Acciones en Sanidad
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Support to the Ministry of Health of Montenegro in creating a quality control system
- Start activities
- 23-05-2023
- End activities
- Ongoing
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Health
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2023-08
- Description
- In collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Montenegro, this initiative identified institutional and organizational capacity gaps, empowering the MoH to lead the development of a quality of care framework. Leveraging expertise from multiple EU countries—including Slovenia, Portugal, Croatia, Estonia, and France—the MoH gained insights and lessons from diverse perspectives. Emphasis was placed on enhancing governance and health information systems.
Strengthening capacities of the public health insurance fund in Uzbekistan in the area of price setting
- Start activities
- 23-06-2022
- End activities
- 20-03-2023
- Partner Institution
- State Fund Health Insurance
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2022-01
- Description
- Uzbekistan State Health Insurance Fund established in December 2020 is invested with the mandate to improve the access to healthcare services and the efficiency of the sector. At the initial stage, the fund is responsible for the formulation and piloting of new public health funding schemes. The peer-to-peer cooperation with the experts from Estonia, France, Czech Republic, and Germany reinforced the capacities of the Fund to manage this process, from identification of packages of reimbursable healthcare services to proposing guidelines for the price-setting mechanism and performance-based assessment. The Fund was also supported in implementing the pilot project in one of the regions.
Building capactiy of the UTM to enable the management of universal health insurance coverage
- Start activities
- oct-2015
- End activities
- jun-2016
- Partner Institution
- Technical Unition of Mutual Health Insurance [Union Technique de la Mutualité] (UTM)
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional Strengthening
- Code
- 2015-14
- Description
- The Technical Union of Malian Mutual Insurers (UTM) is one of three functioning bodies responsible for health insurance coverage. The UTM functions as an umbrella organisation for about 30 (of 164) voluntary mutual health insurance schemes. The UTM supports the creation, development and technical supervision of schemes and the management of a common health insurance platform for all its members. The National Strategy to Extend the Coverage of Mutual Health Insurers was adopted in 2011 to improve the accessibility to healthcare of populations in the rural and informal sectors. It is backed by a 10-year Health and Social Development Plan for 2014-2023, which aims at increasing insurance coverage to 20% of the target population and, in the long-term, universal health coverage. In this context, UTM began to redefine its strategies to improve its capacity and political position in the perspective of shouldering responsibility in achieving universal health coverage. At an operational level, it produced an internal organisation reform plan for 2014-2016. Organisation and individual capacity building was essential to enable the implementation of this plan. Experts mobilised by SOCIEUX worked with the UTM staff on outlining scenarios for strategic options and organisational structure. To do this, they started by assessing the existing institutional strategy and corporate capacities. An outline of the needed structures and competences followed. A first draft of a guideline to develop the UTM’s Strategic Development Plan resulted from this work, which set preliminary core objectives, mission, vision and main working axes for the UTM.
Support for the set up of universal health insurance
- Start activities
- oct-2015
- End activities
- sep-2016
- Partner Institution
- Institut National d’Assurance Maladie (INAM)
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional Strengthening
- Code
- 2015-09
- Description
- Experts mobilized from France and Lebanon delivered an analysis of Togo’s Institut National d’Assurance Maladie (INAM)’s institutional organization and capacities. The assessment focused on the challenges faced by INAM in view of the extension of health coverage, clarified the institutional responsibilities, while identifying issues requiring further technical assistance to INAM, such as the preparation of a strategic plan, the enhancement of internal capacities in the field of “risk management,” and the development of a management information system. The first two topics were then addressed by experts through peer-to-peer exchanges with the relevant INAM’s executives and staff, presenting models and good practices applicable to INAM’s context and needs.