P4H provided platform and promoted dialogues, experience sharing between countries, regional office, global experts and global coordination desk. The Country Focal Person (CFP) Namibia had the opportunity to have regular interactions with other CFPs like the CFP in...
Following the inputs from the WHO Namibia office, orientation from the Global Coordination Desk as well as Regional Support, and learnings from other countries, the Country Focal Person (CFP) Namibia developed an introductory presentation on the discussion of the...
The P4H Country Focal Person continues liaison with the Ministry of Health in Namibia towards budgetary dialogue in the context of COVID-19. Discussion with Deputy Director Budget and Finance: There were discussions with Deputy Director Budget and Finance who...
A small task force from the UHC Committee consisting of representative from WHO, MoHSS – Policy and Planning Department, USAID and Abt Associates was constituted and convened in Namibia. The task force discussed different options, developed a matrix of possible area...
The P4H Country Focal Person (CFP) made a presentation at the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Committee meeting with the objective of taking the initiative further and promoting joint ownership towards the budget dialogue. The presentation focused on ACT-A initiative,...
Presenting a group of five documents on reducing catastrophic health expenditure and out-of-pocket payments (OOP) and moving towards universal health coverage UHC) through the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran. One study is on a range of factors that...
In this paper, Ajay Tandon and K Srinath Reddy build the case for public financing as absolutely essential for realising the UHC dream. They focus on the argument that UHC is also intrinsically about a policy direction that emphasises at its core redistribution of...
As P4H Country Focal Person (CFP) for Kuwait, Henrik Axelson will provide support to the government and development partners in carrying out a health financing assessment using the Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM), establishing a Health Economics and Financing...
Background The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Kuwait has requested the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide support to strengthening its capacity to use health economics and financing tools and approaches to inform the design, planning, implementation, and...
Henrik Axelson is an independent consultant based in Cairo and originally from Sweden. He is a health economist and health financing practitioner with more than 20 years of experience of providing technical assistance and policy advice to governments of low and...
World Bank reported that the Government of Tajikistan launched the development of an investment plan to boost the health care system, at an event, which was attended by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health and Social Protection,...
Shirin Amonzoda, PhD, Minister of Labor, Migration and Employment of the Population of Tajikistan, initiated and held a congress on December 16, 2021 in Dushanbe, dedicated to cooperation of the Ministry with donors and partners. Dr Amonzoda stressed that the...
On April 8, 2019, IWPR Tajikistan (the Institute for War & Peace Reporting) hosted an expert meeting titled “Introduction of the Insurance System in Healthcare of Tajikistan”. Experts, representatives of public and private organizations, independent analysts and...
With the support of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the World Bank organized a round table titled “Health insurance in Tajikistan”. The event was held in capital city Dushanbe on November 1, 2021, as...
Overview This Process Guide lays out a sequenced set of analytics and actions to support reorienting budgetary arrangements to facilitate the ability of national governments to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by delivering therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccine...
