Projects and references

Niger's Solidarity-Health-Sahel Initiative (the I3S project, ‘Initiative Solidarité-Santé-Sahel’) supports the efforts of the government and its partners to achieve the MDGs. Its overall objective is to strengthen and ensure the sustainability of free child health care from 0 to 5 years old, and its specific objectives are to: i) simplify and secure the invoice circuit by deconcentrating the validation and payment of invoices to departmental or regional level; ii) improve the monitoring, control and governance of the system for exemption from payment of care at all levels, and; iii) establish innovative, sustainable funding mechanisms. It will work in synergy with the interventions of all actors involved, in order to consolidate the existing or planned child welfare system.

The OPDBS project is part of the first component of the Kosovo Health Project (KHP) aimed at strengthening the capacity of the Ministry of  Health (MoH) and the Health Insurance Fund (HIF) to implement mandatory health insurance and to improve the quality and efficiency of health services, as part of the reform of the mandatory health insurance in Kosovo.
The main objectives of the project Outsourcing Outpatient Drug Benefit Scheme is to provide the MoH and HIF with the technical assistance to efficiently establish, sustain and implement the Kosovo outpatient drug benefit scheme, in order to ensure access to quality and affordable medicines to the entire population of Kosovo and thus decrease the out-of-pocket spending related to the purchase of medicines in the country.

Under this contract, the Ministry plans to computerise part of this system, mainly concerning the electronic medical file (EMF). Once it has been introduced, the EMF, as well as being a source of strategic, privileged information for the decision-making and health information system, will be used as an operational tool with advanced features, designed to improve the quality of care and operational management of hospital services. It should contribute to improving management tools by making information accessible to health managers and professionals, at operational as much as strategic level.

This project provides ad hoc technical assistance to the Health Sector Policy Support Project in Burundi - ‘Amagara Meza’. It has two objectives: support the establishment and operation of a future multi-donor basket fund for the sector, and support the development of a national health financing strategy.
Technical assistance is being provided to the Directorate-General for Resources and the Directorate for Planning through regular expertise in accounting and human resources, and ad hoc support in health financing and actuarial services.