Agenda
14.00 – 14.10
Opening by Toon Bullens
14.10 – 14.30
The Task Force Health Care. By Sierd Hoekstra
The Task Force Health Care (TFHC) is a cooperation between the Dutch government, medical technological industry, NGO’s and knowledge and educational institutions. Hoekstra, board member of the TFHC, will give a presentation on the Task Force Health Care and its activities. He will point out TFHC’s activities in relation to health insurances and discuss were both platforms meet and might possibly strengthen each other.
14.30 – 14.50
Microfinance and health insurance: a good match? By Noor Tromp
Community-based health insurance schemes are not always efficient in providing health insurance. They sometimes lack the capacity to reach the poor and organize a scheme efficiently. Microfinance institutions are known for their large client-base, effective distribution channels and knowledge about the target group. Could they play a significant role in providing health insurance? Findings from a literature study on three cases in India, Bangladesh and Benin will be presented.
14.50 – 15.10
The influence of social capital on willingness to join micro health insurances. By Nicolien van den Berg
Evidence shows that social capital is positively related to the willingness to join micro health insurances. Van den Berg will talk in more detail about the concept of social capital and how to measure its relation to willingness to join micro health insurances. Moreover consequences of this positive relationship for the implementation of micro health insurances will be discussed.
15.10 – 15.30
MillenniumBattle Winners Take on Health Insurance: Share Your Care. By Anouk Post
Last January four master students of the University of Amsterdam won the MillenniumBattle, a competition organized by the National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO), with an innovative idea concerning health insurances for developing countries. During a fieldtrip with Cordaid to Uganda they explored the feasibility of their plan. The initial idea, bottlenecks, opportunities and feasibility of the plan will be presented.
15.30 – 16.00
Panel debate with experts Menno Pradhan, Francis Andoh and Orsolya Farkas
16.00 Drinks
Speakers
Sierd Hoekstra
Sierd Hoekstra, MSc, is senior partner at AMPC International Health Consultants b.v., since 2006. Before starting as an international health consultant he has worked as a facility manager in a number of Dutch Hospitals. As a health consultant he is developing and supervising medical infrastructural projects in developing and upcoming countries. Field studies in rural as well as in urban areas for construction, rehabilitation and equipping of small and larger hospitals is the main subject of his work. With aid of international financing many projects have been successful in a.o. Tanzania, Ecuador, India and China. Since 2008 he is board member of the Task Force Health Care, a Dutch platform of the medical equipment industry, consultancy and engineering firms.
Noor Tromp
Noor Tromp studies Health Technology Assessment, in combination with a minor in International Health and Business & Economics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She has international research and working experience in Asia and West-Africa. Currently, she assists on the literature review evolved by three organizations within the Platform for Health Insurance for the Poor. The research she will present today was conducted during an internship at Cordaid and Oxfam Novib last year.
Nicolien van den Berg
Mrs van den Berg is a physiotherapist from profession who worked both in The Netherlands as abroad (i.e. Iceland). Were she first practiced psychosomatic physiotherapy, she later specialized in movement psychotherapy at Free University in Amsterdam. After years of running her own private clinic, she studied Public Health at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and graduated in Health, Economics, Policy and Law. Now, she works as a consultant in the field of in health policy for Aduard Advies BV.
Anouk Post
Ms Post will represent the winning team of the MillenniumBattle of 2008, a team consisting of four students from the University of Amsterdam (students Beta-Gamma, Social Geography and Biology). They came up with the idea of the ‘Share-your-Care policy’: every month 3 euros of your monthly health care premium goes to people in a developing country to support their health care insurance. With this idea they hope to support a sustainable health insurance scheme in the developing country.
Panel Members
Menno Pradhan
Menno Pradhan is an economist who focuses on impact evaluation of health and education interventions in developing countries. He holds a PhD from Tilburg University, and has since then worked at the Free University in Amsterdam, Cornell University and the World Bank.
He has investigated the effects of health insurance, social funds, teacher training and early childhood development interventions on human development outcomes. He also has investigated poverty more broadly, by including dimension such as subjective poverty, health inequality and conflict.
Francis-Xavier Andoh Adjei
Mr Andoh-Adjei is the Deputy Director of Operations and National Schemes Coordinator of the National Health insurance Scheme in Ghana from September 2005 to date. I is in charge of supervision, monitoring and coordination of the district mutual health insurance schemes and the regional M&E offices of the National Health insurance Authority. Prior to that, he was the Special Assistant (2003-2005) to a former Minister of Health under whose watch the National Health Insurance law was passed. Currently he is enrolled in the International Course in Health Development at the Royal Tropical Institute.
Orsolya Farkas
Ms Farkas holds a M.Sc. in Public Affairs with a specialization in Development Studies from the Princeton University. She has worked several years as a Country Manager with the Council of Europe Development Bank financing small enterprises and social projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Currently she is working for Triple Jump Fund Management as Investment Officer for East and Central Africa. Her portfolio includes Micro Financing Institutes in Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.