Financial Protection and Improved Access to Health Care: Peer-to-Peer Learning Workshop
Finding Solutions to Common Challenges
February 15-19, 2016
Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel
Accra, Ghana
Hosted by the Ministry of Health of Ghana, Ghana’s National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), this interactive, peer learning workshop will bring together senior delegates from countries at various states of developing or expanding their health insurance programs to exchange experiences and ideas among themselves.
During five days of intense interaction with peers and thought leaders, participants will deepen their knowledge and understanding of practical health financing concepts and promising solutions to common challenges such as how to grow and use financial resources to increase financial protection, improve equitable access to priority health services, and achieve financial sustainability in a universal health coverage (UHC) context.
Workshop Objectives
- Deepen knowledge and understanding of practical health financing concepts and promising solutions to common challenges, focusing on how to grow and use financial resources to increase financial protection, improve equitable access to priority health services, and achieve financial sustainability in a UHC context.
- Identify specific actions that countries can take to effectively balance revenue mobilization and expenditure management, drawing on the knowledge and peer relationships built over the course of the workshop.
- Strengthen partnership between USAID missions, WHO, and partner Governments, and amongst Government partners, on health financing, identifying technical priorities, knowledge gaps, and needs for future support and continued learning.
This workshop was organized by the Ministry of Health of Ghana, the NHIA, the USAID Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Project, USAID, and the World Health Organization (WHO).
