With 20m people in some form of education, Egypt has the largest student body in the MENA region. The sector can draw on a proud history – Cairo’s Al Azhar is the world’s oldest operating university, and there is strong cultural education – and after a post-independence drive to expand schooling, universal access to basic education is guaranteed....
A substantial private health care segment already exists in Egypt, used by a fairly wide range of socioeconomic groups. The private sector largely coexists next to the public system, taking some of the strain off the latter and broadening the market. While a number of public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been pioneered, they have not been as...
A drive to diversify Gabon’s economy away from commodity dependency has made education a key element of the broader plans for growth. The government has adopted a development strategy based on the results of the 2010 National Education Conference, which highlighted pertinent weaknesses in the public education system. The state is primarily working...
Until 2009 the majority of health expenditure in Gabon came from the private sector. A small segment of the population has private health insurance, but most private spending is out-of-pocket. Access to quality care in Gabon is out of step with the country’s position as an upper-middle income country, and the government has made an effort to jump-...
In recent years, Gabon’s health strategy has centred on heavy investment in infrastructure. With a number of facilities undergoing refurbishment and expansion, two programmes – a national health survey and an initiative to strengthen local government – will give authorities a more accurate picture of the disease burden. Major challenges remain...
The continuing implementation of expansive reforms, including the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) and updates to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) aimed at providing universal health care to its citizens, made 2012 a turbulent year for Ghana’s health sector. Despite sharp budget increases to the Ministry of Health (MoH) over the past...
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