ToR of a study on the efficiency of healthcare expenditure – Burkina Faso – Sept 2018
The overall objective of this study is to analyze and align financial resource allocations with the health sector's priority objectives, thereby providing evidence to support decision-making to improve allocative efficiency. Specifically, this involves : evaluate the...
ToR of the CSO health financing workshop in Côte d’Ivoire – Sept 2018
ASAPSU is organizing, with the support of the ACTION partnership and global health advocates, a three-day workshop prior to the national dialogue on health financing to strengthen civil society voices and positions on health financing. A large number of speeches are...
Launch of a study on expenditure efficiency – by and for the Ministry of Health – Burkina Faso
On his arrival last year, Burkina Faso's Minister of Health was quick to call for an analysis of the efficiency of healthcare spending. In parallel with the GFF process, it commissioned an internal study to address some of its concerns: is the current allocation of...
Fiscal space in Côte d’Ivoire
An extremely interesting study which shows that Côte d'Ivoire can significantly increase its fiscal space for healthcare by working to improve the efficiency of its spending.
Beyond Legal Coverage: Assessing the Performance of Social Health Protection
Short Abstract: Social health protection (SHP) is a primary objective of achieving universal health coverage; however, the challenge that remains is defining a comprehensive measurement of SHP performance. This article proposes a more innovative mechanism for...
A Political Economy Model Of Health
Short Abstract Interest group politics is known to have growing influence on the health policy-making process. This paper utilizes a political economy model to examine how the organization of industry can shape insurance coverage and public involvement in the...
Findings Resource Mapping FY 2017/2018: Malawi’s health financing mainly comes from external sources and is highly fragmented
Malawi’s health sector programs are financed and implemented by hundreds of organizations. In the past, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) has found it challenging to track and coordinate the activities of all partners. To address this challenge, and in the...
Operational Review of the Cambodian National Social Security Fund: recommendations for institutional reforms (ILO, 2017)
This report reviews the operations of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) of Cambodia in order to assess its current capacities and institutional constraints as it continues to grow. This is done in the context of the launch of the National Social Protection...
Khmer Times: NSSF discusses coverage of informal workers
Khmer Times, 13 September 2018: " The National Social Security Fund on Tuesday held a meeting to discuss social security coverage for informal workers who are often on short-term contracts or are paid by the day with no contract at all, such as construction workers. "...
4th Global Health Expenditure Tracking meeting, Geneva 17-19 Sept.2018
Event Time : 17 Sep 2018 6:30 am to 19 Sep 2018 4:00 pmTimezone: UTC+02:00Event is Conference : No
Joint workshop on Equity: Concepts, Tools and Methods for Analysts and Users (September 3-7)
The US Center for Disease Control, Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine and P4H joined financial resource for the National Institute of Public Health to facilitate a workshop on Equity and UHC. The workshop aimed at raising general awareness on equity amongst...
Special P4HC+ Meeting on Quality of Care Indicators
To inform the development of the M&E tool for the National Social Protection Policy Framework, a special meeting was held on August 31st by P4HC+, attended by representatives of HP+, GIZ, WHO, USAID and agencies making up the pooled funding arrangement H-EQIP...
International Conference in Maputo on Health Financing and PFM in Health Systems
Maputo hosted on 28th and 29th August an International Conference on Health Financing and Public Financial Management in Health Systems, organized by the Civil Society Support Forum (MASC). Researchers, policy-makers and Civil Society members debated around user fees,...