Subject: Re: WHO Barcelona Course on Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage, 16-20 March 2020, Barcelona, Spain
From: "DOMENTE, Silviu" <[email-masked]>
To: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>, "KLIMIASHVILI, Rusudan" <[email-masked]>, Zaal Kapanadze <[email-masked]>, Beqa Jakeli <[email-masked]>, tinatin khardziani <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:37:55 +0000

Dear Maia,

I will contact Barcelona office colleagues and clarify.

Will let you know.

Best regards,

Silviu

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 22, 2020, at 14:31, Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]> wrote:

Dear Silviu,

I would like to kindly address you regarding the upcoming Barcelona Course on Health Financing for UHC.

Please, be informed that the First Deputy Minister Dr. Tamar Gabunia Kindly nominated Mr. Beka Jakeli, Head of Department of Budgetary-Economics of the Ministry and
Mr. Zaal Kapanadze, Director of the LEPL Agency for Medical and Pharmaceutical Activities to participate in this event.

We tried to complete online application form but unfortunately, the appropriate web page is not accessible. Therefore, we kindly ask you to advise how to proceed with
this issues.

Thank you in advance for continued cooperation and support.

Best regards,

Maia Nikoleishvili MPA

Acting Head of International Relations and Protocol Division of Administration

Ministry of IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

Address: 144 Tsereteli ave., 0159 Tbilisi, Georgia

Tel.: +995 32 2510034 (0803)

Cell phone: +995 577272713

E-mail:
[email-masked]

From: WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening

Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 2:03 PM

To: WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening <[email-masked]>

Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: WHO Barcelona Course on Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage. 16-20 March 2020, Barcelona, Spain

WHO Barcelona Course on Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage

16-20 March 2020, Barcelona, Spain

The WHO Regional Office for Europe is pleased to announce the next annual
WHO Barcelona Course on Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage to be held from
16 to 20 March 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.  This week-long intensive course is offered by the Division of Health Systems and Public Health of the WHO Regional Office for Europe through the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening. We invite
you and your colleagues to participate in this exclusive training event.

The course will review policy instruments to improve health systems performance through better health financing policy focusing on revenue collection,
pooling, purchasing and benefit design. It will explore themes related to universal coverage and place emphasis on policy instruments to achieve efficiency gains.  The course will offer many examples and practical experiences from Europe.

This course is exclusively for participants from the WHO European Region. Please find in the attached link a list of all the member states of the WHO Regional
Office for Europe.:

Countries.

The course is delivered in English.

Applicants are invited to submit a completed online application form available on the course website:

click here

Please use
Barcelona2020 as user name and password.

Please note that the deadline for receiving applications is the
16 of January 2020. To secure participation in the course, accepted participants will be charged a registration fee of EUR 100. The registration fee is payable upon
acceptance of application. Once paid, this payment is non-refundable in case of cancellation. WHO will cover tuition, course materials, coffee breaks and lunches on all five days of the course, plus one dinner reception. Participants will be responsible
for covering the costs of travel, accommodation and subsistence while in Barcelona.

Please find attached a brochure of the course with further details.

We appreciate your help to disseminate this information to other potentially interested colleagues.

Please check out our promotional video of the course:
Video

For any queries, please contact:
[email-masked]

Kind regards,

Ruth Oberhauser

Programme Assistant

WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening

Division of Health Systems and Public Health

WHO Regional Office for Europe

Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, Nostra Senyora de la Mercè Pavilion

Sant Antoni María Claret 167, 08025 Barcelona, Spain

Tel.: +34 93 611 4092

www.euro.who.int/barcelona

From: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>

Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:05 PM

To: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>

Subject: FW: WHO Executive Board meeting

From: DOMENTE, Silviu [mailto:[email-masked]]

Sent: 22 January, 2020 00:10

To: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>

Subject: Re: WHO Executive Board meeting

Dear Tamar,

That would be great!

It is only in English. No translation this time.

Best,

Silviu

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On Jan 21, 2020, at 23:10, Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]> wrote:

​Dear Silviu

Thanks again. We may nominate 2 candidates-Head of Policy Department and Head of Financial Department of MoLHSA. The web announcement indicates that the course is in English. Will there be any Russian language translation provided?

Best,

Tamar

From: DOMENTE, Silviu <[email-masked]>

Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 8:45 PM

To: Tamar Gabunia

Subject: RE: WHO Executive Board meeting

Dear Tamar,

Contacting you now on another subject…

I just got information from Barcelona office that only Nana Kavtaradze from NCDC has applied for the forthcoming course on health financing…

It would be a pity if nobody from the ministry or SSA goes, especially as we could fully support financially.

Maybe you could encourage some key persons to apply? I agreed with them and they could make an exception if people from Georgia apply after the deadline.

Thank you and have a nice evening!

Silviu

From: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>

Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 20:30

To: DOMENTE, Silviu <[email-masked]>

Cc: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>

Subject: RE: WHO Executive Board meeting

Dear Silviu

Many thanks for your follow up on preparation with the EB meeting in Geneva. I will be travelling alone. However, the team from the Georgia’s Representation
in Geneva will attend. I kindly ask Maia Nikoleishvili, a head of foreign relations unit of the ministry CC-ed here to provide details.

As for formal meetings with Regional Director and Director General, at this stage we do not have any special agenda to discuss in a separate meeting.

Any advice on your side which would help me to better prepare for the EB meeting would be appreciated.

With kind regards

პატივისცემით,

თამარ გაბუნია

მინისტრის პირველი მოადგილე

Sincerely,

Tamar Gabunia,
MD, MPH

First Deputy Minister

From: DOMENTE, Silviu [mailto:[email-masked]]

Sent: 21 January, 2020 14:59

To: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>

Subject: WHO Executive Board meeting

Dear Tamar,

I am preparing some briefing files on Georgia for the Executive Board meeting.

Can you tell me at this stage, whether you go alone to EB, or there is going to be a bigger delegation representing Georgia. Anybody from the Georgia’s
Representation in Geneva to attend?

Also, let me know in case you’d like to request a formal meeting with Regional Director, so that I can inform his team.

If you’d like to have a formal meeting with Director General, then the request should be sent through the Georgia’s Representation at UN in Geneva. But
I would still appreciate knowing that in advance, as I’ll have to prepare a special briefing for Director General in that case.

You will in any case meet them informally, so such meetings are requested only in case you have a specific agenda for discussions that will need more
time.

We could discuss further if needed.

Thank you and best regards,

Silviu