{"id":987645727,"date":"2017-03-15T05:48:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/who-inception-mission-to-zambia-under-the-eu-lux-who-unc-partnership-program-27feb-03-mar-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T05:48:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T04:48:06","slug":"who-inception-mission-to-zambia-under-the-eu-lux-who-unc-partnership-program-27feb-03-mar-2017","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/who-inception-mission-to-zambia-under-the-eu-lux-who-unc-partnership-program-27feb-03-mar-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Inception mission to Zambia under the EU-Lux-WHO UNC Partnership Program. 27Feb-03 Mar 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WHO inception mission to Zambia consisting of 3 organizational levels took place from 27 February to 3 March 2017. The main objective of the mission was to review and\u00a0discuss\u00a0EU-Lux-WHO partnership program roadmap activities with national experts and representatives of relevant development partners. Because, Zambia\u00a0was selected as one of 4 countries that joined the UHC partnership program\u00a0in 2016.\u00a0The roadmap was developed around 3 strategic objectives to support the development and implementation of\u00a0the National Health Strategic Plan for 2017-2021; to support technical and institutional\u00a0capacities for health systems and financing; and to improve the effectiveness\u00a0of development assistance.\u00a0The mission followed the program prepared by the WHO country office. Accordingly, individual meetings held\u00a0with national officials of\u00a0the MoH,\u00a0WHO country office staff and representatives of\u00a0UN country team, EU, DFID, ILO, AfDB, USAID,\u00a0and the World Bank. All partners supported the strategic objectives of the program and related roadmap specific activities. It was clear that social health insurance (SHI) is an important agenda of the government. Currently, there is an ongoing process to submit the SHI Bill to the Parliament for approval. However, the mission has got some reservations that Zambia may not ready yet\u00a0to start SHI right way as planned.\u00a0There are some issues still need to be clarified through broad consultation and agreement with national stakeholders. These include insurance\u00a0coverage, contribution\u00a0subsidy,\u00a0collection, benefit package,\u00a0its provision and additional\u00a0investments needed for\u00a0SHI implementation and administration.\u00a0These\u00a0issues need to be well reflected in the national health development plans to ensure that good quality health service benefits are available to\u00a0all insured from the start. SHI also needs to\u00a0be well positioned in\u00a0the\u00a0national health financing strategy for UHC which is still under\u00a0development. All these require strong leadership and ownership from the MoH to advance the\u00a0work in collaboration with other relevant sectors such as finance and\u00a0social protection. In this regard, WHO was asked to help and influence the MoH under the UHC 2030 agenda\u00a0focusing on health planning, financing, social health protection and aid effectiveness. P4H`s role in this process would primarily focus on facilitating\u00a0dialogues among\u00a0different national and co-operating partners with active involvement and support of\u00a0ILO, WB and WHO.\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">P4H`s involvement in the implementation of the EU-Lux-WHO UHC Partnership program would make it as\u00a0an enabler by bringing the lead and other co-operating partners\u00a0working on health, finance and social protection, creating more spaces for effective collaboration and offering P4H products and services such as the UHC Leadership training program for capacity building as relevant.<span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WHO inception mission to Zambia consisting of 3 organizational levels took place from 27 February to 3 March 2017. The main objective of the mission was to review and\u00a0discuss\u00a0EU-Lux-WHO partnership program roadmap activities with national experts and representatives of relevant development partners. 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