Building bridges between social protection and health sectors
Overcoming silos between long-established policy sectors is one of the most arduous challenges when it comes to technical assistance in the fields of social health protection (SHP) and health financing (HF). Yet, SHP provides a rights-based approach to reaching the objective of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) that ensures financial protection and effective access to health care services. Since 2021, the SDC-International Labour Organization (ILO) project “Strengthening social health protection through the Providing for Health (P4H) Network” works at better aligning the support of development partners around national stakeholders, while asserting the role of SHP to reach both UHC and Universal Social Protection (USP).
