The HFRG meeting was chaired by the Secretary of health. Presentation of the health care financing strategy workshop and roadmap by the Joint Chief of the HEU, and agreement on the next steps, e.g. to hire a lead consultant to provide support to the the working...
WHO contributes a background paper providing a situation analysis of the health financing system in Nepal to the Technical Working Group (TWG), incorporating inputs from P4H network partners and other relevant stakeholders (see report for details)....
The MoHFW Health Economics Unit (HEU) has prepared a first draft of the vision, goals and objectives of the health financing strategy for further discussion. Vision, Goal & objectives of HCF Strategy_25Oct2011
The Government: resolves to have a comprehensive Social Protection Strategy finalized and ready to launch preferably by September 2012; and calls on Development Partners and Civil Society to contribute to the process of developing the social protection strategy and in...
The health financing workshop concluded with the development of a roadmap for the health financing strategy process. The roadmap implementation will be led by the HEU with inputs from the Health Financing Resource Group. Milestones of the roadmap include: • the...
In preparation for the Joint Annual Review Meeting on 25-26 Oct, the P4H network partners jointly developed a health financing synthesis paper. The key objectives were to maintain the momentum of the health financing strategy development process, and to make...
In order to foster cost-conscious decision-making in the health sector, P4H supported a study on health sector cost-drivers – strategic decisions that have large cost implications for the sector. The results show that Tanzania has taken a number of cost-intensive...
The World Bank publishes fiscal space study looking at ways to expand the fiscal space to accommodate increased expenditures. The study looks at conducive macroeconomic conditions, the re-prioritization of health in the budget, health-sector specific sources, grants...
Minister for health (Mr. Shakti Basnet) is briefed on the findings of different studies in a meeting of high level Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) officials and external development partners (EDPs). The meeting focuses on ways to improve the health financing...
A joint Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) and external development partners (EDP) workshop takes place, focused on identifying ways to improve the health financing system and social health protection (SHP). Agreement is reached on consolidating existing SHP...
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Following an advisory mission to Kenya undertaken from 28 June to 3 July by Xenia Scheil-Adlung and Axel Weber, ILO suggests developing an integrated national social protection policy in Kenya. See the mission report below....
In order to accelerate the efforts undertaken as part of the national strategy to extend health risk coverage, the Ministry of Health adopted a detailed roadmap in June 2010. It is based on the three pillars of the national strategy.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) and World Health Organization (WHO) carried out a health financing review supported by P4H to contribute to a deeper understanding of possible health financing options and to inform the planned health financing strategy process, including...
The concept of social health protection (SHP) and the role of the Ministry of Health (MoH) as steward in the transition towards universal health coverage have been included in the national health policy 2010-2020. Agreement has also been reached on the development of...
