Development of Health Financing capacities
WHO and GIZ are planning a 5-day Health Financing Course in Tajikistan offered by the WHO Regional Office for Europe during the first half of 2014. The course will provide a basic introduction to effective policy instruments to improve health system performance...
Asia Regional Flagship course on Health Systems Strengthening and Sustainable Financing – March 2014
In accordance with the attached SMO, the 5-day Asia Regional Flagship course on Health Systems Strengthening and Sustainable Financing - The challenge of UHC, was successfully delivered to 70 participants. Groups from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar,...
New version of the draft health financing policy
Following the consultative meeting of 19/02/2014, a new version of the draft health financing policy is circulated. See below. 2014_02_19_MoH_Cambodia-health_financing_policy_after_consultative_meeting
Health Minister committed to increase health budget – Feb 2014
Intended Increase of the Health Budget! Shortly after the national UHC workshop and the Round-Table-Discussion, the Minister of Health makes public announcements about his intentions to increase the health budget. Below are a selection of links of recent media...
National UHC stakeholder meeting and round table – Feb 2014
Update on 27 Feb 2014 P4H CD report of visit to Bangladesh 17-19 Feb 2014: 2014_02_27_Bangladesh__P4H_CD_report_visit_17-19Feb14 Here are the links to the presentations of the below mentioned National UHC Workshop: 2014_02_12_ICDDR-B_Fin-risk-protect-UHC-HEU...
MoH request to develop UHC options paper – Feb 2014
Request communicated to P4H CD by Munguti Nzoya (MoH) on Wednesday, 19 February 2014, The Ministry of Health TWG on UHC has finalized the ToR for consultancy services to develop an options paper for UHC in Kenya. The consultant will synthesize the three (draft)...
UHC situation assessment – draft reports (Oct2013-Feb2014)
[new draft report updates are marked in red] The UHC situation assessment has started in Sep 2013. To keep an overview of various draft versions and comments from members, we've assigned this space to collect and list all draft reports and updates as well as the...
P4H country network meets SG member David Evans – Feb 2014
The P4H focal person in Tanzania Nina Siegert shares the minutes of a meeting on 12 Feb 2014 between P4H Network members in Tanzania and P4H SG member David Evans, Director Health Governance and Financing, WHO HQ. The meeting concludes that the technical aspects of...
Costing of Essential Health Package – Feb 2014
WHO shares first cost estimates of the proposed Essential Health Package (EHP). [This refers to one of the 10 work packages outlined in the previous Intranet entry on 2.12.13] Dear all Kindly find the 1st excel sheet sent by Shakti [Public Health Foundation India,...
3rd Draft of National Social Protection Strategy – Jan/Feb 2014
12 Feb 2014 - UN comments on SP strategy The Planning Commission GED will conduct a consultation workshop on the national Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) with concerned government agencies on 16 February 2014, which is a good chance to provide inputs from the health...
Reaching out to the Hon. Minister of Health – HFS policy brief, Feb 2014
Following the discussions of the HDP core team on 14 Jan 2014 (minutes), the Development Partners send a policy brief concerning the health financing strategy (HFS) to the Hon. Minister of Health:
WHO, WB and AfDB comments on draft HFS (Version4,/10/2013)
Jan 2014: more comments on HFS from AfDB : 2014_01_17_HF_Strategy_comments_AfDB Oct 2013: Below are the comments from WHO and WB on the current draft Health Financing Strategy (version 4). Respective internal mail exchanges including the P4H CD mail to the...
Notes of HDP Core Team Meeting -/01/2014
The meeting deliberated on the status of the Health Financing Strategy and proposed measures for consideration by Health Development Partners (HDPs) to expedite the development of the strategy. The meeting noted (a) the development of the strategy has been bogged by...
NHI: proposed institutional and organizational set-up -/01/2014
GIZ shares a report for the proposed institutional and organizational set up for the National Health Insurance (NHI) of Nepal along with its functions and functionaries. [This refers to one of the 10 work packages outlined in the previous Intranet entry on 2.12.13]...
In the pipeline / prospective P4H country +++ SDC initiating P4H collaboration
From: Kern Debora, SDC Date: Tuesday, 17 December 2013 To: P4H SG and TCG Subject: P4H in Mozambique? Dear Focal Points of the P4H network I hope this email finds you all well. You might be informed that Mozambique established during the last months a quite...