform
Short description The ILO Health Protection section of the ILO Social Protection provides information on the different ILO dimensions of access to health care (legal coverage, availability, affordability/financial protection). Global inequities in access to health...
UNDG Asia-Pacific Social Protection Issues Brief
Short description This tool provides United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) in Asia and the Pacific region and the United Nations Development Group Asia-Pacific with (i) a common UN position on social (health) protection; (ii) a brief overview of social (health)...
ILO/UNICEF costing and assessment tools
Short description The costing tools and assessment protocols have been developed and tested under the framework of the Social Protection Floor Initiative since 2010. Purpose The tools help users estimate the present and future cost of implementing a set of social...
Actuarial Practice in Social Security
Short description Presents technical material on valuation covering a wide-range of risks including old age, survivors, disability, sickness, maternity, employment injury, and unemployment. Purpose Discusses the valuation of pensions, short-term cash benefits like...
Social Budgeting
Short description Provides guidance for designing a social accounting system. Purpose Shows how the relationships between the economy and the social protection system can be translated into a quantitative model which permits projections and simulations to be carried...
Financing Social Protection
Short description Offers a comprehensive overview of financing options and provides a thorough analysis of their respective advantages and disadvantages as well as their financial and economic implications. Purpose Presents a "methodological toolbox" from which social...
Health Insurance Bill presented to Parliament of Zambia last Friday
Health Minister of Zambia Chitalu Chilufya presented The Health Insurance Bill to Parliament. The first reading took place on Friday 8th of December and the bill was deferred to the Committee on Health, Community Development and Social Services. Second and third...
International Forum in Astana: Invest in Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Event Time : 30 Nov 2017 8:00 am to 30 Nov 2017 4:00 pmTimezone: UTC+05:00Event is Conference : No
International Forum: Invest in Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Forum "Investments in Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan" November 30 Forum "Investments in Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan" was held with the participation of Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yerbolat Dosayev, Minister of...
Khmer Times – NSSF opens to small firms
Khmer Times, November 7, 2017: "Firms employing as few as one member of staff have been urged to register with the National Social Security Fund to obtain benefits for their workers. NSSF director Ouk Samvithya last week said companies of all sizes would now be...
The power of a systemic approach towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nepal
The team of Nepalese leaders participating in the L4UHC programme tackled one of the country’s major health-care bottlenecks: the lack of essential drugs in primary health facilities. The story of this initiative illustrates that advancing toward UHC is not a simple...
Launch of the research for development project (PRD) on the financing of universal health coverage in Senegal UGB / UT / ULiège / ULB / DPRS / ACMU Thursday, November 30, 2017 at Hôtel Terrou-Bi – Dakar
Event Time : 30 Nov 2017 7:30 am to 30 Nov 2017 5:30 pmTimezone: UTC±00:00Event is Conference : Nohere
MoH informs about the Government’s intention to start implementing SHI starting with coverage of workers in the civil service.
MoH informs about the Government's intention to start implementing SHI starting with coverage of workers in the civil service. This is announced as a way to start implementation of the SHI scheme in the absence of a legislative basis, and in line with the...
23rd session of the Steering Committee of the Ministry of Public Health in Chad
The 23rd session of the Steering Committee of the Ministry of Public Health of Chad was held from November 20 to 23, 2017 at the Hilton Hotel in N'Djaména under the theme "Meeting the challenges of the effective implementation of the PNDS3 and PRDS3 for the...
Workshop to amend and validate documents and texts on free healthcare.
The implementation of free healthcare measures for women and children under 5 living in Burkina Faso began on April 02, 2016 in three regions (Centre, Hauts-Bassins, Sahel) and rolled out nationwide from June 1, 2016. This implementation was underpinned by the...