ILO International Training Centre - Social Health Insurance
The course covers the design of a policy on social health insurance and the design of a scheme, provision of health care benefits, financing the insurance, community based health insurance. It is aimed at practitioners such as executives, managers, planners, financial officers and other responsible professionals of health care and health insurance schemes in governement and non-government sectors.
Please register February 13, 2009 at latest. Cost 3,250 euros - some partial fellowships still available.
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FAI launches new website
The Financial Access Initiative (FAI) is a consortium of researchers at NYU, Yale, Harvard and IPA focused on finding answers to how financial sectors can better meet the needs of poor households.
Financial access holds the promise to help low-income individuals in developing countries manage their economic lives and build wealth. The Initiative aims to provide rigorous research on the impacts of financial access and on innovative ways to improve access.
Visit the new website
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