After two webinars on the South African Child Support Grant and the Uruguayan Family Allowances, the 3rd webinar of the Series is dedicated to Mongolia’s Universal Child Allowance Programme. In this third presentation, Ms. Lakhagvasuren Munkhzul (...
Organiser: United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG, Development Pathways
Social Health Protection (SHP) is a significant package for improvement in health of the people to enhance economic growth. A healthier population is more creative and productive; labor supply increases in the economy when morbidity and mortality rates...
Institutions and agencies involved: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, PIDE
As part of efforts to ensure cheap, accessible, qualitative and out-of-pocket medical services as well as achieve universal health coverage (UHC), the Delta State Government has rolled out a massive contributory but mandatory health insurance programme.
“A sustainable health and care system is achieved by delivering high quality care and improved public health without exhausting natural resources or causing severe ecological damage.” (WHO, 2003). To maintain and enhance the human welfare health...
Institutions and agencies involved: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, PIDE
We are facing an unprecedented economic and health shock due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Current projections indicate economic contractions across a number of low- and middle-income East Asian and Pacific countries. The impact of COVID-19 on the overall...
This Universal Social Protection Brief presents the Colombia's experience on establishing a universal social health protection floor for all. It includes the main lessons learned, information on the structure of the health system, the major breakthrough...
Institutions and agencies involved: International Labour Organization, ILO
$300 million loan is linked to reforms that will help improve expenditures and cover the uninsured The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $300 million loan for Peru as part of a program to modernize the management of the health sector,...
The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) will spend Sh2 billion annually to enrol over 360,000 senior citizens by 2022. Dubbed the Health Insurance Subsidy Programme, the scheme is part of efforts to achieve Universal Health Care (UHC). It includes...
Simultaneous interpretation in English, French, German and Spanish. This webinar is organized in collaboration with the ISSA Technical Commission on Insurance against Employment Accidents and Occupational Diseases (TC Work Injury). Over the past few...
Organiser: International Social Security Association, ISSA
COVID-19 has done more than throw economies, livelihoods and societies into chaos, it has also given us more than a pause for thought on how our societies are constructed. The fundamentals of governance, development, inequality and economics are all...
Publisher: United Nations Development Programme, UNDP
