Actions in Health Policy

  • Enhancing Institutional capacities of the OSH Center are supported in view of the ongoing legislative and institutional developments in the area of OSH in Mongolia

    Asia Mongolia
    Start activities
    19/05/2025
    End activities
    30/06/2026
    Partner Institution
    Occupational Health and Safety Center
    Type of Assistance
    Training of trainers
    Code
    2025-03
    Description
    The SOCIEUX+ Action significantly strengthened the institutional, technical, and organizational capacities of Mongolia’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Center at a key moment of legal and organizational reform. Through peer‑to‑peer expertise from five European countries and triangular cooperation with South Korea, the initiative delivered practical tools such as tailored training modules, updated third-party voluntary inspection methodologies, an improved roadmap for the registration of occupational accidents and diseases, and key lessons for establishing a rehabilitation center. These efforts directly enhanced the skills of 31 OSH specialists, trained nearly 400 enterprise representatives, and improved the Center’s ability to conduct third-party voluntary inspections, provide evidence‑based recommendations, and prepare for an expanded mandate. Beyond capacity building, the action generated immediate institutional impacts: Mongolia advanced draft regulations on workers’ health surveillance and on the reporting of occupational diseases; the OSH Center Clinic obtained permission to provide postgraduate medical education; and cooperation with Germany’s DGUV was strengthened with concrete follow‑up initiatives. Together, these results position the OSH Center to implement upcoming reforms, modernize its prevention and monitoring systems, and contribute to safer, healthier workplaces across Mongolia. Such support aims at bringing a capacity-building component to the OSH Center, complementary to the strengthening of its management tools and in view of the current legislative & institutional reforms, with the upcoming adoption of the new OSH Law (expected to be adopted in June 2025 by the Parliament); and with the new Improvement Plan of the OSH Center (as of April  2025). Both legislative and institutional changes will bring new challenges for the OSH Center, and an extended mandate and competencies. The present Action will thus aim at better equipping the OSH Center with the necessary capacity building, technical preparation and strengthening of its organizational tools to embrace such changes.

  • Review and completion of the legal framework of health insurance

    WESTERN BALKANS Kosovo*
    Start activities
    24-04-2023
    End activities
    17/07/2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Health
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development Institutional capacity buildin
    Code
    2023-09
    Description
    In the course of this single-activity Action, a proposal for a complete revision of the Health Insurance Law has been prepared by using an incremental and highly participatory approach involving SOCIEUX+ mobilized experts from Luxembourg and Portugal and the members the multi-stakeholder working group, established for that purpose by the Ministry of Health of Kosovo* with the support of the World Bank. As result, provisions of the final draft of revised law are built on a large consensus. The reform proposal particularly looks at ways to extend health coverage to unprotected and uninsured individuals. The adoption of the revised text of now follows the legislative process of approval by the Cabinet of Ministers and the Parliament.

  • The role of a national health insurance institution in ensuring quality of services

    South-East Asia Lao PDR
    Start activities
    1-10-2019
    End activities
    4-10-2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Health
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2018-11
    Description
    The Action contributed to an increased understanding among relevant stakeholders and the National Health Insurance Board’s (NHIB) staff on the need for having a clearly defined benefit package included in health insurance, on the functions of a health insurance management agencies, and on their role in ensuring quality of healthcare services. Mobilized experts from Estonia, France, Hungary and Italy have also addressed the institutional, administrative and technical aspects required to hand over the management of the formal sector health insurance schemes to the NHIB in line with the national policy and regulations.

  • Support to the “International Forum on Health Coverage in the Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale Area (CIPRES)”

    WESTERN AFRICA Togo
    Start activities
    Aug-17
    End activities
    Aug-17
    Partner Institution
    Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare [Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale]
    Type of Assistance
     International events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2017-19
    Description
    Experts from France and Luxembourg provided two written (paper) and visual (PowerPoint) presentations as background documents for the International Forum on Health Coverage in the CIPRES area, expected to take place in Brazzaville on 4-6 October 2017.

  • Development of a national social health insurance system

    NORTH AMERICA Saint Lucia
    Start activities
    29/01/2018
    End activities
    15/07/2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Health and Wellness
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-18
    Description
    The technical assistance was instrumental in letting emerge policy options for the financing of the health system in Saint Lucia in view of the introduction of a national health insurance (NHI). Experts from France, Germany and Italy accompanied emerging policy options on a concrete context analysis. A second outcome was an individual capacity development of key staff of the Ministry of Health and Wellness on policy design in relation to public health policies. The theoretical learning was linked to the current project of introduction of NHI, with experts helping to outline the distinct phases and steps that shall be accomplished for introducing NHI in Saint Lucia.