• Technical support to member organizations and key stakeholders for the promotion of Community Based Health Financing initiatives.
• Coordinate member organizations at the national level.
• Advocates for community based health financing
• Undertake research in Community Based Health Financing

An Overview of Community Based Health Financing

While varying in detail from country to country and scheme to scheme, CBHF schemes share the goal of finding ways for communities to meet their health financing needs through pooled revenue collection, resource allocation and decisions making by the community. CBHF schemes are a form of insurance: they allow members to pay small premiums on a regular basis to offset the risk of needing to pay large health care fees upon falling sick.
However, unlike many insurance schemes, CBHF schemes are typically based on the concepts of mutual aid and social solidarity. CBHF/CBHI A non-profit type of health insurance for the informal sector, formed on the basis of an ethic of mutual aid and the collective pooling of health risks, in which members generally participate in the management of the scheme.