The Thmar Pouk Partnership is formed in order to conduct a 3-year pilot project in Thmar Pouk Operational District (Banteay Meanchey province) to study how CBHI, Pre-Identification, the use of HEF and “Peer Educator networks on Diabetes and High Blood Pressure” can be made sustainable and efficiently linked as part of the Cambodian health system.  

There are two main health financing issues that will be investigated through this pilot in particular in their combinations and linkages in the local context:

1)    How to extend Community Based Health Insurance to pre identified poor households using subsidy (HEF) to help them pay premium.

2)    How to link CBHI with self-management groups of diabetes and high blood pressure patients, by extending partial insurance coverage of specific secondary prevention benefits. 

The pilot will be implemented and studied by an informal partnership of the following governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and civil society actors:

1. Ministry of Health, Dpt Planning and Health Information
2. Ministry of Health,  Dpt of Preventive Medicine
3. Provincial Health Dpt in Banteay Meanchey province
4. Operational District Office in Thmar Pouk, Banteay Meanchey province
5. CAAFW, (CBHI operator) in Banteay Meanchey province
6. MoPoTsyo Patient Information Centre, based in Phnom Penh
7. Center for Advanced Studies, (CAS), Phnom Penh
    

Based on proposals, CAAFW, MoPoTsyo and CAS have each requested funding from the same donor, ICCO-KIA in The Netherlands, who will contract with each agency separately with regards to their respective proposals.