Since the civil war and the Khmer Rouge era services within the public health sector remain insufficient, especially for the poor. The ‘Social Health Protection Programme’ has been implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, GIZ since 2009 with the aim to improve the quality, access to, and use of, health services.
The programme interventions include improving the quality in health centres and hospitals by supporting medical treatment guidelines, adequate staff training and regular performance checks against uniform quality standards. Furthermore, the programme supports the development of solidarity-based health insurance mechanisms that ultimately enable all Cambodians to access quality health care when needed without financial burden. Finally, the programme seeks to strengthen accountability to improve client orientation in the health system and involve citizens as well as sub-national councils in health sector decisionmaking processes.
The “Promising Practices” series presents development cooperation programs that have implemented elements of a human rights-based approach. The individual publications describe the measures implemented by the project, its impact and lessons learned.
