Launching new knowledge product: An overview of Jordan’s social health protection reforms
From introducing health insurance for the Jordanian Armed Forces in 1963 to a full-fledged civilian health insurance programme amended as recently as January 2022, Jordan has come a long way in strengthening social health protection. The Jordan country page now...
Cameroon: Workshop to define a financing mechanism for the CSU pilot phase
The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with WHO and with the support of the P4H Focal Person, is organizing a workshop from May 04 to 07, 2022 in Douala to define the financing mechanism for the CSU pilot phase, scheduled to start in 2023. This workshop will...
Social protection in Mali: Creation of a unified social security system
The Minister of Health and Social Development presented a report on a draft decree instituting the Unified Social Register which the Council of Ministers in its meeting of April 20, 2022 adopted. Data on the various vulnerable strata recorded on several registers were...
Burkina Faso: CSOs build capacity on global health financing mechanisms (GFF)
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, a workshop was held in Ouagadougou to prepare a roadmap for the involvement of civil society organizations (CSOs), on the initiative of the association SOS Jeunesse et Défis, in the Global Funding Facility (GFF) process in Burkina...
Burkina Faso: CSOs build capacity on global health financing mechanisms (GFF)
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, a workshop was held in Ouagadougou to prepare a roadmap for the involvement of civil society organizations (CSOs), on the initiative of the association SOS Jeunesse et Défis, in the Global Funding Facility (GFF) process in Burkina...
New publication: WHO Step-by-step guide to conducting a cross-programmatic efficiency analysis
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a diagnostic approach to enable countries to look across health programmes that are part of their health system to detect “cross-programmatic” inefficiencies. The approach uses applied health system analysis to unpack...
Webinar 3: Expanding social health protection coverage to the ‘missing middle’ populations in India
This is the third of the four-webinar series on Health Financing in India ( the 1st and 2nd webinars were held on August 18 and October 19, 2021, respectively) and is developed by health financing experts from ILO, WHO India, IHSC and ACCESS Health International....
Extending Social Health Protection in Lebanon: The role of national social security fund in achieving universal health coverage
This study explores possibilities for strengthening the Lebanese health insurance model and extending social health protection to uncovered workers, including those in the informal economy. The situation assessment analyses the health system and the health financing...
Oman MOH conducts workshop ‘Toward excellence and innovation in financial management in the Ministry of Health’
Oman’s Ministry of Health (MOH) conducted a three-day workshop titled ‘’Toward Excellence and Innovation in Financial Management’’ to discuss scientific methods for increasing the MOH fiscal space. Oman aims to get a high return on investing in people's...
South Africa’s COVID-19 response Gets a $750 million boost
On 20 January 2022, the South African Government received a low-interest Development Policy Loan (DPL) of $750 million from the World Bank Group to support its efforts to accelerate the COVID-19 response aimed at protecting the poor and vulnerable from the adverse...
The Malawi parliament’s cluster committee on Health, HIV and Aids, and Nutrition pushes for an increase in health budget to ensure adequate financing for Universal Health Coverage.
In the budget presented by the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Sosten Gwengwe at the parliament earlier in March this year, the health sector was allocated the third-highest sectoral allocation behind education and agriculture, which amounts to about US$349...
Honduran Social Security Institute seeks to expand coverage with new law
The executive director of the IHSS, Adriana Zúñiga, proposes to the health commission of the National Congress that the institute joins the efforts for the creation of the new Social Security Law, allowing the expansion of coverage based on updated actuarial studies....
2nd meeting of the coordination framework for health TFPs in Cameroon
Event Time : 27 Apr 2022 1:00 pm to 27 Apr 2022 3:00 pmTimezone: Event is Conference : No
Camerún: 1ª reunión del marco de coordinación del PTF sanitario
La 1ª reunión del marco de coordinación de los PTF sanitarios en Camerún se celebró el 30 de marzo de 2022 en virtual entre las 15:00 y las 17:00 horas con el siguiente orden del día aprobado: Temas principales Situación de la epidemia de cólera Información...
Cameroon: 1st meeting of the health TFP coordination framework
The 1st meeting of the coordination framework of PTFs in health in Cameroon was held on March 30, 2022 in virtual between 15:00 and 17:00 with the following adopted agenda: Main themes Cholera epidemic situation Pandemic update from Covid in Cameroon Activities...