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Analysis of the implementation of a social protection initiative to admit the poorest of the poor to mutual health funds in Burkina Faso

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  • Kadio Kadidiatou
  • Kafando Yamba
  • Ouédraogo Aboubacar
  • Valéry Ridde

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To enable mutual health funds to extend coverage to poor people, the Mutual Health Support Network (Réseau d’appui aux mutuelles de santé – RAMS) in 2012 launched an initiative in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Action and Solidarity (ministère de l’Action sociale et de la Solidarité nationale – MASSN) in Burkina Faso. This article reveals difficulties in the initiative's implementation, which resulted in the continued exclusion of poor people from health services. Poor people were required not only to make co‐payments, but also to accept a limitation of coverage to three episodes of illness per year. Additional challenges to service takeup were the geographical distance of the homes of some beneficiaries covered by a mutual fund agreement from a health centre and the failure by some health workers and managers of pharmacies to recognize the mutual membership card. A formal framework was lacking that brought together all the actors involved in planning and implementing the initiative. Those involved did not all have the same information. Each structure performed the tasks within its scope, according to its own interests, but without consulting the other parties, and there was no platform for discussing implementation difficulties. Afin de permettre aux mutuelles de santé d’étendre leur couverture aux personnes démunies, le Réseau d’appui aux mutuelles de santé (RAMS) a lancé une initiative dans ce sens en 2012, en partenariat avec le ministère burkinabais de l’Action sociale et de la Solidarité nationale (MASSN). Cet article montre que, suite aux difficultés rencontrées dans la mise en œuvre de cette initiative, les pauvres ont continué d’être exclus des services de santé. En effet, ils devaient non seulement payer une partie de leurs frais de santé, mais aussi accepter de n’être couverts que pour trois épisodes de maladie par an. La mise en œuvre du programme s’est également heurtée à d’autres obstacles comme la distance géographique entre le domicile de certains bénéficiaires d’une mutuelle de santé et le centre de soins le plus proche, ainsi que la non‐reconnaissance de la carte d’adhérent à une mutuelle par certains personnels de santé et exploitants de pharmacie. Il ressort de cette étude qu’il manquait à cette initiative un cadre formel regroupant l’ensemble des acteurs impliqués dans sa planification et sa mise en œuvre. Ces derniers ne disposaient pas tous des mêmes informations. Chaque structure exécutait les tâches correspondant à son domaine de compétence et à ses propres intérêts, mais sans consulter les autres parties prenantes, et il n’existait aucun mécanisme permettant de débattre des problèmes posés par la mise en œuvre du programme.

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  • Kadio Kadidiatou & Kafando Yamba & Ouédraogo Aboubacar & Valéry Ridde, 2018. "Analysis of the implementation of a social protection initiative to admit the poorest of the poor to mutual health funds in Burkina Faso," International Social Security Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 71(1), pages 71-91, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:intssr:v:71:y:2018:i:1:p:71-91
    DOI: 10.1111/issr.12161
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