Financial Protection and Improved Access to Health Care: Peer-to-Peer Learning Workshop

Finding Solutions to Common Challenges

February 15-19, 2016

Accra, Ghana

Expected results of the workshop

• Deeper understanding of how to grow and use financial resources to:

• Increase financial protection

• Improve equitable access to priority health services

• Achieve financial sustainability in a trajectory towards UHC

• Identification of concrete actions to take health financing and insurance program to next level

• Strengthened partnerships and coordination across countries, within countries, and between partners

Learning Approaches

• Peer-to-peer learning

• Participatory design of agenda and sessions

• Mix of interactive methods (roundtables, talk shows, break-outs)

• Each session includes state-of-the-art technical framing, country spotlight(s), cross-country discussion

• Country-team approach (cross-institutions, with government & partners) • Development of actions and plans

• UHC Context and Concepts

• Equity

• Financial Protection

• Behavioral Economics

Day 1: Setting

the Stage

• DRM

• Expenditure Management

Day 2: Health Financing:

Two Sides of the Coin

• Ghana’s NHIS: Health Financing Reform in Action

Day 3: Site Visits

• CBHI

• Private Insurance

• Mobile Technology

Day 4: Health

InsuranceCoverage • Intelligent

Health Systems

• Actions

Day 5: Actions

and Measure

ment

Peer-to-Peer

Solutions

Overview of the Week

Actions State-of-the-Art

What success would look like after the workshop

• Implementation of actions identified during workshop

• Monitor progress and impact of actions as we are living in an era where there are:

• Existing and emerging measurement tools and indicators

• Emphasis on using Big Data

• Availability of mobile technology for tracking progress

Thanks and Appreciation for your presence and participation