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Description of role of every Partner :
  1. Ministry of Health/DPHI will sign a special contract with CAAFW and with Thmar Pouk Partnership Secretariat, regarding the sources, amounts and use of the subsidy to be used to pay for premium to insure pre identified poor households in Thmar Pouk in Year 2 and Year 3 based on actual costing, to continue the subsidy paid for by The Donor in Year 1 of the project. DPHI appoints a staff member to be in the Project Advisory Board, and participates in the joint yearly evaluations including the workshops that follow the evaluation. It hosts the Advisory Board meetings when held in Phnom Penh, and it makes recommendations.
     

  1. Ministry of Health/Dpt of Prev Medicine appoints a staff member to be in the Project Advisory Board and participates in the joint yearly evaluations including the workshops that follow the evaluation and make recommendations.
     

  1. Provincial Health Department Banteay Meanchey, supports the project implementation as far as within PHD resource capacity, reports on the project implementation to MoH/DPHI + MoH/Dpt of Preventive Medicine, integrates the implementation into annual operational planning, and where appropriate into the planned budgets, and joins in the six-monthly evaluation and the workshop following the evaluation and make recommendations, and hosts the Advisory Board meetings when held at Banteay Meanchey.
     

  1. Operational District Office in Thmar Pouk, Banteay Meanchey, co-manages the new Peer Educator network according to technical guidelines of MoPoTsyo, supports the other project implementors, reports on the project implementation to PHD, integrates the implementation into annual operational planning, and joins in the six-monthly evaluation and hosts the Advisory Board Meetings when held at Thmar Pouk.
     

  1. CAAFW, in Banteay Meanchey, based in Sisophon, operator of the CBHI scheme, signs a special contract with MoH regarding the subsidy for premium. It receives the subsidy and uses it to extend health insurance benefits to the targeted pre-identified poor and certain benefits to chronic patients. CAAFW reports regularly to MoH/DPHI using the standard MoH quarterly reports. CAAFW is member of Advisory Board Secretariat.
     

  1. MoPoTsyo Patient Information Centre, based in Phnom Penh, organizer of the Peer Educator network under the ODO structure, organizer of the access to quality outpatient consultation for detected diabetes and high blood pressure patients, organizer of the access to good quality medicine and manager of the Revolving Drug Fund of essential drugs for chronic diseases, member of Advisory Board Secretariat.
     

  1. Center for Advanced Studies carries out field research, investigations ordered by the Advisory Board before Advisory Board meetings and workshops; CAS conducts 2 kinds of studies: one is the scientific study and another one is the evaluation study.  The scientific study consists of a “before and after intervention” study.  This would involve gathering baseline data before the start of intervention.  At the end of the project, after 3 years, follows the post-intervention study. This scientific study will only be conducted by CAS but in collaboration with all the partners, which means that only CAS involves in data collection, but other partners can help in developing the research instruments and in providing comments and recommendations.  For the evaluation study, all partners can be involved in data collection but CAS is the leading investigator.  Evaluation studies will be conducted every six months as ordered by the Advisory Board. CAS is member of Advisory Board Secretariat.
     

The World Health Organisation supports the partnership initiative as much as it can. WHO has assigned a Health Financing expert and an expert on Non Communicable Diseases to the Advisory Board. Both experts contribute to the analysis of the data and the formulation of recommendations every six months. 

The Ministry of Planning is officially in charge Pre-Identification of Poor Households in Cambodia. The MoP’s ID Poor Project gives technical assistance to Provincial Planning Department of Banteay Meanchey province. This Provincial Department of Planning (DoP) organizes the Pre-Identification of Poor Households in Thmar Pouk OD through its district counterparts and in partnership with PFD; PFD will be contracted by the Thmar Pouk Partnership Secretariat TPPS (see below) to carry out the pre identification. PFD is not a member of the project’s Advisory Board but communicates with the Advisory Board’s Secretariat and it can help solve problems. 

The TPPS is permanent. It is an executive and administrative unit consisting of 3 individuals who are full members of the Advisory Board, representing their respective organisations. It facilitates for the Advisory Board as it prepares and organizes partnership-meetings and it can sub-contract if its mandated to so by the full secretariat membership. The activities of the Secretariat are funded based on a separate proposal to the donor.