Açôes em Health Policy
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Review and completion of the legal framework of health insurance
- 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.
Feasibility study on the introduction of mandatory health insurance in North Kivu
- Start activities
- 16-5-2018
- End activities
- 27-5-2018
- Partner Institution
- Division provinciale de la Santé, Nord-Kivu
- Type of Assistance
- Policy development
- Code
- 2018-10
The role of a national health insurance institution in ensuring quality of services
- 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)”
- 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
- 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.