P4H – Global Network for Health Financing and Social Protection

The overall goal of P4H is to contribute to sustainable development and health for all in low and middle-income countries by supporting them in their efforts to build robust health systems and achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

P4H focuses on the development of effective, equitable and sustainable health financing and social health protection mechanisms in order to provide quality health services according to people’s needs, protect people from health threats and financial hardship due to ill-health, and to unfold their economic and social potential.

Ultimate beneficiaries of P4H are populations in low and middle-income countries; in particular those who do not have access to comprehensive quality health services they need and/or do not benefit from financial protection.

Direct clients are governments striving to build equitable and sustainable health financing or social health protection mechanisms.

Indirect beneficiaries are P4H partners who create higher impact through coordination and harmonisation of their approaches.

The objective is that governments are able to build sustainable health financing mechanisms for resilient health systems and UHC.

To do so, following outcomes are expected:

1.    Strengthened national health financing capacities through coordinated technical advisory and other services provided by multi- and bilateral partners.

2.    External funding through global mechanisms (The Global Fund) better aligned with and embedded in national health financing strategies

3.    Fit-for-purpose P4H network playing a lead catalytic role in countries and at global level.

Resultados previstos:  

National health financing capacities:
-  Joint capacity development of partner countries
   on resource mobilization and pooling as well as
   on purchasing of health services
-  Knowledge sharing (through webinars,
   conferences, joint papers, P4H platform).

Alignment of external funds:
-  Improved impact of P4H Focal Points by
   increasing their skill sets in external funding
   processes.
- Facilitated channelling of global funding through
  national financing mechanisms.
- Joint strategic deployment and funding of focal
  points in priority countries. 

Reformed P4H network:
·   Roll out constituency based governance model.
·  Increased accountability of the network and its
   implementing bodies, including the Coordination
   Desk and focal points.
- Developed joint Monitoring&Evaluation framework.

Resultados de las fases anteriores:  

·  Network growth from 13 members (2017) to 18 (2020) newly joint by China, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Morocco, and Russia.

·  15 countries benefited from P4H Focal Points of which two newly financed by SDC in Chad (Oct. 2018) and Myanmar (Aug. 2019). In-country health financing experts capacitate Governments to advance UHC.

·  In Chad, the Focal Point supported the development of the law on the national health insurance system, approved by the Parliament.

·  The Leadership4UHC programme completed its 2019-2020 cycle with high level governmental participants from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Niger, Senegal, Myanmar, Pakistan and Vietnam. Follow-up activities in Nepal and Chad were intensified.

·  A political economy repository of 111 analytical documents, reviews and country case studies and publications was created.

- P4H network governance reform is initiated and informed by a 2020 external evaluation of the network (e.g. constituency-based steering group).