High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges - Resilience and Inclusion in Health

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The 2030 Agenda laid out ambitious goals to promote the health and wellbeing of all populations, including the scale-up of universal health coverage and a commitment to meet the needs of more marginalized, vulnerable, and often excluded populations.

Many States are struggling to meet the healthcare needs of populations on their territory in the face of the pandemic and urgently need financial and technical support. 

Refugee-hosting countries can benefit from inclusive approaches to healthcare and other national services that bring humanitarian and development funds, multi-year planning and strategies in support of immediate and longer term goals.

The session will open with a panel chaired by the Assistant High Commissioner for Operations and will include two refugee-hosting countries, a refugee representative, and the World Bank.

Panel members will share reflections on approaches to inclusion in national health systems and strengthening health systems from national and subnational perspectives, a refugee perspective, and that of a key development actor.

These reflections will set the stage for the next part of the session, which will include a moderated discussion with representatives from United Nations agencies, academia, a major global health actor, a development donor, a national NGO, and a refugee-hosting country. The discussion will focus on good practices, lessons learned, and challenges relating to inclusion and integration in national health systems – including financing – with reference to COVID-19 responses.