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![A group photo of participants after the training session](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/SEC_4943_Nigeria%20Forum%20Training.jpg?itok=TjwEOEMC)
The Forum of CEOs of State Social Health Insurance Agencies in Nigeria, supported by LHSS, trained 14 newly appointed SSHIA CEOs from various states. Experienced CEOs and health experts shared insights on managing health insurance ecosystems, advancing Universal Health Coverage (UHC), leveraging ICT, and stakeholder management. The sessions, particularly beneficial for those without a health insurance background, aim to foster cross-learning and support Nigeria's goal of achieving UHC by 2030.
![Stakeholders convene workshop on social contracting in Namibia](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/Namibia_Social%20Contracting%20Workshop_0.jpg?itok=9TkydwAd)
In Namibia, The Ministry of Health and Social Services conducted a comprehensive training session, with LHSS support, aimed at enhancing the capacity of its senior staff members. The focus of the training was social contracting, with particular emphasis on need identification and the intricate processes involved in contracting civil society organizations through social contracting mechanisms.
The Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia, with support from the LHSS Project, convened stakeholders in Windhoek to validate the costing of the Essential Health Services Package.
![Jordan's CPD Online Training Course](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/Jordan%20photo%20correction%20%283%29.png?itok=rl6xx-9D)
The Ministry of Health and USAID's LHSS Project launches the Continuing Professional Development Online Training Platform in Jordan, providing health care professionals with accredited courses for certification and relicensing.
![Timor-Leste Health Labor Market Analysis](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-04/Timor-Leste%20Health%20Labor%20Market%20Analysis.png?itok=c1Uv3VZB)
The health labor market analysis aims to provide an overview and analysis of the current status of the health workforce in Timor-Leste. The findings will serve as an essential resource for the MOH in building and managing a health workforce that is fit-for-purpose and fit-for-practice, as it develops the next iteration of the multi-year NSPHRH.
![Assessment of Private Health Sector Engagement in Timor-Leste](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-04/Assessment%20of%20Private%20Health%20Sector%20Engagement%20in%20Timor-Leste.png?itok=sedPMK6x)
This report summarizes the findings of said assessment conducted by the MOH’s newly established Cabinet for Licensing and Registration of Health Activities with support from the Activity.
![Experiences in Implementing Health Worker Productivity Reforms in Timor-Leste](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-04/Experiences%20in%20Implementing%20Health%20Worker%20Productivity%20Reforms%20in%20Timor-Leste.png?itok=bMAW5v4i)
USAID and the MOH collaborated to improve health workforce management in Timor-Leste, focusing on job descriptions and evaluations. Moving forward, in-person training and institutionalization are recommended for sustainable implementation, aiming to enhance health care services and employee development.
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USAID | Timor-Leste and the Ministry of Health launched a groundbreaking initiative to bolster professional competence of health professionals to deliver and improve quality of health care services in Timor-Leste.
![Nigeria success story Feb 22](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/success%20story%20Nigeria%20Feb%2022.png?itok=gO8FgiIG)
Improved referral system helps those experiencing poverty in Nasarawa State to better access to secondary care.
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This brief describes opportunities to improve financial protection programs using behavior change approaches. The Practice Spotlights Social and Behavior Change series supports USAID’s Vision for Health System Strengthening 2030 by exploring how social and behavior change approaches can contribute to countries’ health system strengthening efforts.
![Health System Strengthening Evidence Gap Map: Social and Behavior Change](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/Health%20System%20Strengthening%20Evidence%20Gap%20Map%20Social%20and%20Behavior%20Change.png?itok=bepccLJZ)
This two-pager focuses on USAID’s Learning Question 6, "What are key behavioral outcomes that indicate a functioning, integrated health system? In what ways can integrated health system strengthening approaches explicitly include social and behavior change?"
![Health System Strengthening Evidence Gap Map Integration and Engagement of Local Voices](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/Annotation%202024-01-26%20124126.png?itok=Lhx1iW7n)
This two-pager focuses on USAID’s Learning Question 4, “What are effective and sustainable mechanisms or processes to integrate local, community, sub-national, national, and regional voices, priorities, and contributions into USAID’s health system strengthening efforts?”
![Improving the Primary Health Care System through Peer Learning in Urban Bangladesh](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/Annotation%202024-01-25%20152755.jpg?itok=BpHyv8wF)
The video showcases the success of peer learning events held in the Sylhet and Rajshahi regions, where city corporations and district municipalities came together to share experiences and discuss different approaches to strengthening primary health care.
![Transforming Primary Health Care in Urban Bangladesh](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/Annotation%202024-01-25%20152241.jpg?itok=6KecFzD_)
This video highlights the collaborative efforts between LHSS and six district municipalities from Sylhet and Rajshahi divisions to strengthen primary health care systems in urban Bangladesh.
![USAID SALUTIA news](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/usaid%20salutia.jpg?itok=6sv-ps7q)
To strengthen institutional capacities in the Mandatory Health Quality Assurance System of the Ministry of Health of Cúcuta, the Communidades Saludables of USAID and the Fundación Salutia delivered the Health Quality Management Model with its technological tool TGUÍA – IV.