This short ppt presents humanitarian support needs in Burkina Faso, the significant increase in needs between 2019 and 2020, and the funding gap. This information is important for understanding the country's increasingly unfavorable context for structural development,...
Khmer Times, 16 January 2020: " As the deadline to expand the Kingdom’s social nettings programme is set for this year, Labour Minister Ith Samheng is urging NSSF officials to finish their study so protection can also be provided to public officials, former civil...
The Phnom Penh Post, 14 January 2020: " As of last year, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) registered more than 10,000 enterprises to cover more than 1.7 million workers under occupational risk and healthcare schemes. Minister of Labour and Vocational Training...
Khmer Times, 27 December 2019: " The National Social Protection Council yesterday reported the government has spent $43.8 million to provide healthcare services to impoverished citizens and government officials this year through its Health Equity Fund. " Read more
Until recently there was no overarching platform for coordinating social protection schemes across ministries and agencies in Cambodia. With support from Germany and the United States, the General Secretariat of the National Social Protection Council is now playing...
To inform efforts to improve Cambodia’s social health protection system and advance universal health coverage, health care-seeking and out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) were assessed using the 2016 Cambodia Socioeconomic Survey data. This study focuses on the poorest...
The Phnom Penh Post, 20 November 2019: "Workers and employees in the private sector will receive the same benefits as those in the public sector if they pay their income tax and fulfil other legal requirements.The recently passed Law on Social Security Schemes states...
For children under 5, PECIME basket on the entire pyramid 3 appeals per year on average for children under 5 years of age 15 billion spent on children under 5 in 2017, 16 billion in 2018. Cost of Caesarean section: 2.2 billion in 2018 And even more so in the report...
By Augustine Asante, Ir Por, Bart Jacobs and Virginia Wiseman Universal health coverage (UHC) appears to be on everybody’s agenda these days, especially low- and middle- income countries (LIMCs). But achieving UHC goes beyond having it on one’s agenda; it requires,...
Participants, findings, recommendations and next steps for overhauling the free program in Niger.
The meeting of experts to overhaul Niger's free healthcare system was held today, Thursday, October 17, 2019, as planned. The experts come from Lasdel (political anthropology research center), the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Finance (Budget &...
Paper on User Fees in Cameroon / UNAIDS , August 2019
In May 2013, France launched the Initiative Solidarité Santé Sahel1 (I3S) aimed at facilitating financial access to healthcare for children in Sahelian countries by supporting politically committed countries in setting up solidarity-based healthcare access systems. Of...
