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Outcome 1.1

Output 1.1.1

Completed

Product/Service: Piloting family practice model in through an integrated district health approach

Technical Area: Service Delivery

Deliverables: Family Practice based PHC model implemented in pilot district/s.

Output 1.1.1

Completed

Product/Service: Establishment of quality/patient safety performance measures

Technical Area: Service Delivery

Deliverables: Safety and quality measures are adopted at health facilites implementing Univesal Health Insurance

Output 1.1.1

Completed

Product/Service: Development of UHC Priority Benefit Package to support SHIL implementation

Technical Area: Service Delivery

Deliverables: A UHC Priority Benefit Package developed.

Output 1.1.1

Completed

Product/Service: Establish a quality service model based on Primary Health Care and comprehensive service package

Technical Area: Service Delivery

Deliverables: Quality primary care services via Family health model, Support referral to secondary and above level of services, Support quality of provided services

Output 1.1.1

Completed

Product/Service: Establish Integrated service model

Technical Area: Service Delivery

Deliverables: Establish Family practice, referral to higher levels of specialized services

Output 1.1.1

Completed

Product/Service: IDHS model supported,Devlepment of planning guidelines and standars, guiding on service delivery infrastructure needs and securing the deployment of needed human resources and helath technologies

Technical Area: Service Delivery

Deliverables: Baking up local helath authorities in UHI implementation of the first phase of UHI

Output 1.1.4

Completed

Product/Service: Preparing for organizational and institutional satablishment for the newly developed institutions; health care delivery, Financing and Monitoring plus the MoHP

Technical Area: Governance

Deliverables: Institutional capacity development for the newly devleoped institutions, supporting their organizational development and coordination

Output 1.1.4

Completed

Product/Service: Effective health Governance

Technical Area: Governance

Deliverables: Support Institutional transformation, Provide legal revision of UHI law and bylaws

Output 1.1.5

Completed

Product/Service: Situation analysis on human resources for health completed

Technical Area: Health Workforce

Deliverables: Assissing the current situation and challenges facing HrH in Egypt

Output 1.1.5

Completed

Product/Service: Development of health automated solution for Human Resourced for Helath

Technical Area: Health Workforce

Deliverables: Automated tool for HrH developed

Output 1.1.5

Completed

Product/Service: Strengthening technical capacity of hospital care management

Technical Area: Health Workforce

Deliverables: Capacities for hospital managers developed

Outcome 1.2

Output 1.2.1

Completed

Product/Service: Costing and pricing models for purchasing to inform and comply with actuarial projections

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: A costing exercise of PHC and Hospital Care services finalized to inform Provider Payment Methods development.

Output 1.2.2

Completed

Product/Service: Support developing costing methodology, costing tool, and capacity building for estimating the cost of preventive services at public facilities.

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: Costing methodology, costing tool and preliminary estimates are developed for preventive services at public facilities

Output 1.2.2

Completed

Product/Service: Support developing medium-term projections for domestic health expenditure in Health. 

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: Medium-term expenditure projections are adopted as part of the National Health Strategy

Output 1.2.2

Completed

Product/Service: Developing/piloting provider payment methods and contractual modalities

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: Developing/piloting provider payment methods and contractual modalities

Output 1.2.3

Completed

Product/Service: Generating evidence on financial coverage indicators to monitor UHC

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: updated figures on financial proteciton indicators

Outcome 4.1

Output

Completed

Product/Service: Standard Medical records and Electronic medical records systems are piloted at facilities implementing Universal health insurance

Technical Area: Information Systems

Deliverables: Functional medical reccords in health facilties of Governorates implementing UHI

Output

Completed

Product/Service: Establishment of helath information System including master facility list, master indicator list, Civil Registration and vital statistics

Technical Area: Information Systems

Deliverables: Supporting health information system

Activity details

Outcome 1.1

Output 1.1.1

Ongoing

Product/Service: Health care delivery and integrated service delivery model

Technical Area: Service Delivery

Deliverables: Capacity building for FM. Support provision of services at primary health care model based on family health model. Support the integration of services as mental health and NCDs into FHM, plus the integration of vertical programs into PHC package. Supporting integrates service delivery model for realizing Universal Health Coverage. Support the secondary and tertiary levels of care and advancing the hospitals sector. Support community engagement in health matters and Raising community awareness. Implement UHI in insurance Governorates, rapid assessment of HS structure, develop the implementation plan. Support education, regulation and practice for nurses for SHI and development of framework for strengthening nursing functions. Health care delivery and integrated service delivery model. Support development of staff capacity on UHI, assess training needs, develop training program- study tours, on job monitoring and evaluation, visiting consultants. Supporting integrates service delivery model for realizing Universal Health Coverage Support provision of services at primary health care model based on family health model

Output 1.1.2

Ongoing

Product/Service: Support the activities for TB Control and Elimination as per the EMR Strategic Plan 2016-2020

Technical Area: NCDs & Mental Health

Deliverables: Support implementation of required operation research in TB CUs Support development of national guidelines and conducting national on clinical training on prevention, care and treatment of TB

Output 1.1.4

Ongoing

Product/Service: Supporting the positive interrelationships between newly developed organizations for UHC , and more reliance in intersectoral collaboration

Technical Area: Governance

Deliverables: Technical backup and capacity building for the newly developed institutions

Output 1.1.4

Ongoing

Product/Service: Plan to improve Health System Governance as needed to successful implementation of UHI while insuring Equity, Gender & Human Rights approach.

