E-learning courses
How to design equitable social health protection?
5 h
An advocacy tool to empower current and future policymakers from Sub-Saharan Africa, and anyone interested in promoting universal social health protection
About the course
The EU Facility SOCIEUX+, which brings European expertise to countries around the world at the request of partner institutions, has been responding to a high demand for technical cooperation requests from Sub-Saharan Africa on social protection for health. Based on this interest, and considering the challenges regarding catastrophic health expenditures, SOCIEUX+ has developed an e-course to support (future) policy makers, and anyone interested to address these crucial issues. It aims to provide knowledge, tools, the mindset and communication skills to guide decisive action, and a space for collective knowledge sharing. The course focuses on equity, an important value that is often overlooked in the design of social health protection. It deals with concepts related to equity, the development of a common vision and legislative framework, equity in health care funding, equity in (non-financial) access to healthcare, the necessary institutional reforms and the use of indicators.
Acting Upon Inequality
2:30 h
An e-course designed for experts working with SOCIEUX+, and open to everyone interested
About the course
The SOCIEUX+ e-learning Acting upon inequality aims to sensitise and empower experts mobilised by the Facility to do no harm and to contribute to reduce social and economic inequality in their actions with partner institutions. Because inequality hinders the achievement of the SDG’s. Inequality is not only unjust, it is also the root cause of poverty. Moreover, limited inequality favours social cohesion, poverty reduction, sustainable growth and conflict sensitivity and is a way to mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change. Inequality is no longer seen as a necessary stage towards development. Inequality is the result of human-made choices and can be acted upon with a clever mix of policies that are implemented progressively over time. To act upon inequality, the topic needs to be top of mind and we need to keep our focus constantly and explicitly on it when designing policies and projects. It is important to carefully design policies and projects to avoid side effects, to assess who can benefit from universal and targeted policies and to understand interactions with other policies and life-events.
