CHF best practices workshop

CHF best practices workshop Igunga District Council Reaching the Informal Economy Sector Dr. G. Kisila Ag. DMO CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

CHF Igunga - Basic Information • Total Population of the District: 325,547 • 51,176 households and 637 hamlets in 26 wards • CHF established in 1996, since then: • CHF contributions collected Tshs 270,370,000 • User fees: Tshs 103,608,618 • Matching Fund received: Tshs 19,655,000 • NHIF funds received: Tshs 1,744,077 • Total cost-sharing revenue: Tshs 598,510,963 • Total financial Position Nov. 2006: Tshs 125,637,431 CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

CHF Igunga - Collaboration with Co-operative Societies • How it started: • District leadership agreed that there was need to establish a task force • Its main function was to mobilize communities towards developmental activities • Task force was formulated under the District Commissioner and the DED in a multi-sectoral approach CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

CHF Igunga - Collaboration with Co-operative Societies • Task force performance and tools: • The team mobilized 19 co-operative societies to pay CHF premiums for their members • Sensitization involved co-operative society members and leaders, social groups, influential people, religious leaders, village councils and ward development committees • Advantages of CHF transmitted in Sensitization • burden of user fees reduced • community attracted to join co-operatives - hence more CHF members • If cooperatives invest in health of their members - likely to enhance economic activity of their workers CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

CHF Igunga - Collaboration with Co-operative Societies • Next Steps: • Achieve consensus on collaboration between CHF and cooperatives by: • holding meetings with the cooperative’s members • principle agenda to discuss and make decisions on the need for paying CHF premiums • agreement reached on the benefit of members receiving health services after cooperatives have paid premiums on their behalf CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

CHF Igunga - Collaboration with Co-operative Societies • Implementation: • Started 2001 • 8 cooperative societies got involved since and • 2277 members have joined CHF through the 8 cooperative societies CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

CHF Igunga - Collaboration with Co-operative Societies • Benefits • Strengthening of CHF sustainability • Promotes co-operative society members to enroll • Increases community participation in the financing of health • Empowers CHF to expand health packages e.g. it enables referral of CHF patients to Nkinga Mission Hospital supporting each member with Tshs 30,000 per referral! CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

CHF Igunga - Collaboration with Co-operative Societies • Constraints: • Draughts and food shortages cause low production - cooperatives may fail to meet their goals • Poor services in some health facilities due to shortages of staff and drugs - cause cooperatives to refuse payment for premiums • Delays of receiving levy from companies which by crops is also a problem CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

CHF Igunga - Collaboration with Co-operative Societies • Way forward: • Improve health services • Purchase a large quantity of essential drugs at district level by using CHF funds. • Shorten the long distance from one health facility to another by mobilizing the community to build new health facilities CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

CHF Igunga - Conclusion Marketing CHF through cooperative societies, economic groups - informal and formal sectors - will ensure community health financing’s sustainability -particularly of CHF CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

Thanks for listening! CHF best practice WS, Golden Tulip Hotel, DSM

CHF best practices workshop