P4H provided technical support in the development of Myanmar National Health Insurance Bill, having it translated from Burmese to English for wider stakeholder consultation. P4H also assisted in seeking feedback on the bill from a wider variety of in-country and...

Lessons from Rapid Implementation: how the revamped system to purchase COVID services in Indonesia affected its hospitals
The authors: Dr Anooj Pattnaik (ThinkWell Global, Deputy Director for Learning), Ryan Nugraha (ThinkWell Indonesia), Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany (ThinkWell Indonesia), and Catherine Connor (Program Director at ThinkWell). The spread of COVID-19 around the world has...

What is going on in Kazakhstan?
Recently, the Minister of the national economy of Kazakhstan Ruslan Dalenov presented the results of socio-economic development since the beginning of 2020. At the end of November, inflation was 7.3%, and the GDP decreased by 2.8%. Inflation, combined with the...

Republic of Korea’s COVID-19 preparedness and Response
World Bank's discussion paper, Nov 2020 devoted to Republic of Korea's COVID-19 preparedness and Response. It emphasizes that post-MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) legislative and regulatory reforms enhanced the public health preparedness and response system in...

Latest Iteration of Myanmar Development Assistance Policy
The latest Iteration of Myanmar Development Assistance Policy has been launched in November 2020. The new policy aims to ensure that development assistance is at all times: fully aligned with the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan 2018-2030, and Sectoral,...

Lives and livelihoods: a decision framework for social and movement measures during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Edith Patouillard, Andrew Mirelman, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, Agnès Soucat Across the world, policy makers are implementing measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, protect the health care system and people’s health. While there is no vaccine...
Qatar: Law No.12 of 2020 regulating Public Private Partnerships (PPP).
This Law consisting of 30 articles aims at providing a legislative framework for regulating the private sector’s contribution to the implementation of major development projects.
Patient Data Protection Act 2020
On 3 July 2020, Germany’s Federal Parliament, the Bundestag, passed the Patient Data Protection Act or Patientendaten-Schutz-Gesetz (PDSG). It entered into force less than four months later, on 20 October 2020. The PDSG is part of a push for the digitalization of the...

New study highlights the relevance of social determinants of health in Mozambique
A recent study published by Sam Jones and Alba Llop (Copenhaguen University) puts the focus on the identification of Social Determinants of Health that significantly influence health inequalities. These SDH are crucial for the design of appropriate evidence-based...
Presidential election in Burkina Faso – 2020
2020 presidential election: Nine candidates pledge to reduce inequality in Burkina Faso At a signing ceremony held this Friday, September 25, 2020, nine candidates in the November 22 presidential election pledged to implement, if elected, ten sets of recommendations...

Presidential election in Burkina Faso – 2020
2020 presidential election: Nine candidates pledge to reduce inequality in Burkina Faso At a signing ceremony held this Friday, September 25, 2020, nine candidates in the November 22 presidential election pledged to implement, if elected, ten sets of recommendations...
