Strengthening Primary Health Care for Results Programme – Tanzania
Global Financing Facility embedded into the WB PHC Programme for Results 201703_WB Program for Results incl GFF
P4HC+ update – Feb 2017
The Cambodian government is clearly in the driver’s seat. Although they didn’t start in pole position, over the course of some laps they were able to manoeuvre themselves in a comfortable place to end on the UHC podium. The vehicle assembled during the last year and...
Follow-up to 2nd Stakeholder Forum: draft proposal for political dialogue
The 2nd Stakeholder Forum discussions on 14 Oct 2016 involving 12 Parliamentarians showed that the political support for NHI mainly rests on two pillars: Expectation that NHI will generate funding without restricting access for the poor Expectation that NHI will...
2nd Health Sector Reform Stakeholder Forum
On 13 and 14 October, health sector Reform stakeholders got together to receive an update on the Health Sector Reform programme of the MOH and discuss findings of assessments on two key proposed reforms: Health Fund (earmarking of general revenue for health) and...
P4H Mission to Kenya – October 2016
Development partners engaged in supporting, monitoring, and advocating for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) show strong interest in exchanging on the UHC agenda. And on effective collaboration on finalizing and implementing the Kenyan health financing strategy. P4H+...
P4HC+ update
Following the fading of El Niño, rains finally set in and temperatures dropped. This allowed for many activities to happen as people were reinvigorated, including P4HC+ partners. Most Khmer farmers, however, incurred serious debts as a result of the draught and soring...
Introduction of a ‘Better Budgeting Practices Tool’ – for better alignment of PFM with HF
Public Financial Management (PFM) and Health Financing (HF) systems aim to make use of public funds effectively. In health this means that funds are spent efficiently and equitably, and used to purchase quality interventions. Alignment between Budget Cycle/ PFM...
Article on L4UHC High-Level Policy Dialogue event in Feb 2016
Please find below a link to an article about the Leadership for UHC High Level Policy Dialogue event, which took place in Chisamba in Feb 2016 (see also Intranet entry from 19.02.16) ------- A multi-sectoral, high-level group – drawn from across government, the...
P4HC+ update and joint support plan (draft)
The new coordination mechanism called P4H Cambodia+ (P4HC+) bringing 12 organizations to the table is taking off. The update below provides some context and info on upcoming activities. Context: With the onset of 2016 a new breeze went through the Cambodian health...
Designing a new coordination mechanism
Given the new Health Strategic Plan 2016-20, the development of the Social Health Protection Framework by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the invitation of several donor partners (and finally agreement by the others) for P4H to coordinate the technical input...
Process update -/01/2016
Source: GIZ / P4H Country Focal Point The formulation of the third Health Strategic Plan (2016-20) is not yet completed although the section on health financing was finalised. The related strategies will focus on the national budget for health, targeting of available...
NHI implementation update -/09/2015
Source: GIZ i. The implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) was targeted nearly a year ago (November, 2014) with design features including draft Standard Operating Procedure in hand. However the lack of legal basis has led to delayed...
Process update -/08/2015
Source: P4H Country Focal Point (GIZ) A major activity was the formulation of the third Health Strategic Plan 2016-20, a consultative process that commenced at the start of this calendar year. Attention was paid to carefully integrate elements of the Health Financing...
Two requests – one mission
The Government of Malawi is in the process of undertaking a series of reforms aimed at restructuring the health system and assessing financing options to ensure a more efficient, transparent and equitable health system. Two requests. In this context, a...
MoH request to comment on updated draft HFS – June 2015
The Ugandan Ministry of Health issues a request to the P4H Network to review the updated Health Financing Strategy. 2015_05_01_UGA_HFS_Draft 2015_06_10_UGA_MoH_request_HFS_review The preparations for a joint response can be viewed on the Ugandan Forum pages.