Lessons from Rwanda: MLI Countries, Mali and Senegal, Send Delegations to Rwanda for Joint Study Tour on Mutuelles and Performance-Based Health Financing
In the spirit of South-South learning, two participant countries in the Ministerial Leadership Initiative (MLI), Mali and Senegal, recently completed a week long study tour in Rwanda to obtain a deeper understanding of the conceptual underpinnings, operational approaches, and lessons learned from the Rwandan implementation of mutual health insurance schemes and performance-based financing. Mali and Senegal plan to use these lessons to refine their strategies for innovative health financing and risk pooling in order to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals and improve health outcomes.
Rwanda is considered a pioneer of performance-based financing and is one of the only countries worldwide to scale up community-based health insurance, known locally as mutuelles, to a national level. The Mali and Senegal delegations, consisting of senior ministerial leaders and technical experts, are studying the political and technical aspects of Rwanda’s mutuelles and performance-based financing programs, in addition to making district visits to observe the day-to-day operations of these programs. The Rwanda tour is one type of peer sharing opportunity provided through MLI’s five-country learning collaborative.
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