{"id":987524177,"date":"2012-09-24T03:33:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T02:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/summary-of-p4h-telco-09-2012\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:10:18","slug":"summary-of-p4h-telco-09-2012","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/summary-of-p4h-telco-09-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary of P4H telco -\/09\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
Participants:<\/strong>\u00a0EC: Peter Herzig, Christopher Knauth, Andrea Milkowski; WHO: Joe Kutzin, Solomon Kagulula; WB: Jack Langenbrunner; CHAI: Catarina Andrade, Jan Willem van den Broek; GIZ: Holger Thies; P4H CD: Michael Adelhardt.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The telco served to connect the key development partners (DPs) supporting Zambia on health financing (HF) issues; to exchange information about how each DP perceives the situation in Zambia, as well astheir ongoing and planned activities. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

MoH is working on exploring alternative ways of HF since 2006; support for analytic work and feasibility studies from WHO, WB and ILO; mounting pressure from civil servants to have their own health insurance (HI) scheme; more recently development of a concept for a National Health Fund supported by CHAI; new government (2011) keeps policy directions on HF, requests support for an implementation plan (2 CHAI consultants) and for a roadmap (EC and otherDPs).<\/span><\/p>\n

DP support is coordinated through a country level HF technical working group (CHAI, WB, WHO, JICA, etc.); MoH reports to a multi-sectoral committee on HF issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Key points<\/strong>\u00a0raised:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Revenue generation acceptable with MoF aiming at Abudja target; room for improvement re pooling (fragmentation) and use of resources\u00a0[WB]<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
  • Hence, WB would not agree with proposed new revenue sources outlined in NHF concept note, May 2012<\/span><\/li>\n
  • WB and WHO advise caution on starting with schemes for the better-off; this does not lead to scaling-up coverage; important to get other groups in the pool right from the start.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Develop a HF strategy before designing ‘schemes’; starting with schemes can be at odds with broader UHC objectives;<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Re further DP support, some advise to separate civil servant scheme (will go ahead anyway) from HF strategy towards UHC\u00a0[EC, WB];<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
  • Need to build more national capacity (think tank for analytic work, guiding HF policy), establishment of a health innovationfund (exchange programmes with universities, trainings); road not yet well defined, flexible funding for development of such a unit\u00a0[EC].<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Collaboration:\u00a0<\/strong>all participants are open to enhance networking and collaboration; WB invites other DPs to work closely with WB economists in their country office, since many issues go beyond the health sector and are linked to broader economic policy; DPs should get behind a joint approach; EC offers to coordinate their investment with other DPs, invites other DPs to participate in the planning\/mission for the remaining EDF10 funds (EUR 24 Mio.);<\/span><\/p>\n

    P4H Coordination Desk (CD)\u00a0<\/strong>points out the ‘inform and involve’ principle; think of and factor in the complementary resources and capacities of the network at regional and global level; keep P4H CD informed; avoid parallel planning processes by making use of ongoing and planned interactions of DPs with govt. or in country level task force and bring other DPs on board; CD is not a substitute for country level coordination – more of a complementary service desk connecting the regional and global level of interested DPs.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Next steps:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    • Continue info exchange through this email group;<\/span><\/li>\n
    • P4H CD to provide summary of discussion;<\/span><\/li>\n
    • DPs, in particular EC to consider involvement of other partners in their EDF planning process (including regional and global structures of P4H network)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • WB to keep other partners informed about the outcome of the current mission.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Participants:\u00a0EC: Peter Herzig, Christopher Knauth, Andrea Milkowski; WHO: Joe Kutzin, Solomon Kagulula; WB: Jack Langenbrunner; CHAI: Catarina Andrade, Jan Willem van den Broek; GIZ: Holger Thies; P4H CD: Michael Adelhardt. The telco served to connect the key development partners (DPs) supporting Zambia on health financing (HF) issues; to exchange information about how each DP perceives…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}