📋 Tender Overview
Project No.
HWG_101_2025A
Project Title
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Smart Families Sustainable Financing Framework for Women's Health
Project Status
Project in Implementation
Fund Account
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APEC Support Fund
Sub-fund
ASF: Women and the Economy
Project Year
2025
Project Session
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Session 1
APEC Funding
99,464
Co-funding Amount
150,000
Total Project Value
249,464
Sponsoring Forum
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Health Working Group (HWG)
Topics
Health; Women's Economic Empowerment; Financial Policy
Committee
SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE)
Other Fora Involved
Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy (PPWE)
Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved
Proposing Economy(ies)
Peru
Co-Sponsoring Economies
Chile; Malaysia; Thailand; Viet Nam
Expected Start Date
01/08/2025
Expected Completion Date
31/12/2026
Project Proponent Name 1
Eric Ricardo Pena-Sanchez
Job Title 1
Vice Minister
Organization 1
Ministry of Health, Peru
Telephone 1
+51987713103
Email 1
epena@minsa.gob.pe
Project Proponent Name 2
Patricia Wu
Job Title 2
Senior Vice President
Organization 2
Access Partnership
Telephone 2
+12025031 576
Email 2
patricia.wu@accesspartnership.com
Declaration
Eric Ricardo Pena-Sanchez
Project Summary
In many APEC economies, women face persistent barriers to accessing healthcare, which limits their economic participation and exacerbates demographic pressures, such as population ageing, hindering their health and economic outcomes and exacerbating the socioeconomic effects of demographic challenges. A learning of the 2024 SOM3 APEC Women’s Health Policy Dialogue was that part of the available pool of innovative financing, valued at USD$5.4 trillion, could be deployed to improve women’s health outcomes. This project builds on the policy dialogue, as well as APEC Project HWG 06 2022S ( APEC Smart Families ), by convening a 1-day workshop - on the margins of the Finance Ministerial Meeting - for women, health, finance, and other policymakers to identify innovative health financing mechanisms for increasing funding for and access to women’s health. The workshop will serve as the basis for an APEC Smart Families Sustainable Financing Framework for Women’s Health, a tool to assist economies in deploying such financing mechanisms for improved women’s health outcomes.
Relevance
Region
This project seeks to address insufficient financing of and limited access to healthcare for women, which constrains their economic and social potential. These challenges exacerbate economic dependency ratios and demographic imbalances in 16 of the 21 APEC economies.
APEC Project HWG 06 2022S ( APEC Smart Families ) convened a multi-stakeholder group of experts who provided input into development of the APEC Smart Families Menu of Policy Options, which was designed to better position APEC economies to mitigate consequences from these demographic trends. The goal of this