Technical Area: Governance

Deliverables: Support development of governance structures as part of UHI implementation Plan to improve Health System Governance as needed to successful implementation of UHI while insuring Equity, Gender & Human Rights approach. Support the model of health facilities governance Legal advice in relation of the UHI law and the related Institutional transformation Support national health policies, strategies and plans. Support development of governance structures as part of UHI implementation Leadership in Multisectoral collaboration between MoHP and non-health sector stakeholders

Output 1.1.5

Ongoing

Product/Service: The country is planning to develop and install a comprehensive human resources plan for health will be based on data disaggregated by sex, place of residence (urban/rural) and subnational geography

Technical Area: Health Workforce

Deliverables: Support the development of HrH strategy for the health workforce in Egypt Conduct training to support human resources Support the development of observatory for Human Resources for health Support the development of situational analysis for the human resources for the health sector in Egypt Support the development of observatory for Human Resources for health

Outcome 1.2

Output 1.2.1

Ongoing

Product/Service: Generate evidence on Key areas of health financing to inform and monitor national health policies

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: Generate evidence on Health Expenditure through regular update of NHA. Collaborate with UHIA, MOHP, MOF, GAHC, MOSS, CAPMAS and others in identification of targeting criteria for the exempted populations. Updating Financial protection estimates based on the latest Household surveys. Build capacities and support national counterparts in generating evidence for key aspects, including studies on hospital efficiency, etc.

Output 1.2.1

On track

Product/Service: Development of a strategic framework for adopting Economic Evaluation for Health Priority Setting for the League of Arab States.

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: Strategy document adopted by League of Arab States on adopting Economic Evaluation for Health Priority Setting

Output 1.2.1

On track

Product/Service: Support the Universal Health Insurance Authorities in the design and review of the UHIS benefits package

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: A policy note is developed on benefit package design and review under the UHI system.

Output 1.2.1

Ongoing

Product/Service: Increase predominant reliance on prepaid compulsory financing mechanisms for Health.

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: Support mechanisms for copayments and rational use of health services that ensure financial protection. Engage with the MOF, MOHP and UHIO to identify various funding sources Support the government transition towards programme based budget Collaborate with UN agencies, including ILO in Social protection floor initiatives Support the update of Financial (actuarial) studies for the health system

Output 1.2.1

Ongoing

Product/Service: Private sector engagement for UHC

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: Regulating Private sector beyond UHI governorates Engage private sector in service provision of the UHI using strategic purchasing tools, e.g. Provider payment mechanisms, Pricing policies, contractual arrangements, etc. Technically support, and ensure the regulation of the complementary and supplementary roles of Private/voluntary insurance.

Output 1.2.1

Ongoing

Product/Service: Ration the provision health services

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: Support evidence based processes for the design of Benefit package

Output 1.2.1

Ongoing

Product/Service: Supporting the implementation of Universal Health Insurance with the subsequent separation of financing from provision of the services. This will inlude technical assistance on operational framework

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: Institutionalization and capacity building for UHI stakeholders on Insurance functions, including Claims processing, enrollments, verification mechanisms, etc. The development of various contractual modalities for the UHI. Policy support on Strategic purchasing of the new UHI. Regular development of Provider payment system for UHI. Technical assistance and institutionalization of costing and pricing framework within the UHI system and beyond.

Output 1.2.3

On track

Product/Service: Country capacities strengthened in priority-setting and Health Technology Assessment 

Technical Area: Health Financing

Deliverables: 1 year-long Extended Training Programme on Advanced Economic Evaluation and HTA.

Outcome 1.3

Output 1.3.1

Ongoing

Product/Service: Strengthen regulations and install mechanisms related to efficient procurement of medicines and medical technologies including assistive technology. Supporting regulatory capacities and improve access

Technical Area: Pharma and Medical Products

Deliverables: Support prequalification of medicines authority and establishment and functioning of HT governance body Establishing standards and system for safe medication practices and operating Drug utilization review program and medication errors reporting systems Situation assessment and development of HT policy, management and Assessment system

Output 1.3.1

Ongoing

Product/Service: The country intends to restructure the pharmaceutical sector

Technical Area: Pharma and Medical Products

Deliverables: Support development of a national program for promoting, standardizing and regulating the practice of clinical pharmacy Capacity building and institutional development of Egyptian drug authority Pharmaco-economic research and Staff capacity building Consultancies, Convene policy dialogue and Staff capacity building

Output 1.3.2

Ongoing

Product/Service: The country plans to strengthen regulations in the medicines and pharmaceutical sector and to increase dependence on strategic purchasing

Technical Area: Pharma and Medical Products

Deliverables: - Assessment and convening activities to strengthen national efforts to combat counterfeit medicine Drug Utilization Research system - Consultancies, Convene policy dialogue and Staff capacity building - Conduction of the WHO Covid 19 vaccine production mission

Output 1.3.3

Ongoing

Product/Service: Shift dependence on rational decision making for medicine and health technologies supplies and dispensing

Technical Area: Pharma and Medical Products

Deliverables: Raising institutional capacity in IP functions related to pharmaceuticals and health technology Build national capacities in HTA Support supply chain management system, drug information system, pharmaco-vigilance and other drug management function Consultancies, Convene policy dialogue and Staff capacity building in pre qualifications

Outcome 4.1

Output 4.1.1

Ongoing

Product/Service: Support country to improve monitoring and evaluation of service provision and utilization and to ensure transparency and introduce accountability mechanisms

Technical Area: Information Systems

Deliverables: Support the CRVS through automation, validation and capacity building Capacity building and consultancies to support health information system Support development of functional medical records and establishment of electronic medical records Support HIS through master lists and coding including for diseases, interventions and others Support the CRVS through automation, validation and capacity building+B54