HFG Project Sessions at GH Mini-U

Community-based Health Insurance and Universal Health Coverage: Lessons from Ethiopia

Hailu Zelelew, Jeanna Holtz

Session Three (2:00 - 3:00 PM) | Health Systems | Room 407

Governance in the Third Dimension: Science Fiction or Science Fact?

Elaine Baruwa, Matt Kukla, Awa Dieng, Jodi Charles

Session Four (3:15-4:45 PM) | Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health| Room 407

A Tisket, a Tasket, is MNCH in your Benefits Basket?

Jeanna Holtz, Laurel Hatt, Amanda Folsom, Sharon Nakhimovsky, Lauren Peterson

Session Four (3:15-4:45 PM) | Health Systems | Room 311

Community-based Health Insurance and Universal Health Coverage: Lessons from Ethiopia

Session Three (2:00 - 3:00 PM)

Room 407

In the last two decades, Ethiopia has expanded access to health services. However, health service utilization remains low. Ethiopia embarked on implementation of social health insurance for formal sector employees and CBHI for citizens in the informal sector to enhance access to health care by providing financial protection at the time of illness. Starting in January 2011, CBHI was piloted in 13 districts across four regions. These pilot districts cover over 300,000 households with a total population of about 1.8 million; enrollment in CBHI reached over 50% of the eligible households. The political and technical process of designing and implementing CBHI, along with empirical evidence from an evaluation of the recently completed pilot, lessons learned and resulting recommendations will be presented during this session.

Hailu Zelelew, Jeanna Holtz

Governance in the Third Dimension: Science Fiction or Science Fact?

Session Four (3:15-4:45 PM)

Room 407

Strengthening health governance can significantly improve the effectiveness and sustainability of reforms and, in turn, achieve better health system performance. Yet despite its importance, health governance investments are often overlooked. Health governance is frequently misunderstood by governments and the global health community, because governance in practice (vs. theory) is poorly defined and difficult to operationalize. In this session, participants will learn how Haiti has defined and is addressing dimensions of governance for health financing and human resource reforms. Participants will apply these dimensions of health governance to work/activities that they are involved in, and consider how addressing these dimensions can strengthen health governance in their countries and enhance the impact of health financing, human resource, and service delivery reforms.

Elaine Baruwa, Matt Kukla, Awa Dieng, Jodi Charles

A Tisket, a Tasket, is MNCH in your Benefits Basket?

Session Four (3:15-4:45 PM)

Room 311

Design of the benefits package "who gets covered for what services" can make or break efforts to expand universal health coverage to end preventable maternal and child deaths. The ideal benefits package will consider the local burden of disease, improve economic efficiency, achieve equity, and be politically sustainable. Poorly designed benefit packages cost too much, cover services benefiting only a subset of the population, or risk political backlash. This session presents the benefits packages for Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Death (EPCMD) countries, and the technical and political factors that influence their design. Participants will do an exercise to look at these factors for a sample of countries grappling with the trade-offs for benefit design to address the needs of poor mothers and children.

Jeanna Holtz, Laurel Hatt, Amanda Folsom, Sharon Nakhimovsky, Lauren Peterson