Improving financial protection through expanding access to medicines. This includes the development of Drug Regulatory Agency institutional strategy and capacity building, working on procurement and pricing to improve access to selected Essential Medicines, e.g. to address high burden from NCDs.
Price regulation and practices are improved leading to decreased patient cost sharing to CVD related essential medicines in additional drug package. Additionally, the new regulation for the selection of medicines into the Additional Drug Package (ADP) is being implemented. The various forms required to launch this new process have been developed. The submission of applications in accordance with the new regulation is planned to start in January 2024.
Conduction series of capacity-building workshops for strategic partner organizations on communication and media relations
Workshops addressed to increase capacity of key staff of partner organizations in the sphere of communication and overall media relations in order to convey UHC messages and strengthen media relations and experience.
MoH stewardship capacity to lead and implement state health reform program in a coordinated way is supported: Joint Annual Review of MoH and DPs conducted
, In 2023 MoH has requested support from WHO with development of the second phase action plan 2024-2030 (Action plan) of SHP based on the analysis of the action plan 2019-2023 implementation progress, lessons learnt during the pandemic. To support this process WHO worked with MoH to create the Inter-Sectoral Working Group (ISWG) and Expert Group (EG), prepare the outline for development of the SHP Action plan. On 30 March 2023, this Outline was presented by the MoH to development partners with a request for their support. SHP EG conducted analysis of implementation progress and the pandemic impact and lessons to take into account in the next phase action plan by the 9 SHP priority areas. The ISWG&EG retreat was organized on 12-15 October 2023 to put together the analysis conducted by each priority, discuss the cross-cutting enablers, prioritization of accelerators to prepare the first draft of SHP seven years action plan and amendments to SHP. The first ISWG meeting on 21 November 2023 approved eh SHP analysis for 2019-2023, the draft plans for priorities and the accelerators.
Support MHIF institutional capacity strengthening to scale up the health service purchasing methods for PHC and hospital services toward improving efficiency and coverage of SGBP
Assessment of the governance of strategic purchasing in Kyrgyzstan’s health financing system based on the analysis and synthesis of the institutional capacity strengthening TA in the past 2 years published as a health financing case study (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/governance-for-strategic-purchasing-in-kyrgyzstan-s-health-financing-system)
Organization of a high-level policy dialogue with Vice-Prime-Minister, MoH, MoF, MHIF and WB, German and Swiss development cooperation to discuss the future of the governance of the MHIF.
Policy brief on Health financing in Kyrgyzstan: obstacles and opportunities to improve the response to Covid19 with a set of policy recommendations on how to address the weaknesses in health financing laid bare by the pandemic produced by WHO CO in collaboration with GDO Barcelona.
TA for strengthening the budget formulation and implementation function of MHIF.
Tableau Business Intelligence software provided to MHIF to analyze and visualize population health indicators and the national, oblast, rayon and even hospital level
Implementation of of Drug Regulatory Agency institutional strategy and capacity building to contribute to increasing of access to Essential Medicines.
Functions carried out by NRA have been strengthened through implementation of Institutional development plan agreed and developed as a result of self-benchmarking of NRA using WHO tool.
Facilitate introduction and establishment of health service costing system of health services to feed in the DRG revision and calculation of health services cost
MHIF uses the data management system to address coverage and bottlenecks, capacity building on case-based payment system and DRG updating, improving scorecards and indicators for monitoring progress towards UHC.
Maintain the technical engagement and monitoring of development of health service delivery Master plan and contribute by providing the assessments and other up-to-date evidence
The health service delivery Master plan provides clear recommendations for optimization of health service delivery
Capacity-building activity for country staff on strengthening internal communication
Capacity-building activity for country staff on strengthening internal communication, foster cultural foster, and enhance technical and administrative processes
Contribute to the policy dialogue on development of the MoH service delivery master plan using the results on hospital safety assessment, emergency medical service assessment results and other up-to-date evidence
Accurate, up-to-date evidence on what works and what does not work regarding health financing reforms for universal coverage is available and shared across countries
Development and dissemination of technical reports, visual materials (posters, flyers, brochures and etc.)
Printing and visual materials (posters, flyers, brochures, and etc.) materials would facilitate the informed decision making and streamline the discussion process during various high-level meetings e.g. Joint Annual Review (JAR) and Thematic weeks as well as the round tables, seminars with participation of wide range of stakeholders.
Developing a roadmap to building complex Quality of Care management system for improving access and quality of need care
The Road Map on quality of care management system provides clear actions and milestones for development of comprehensive, balanced, system of Quality of Care management system
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