[afro-nets] Side event to WHA: Meeting on Contracting Experiences

["MMI Thomas Schwarz" <schwarz@medicusmundi.org>]

Dear colleagues,

I invite you to a technical meeting during the World Health Assembly. Would be nice to see you there! Please feel free to contact me directly with questions.

Sincerely,

Thomas Schwarz, Executive Secretary
Medicus Mundi International Network
schwarz@medicusmundi.org – http://www.medicusmundi.org  

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Contracting experiences between non-governmental health facilities and the public health sector in sub-Saharan Africa

Technical Meeting as side event to the 61st World Health Assembly
Thursday, 22 May, 5.30â7.00 p.m., Salle XXII, UN Palais des Nations, Geneva
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Contracting is like a starting train. If you do not catch it, you will remain in the station. It is one thing putting contracts on paper, but implementing is another thing.

Medicus Mundi International (MMI) is an international, pluralistic Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). It groups a dozen different NGOs specialized in the field of Primary Health Care (PHC) and district health systems. One of its strategic priorities is the promotion of the integration of private not for profit (PNFP) health facilities in national health systems.

MMI has been strongly advocating the development of contractual arrangements between private not for profit health facilities and Ministries of Health. In order to promote this approach, MMI organized, in May 1999, a meeting on “Contracting NGOs for Health” as a side event to the 52th World Health Assembly. 

In May 2003, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on “The role of contractual arrangements in improving health systems’ performance” (WHA 56.25) promoted by MMI. 

Five years later, MMI invites you to a technical meeting on contracting experiences. As a side event to the 61st World Health Assembly, the meeting will allow interested WHA delegates and other participants to obtain an insight into some experiences of private not for profit health facilities with contractual arrangements and to discuss technical and political implications of these experiences for the future.

Speakers: 

- Carissa F. Ãtienne, WHO Assistant Director-General, Health Systems and Services
- Jean Perrot, WHO Health Systems Financing
- Bart Criel and Delphine Boulenger, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
- Yves Sossou, AMCES Benin, Member of the MMI Network
- Edson Friday Agaba, Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Uganda
- Guus Eskens, Medicus Mundi International

Meeting website with program and documentation:
http://www.medicusmundi.org/conferences/Geneva2008  

Organizer: 

Medicus Mundi International Network 
Murbacherstrasse 34 â 4013 Basel â Switzerland
Contact: Thomas Schwarz, Executive Secretary
http://www.medicusmundi.org  
Phone +41 61 383 18 11 â  (WHA: +41 78 636 40 71)
mailto:office@medicusmundi.ch