Strategic purchasing of health services involves a continuous search for the best ways to maximize health system performance by deciding which interventions should be purchased, from whom they should be...
For many people who keep up with world events, the news from Afghanistan has long appeared to consist mainly of terror attacks, counter-insurgency campaigns and the opium trade. Behind the sensational...
Excitement is growing about results-based financing (RBF) for health, a financing mechanism that turns the traditional donor approach of paying for inputs on its head. RBF for health is a cash payment...
This brief includes the following headings: what is Results-Based Financing (RBF)? What makes RBF different? A growing interest in linking incentives with results; the potential of RBF; avoiding potential...
In 2003, the Government of Uganda launched a pilot performance-based contracting scheme designed to improve the quality of and access to health services at private not-for-profit (PNFP) health facilities...
Strategic purchasing of health services involves a continuous search for the best ways to maximize health system performance by deciding which interventions should be purchased, from whom they should be...
The World Bank made grants to Afghanistan and the Congo, Democratic Republic of (DRC) to support delivery of health services for the poorest, using local and international non-governmental organizations...
This book was written to help bridge the yawning gap between many developing countries and the Development Goals for health. Right now, that gap looks daunting. But the author can narrow the gap significantly...
In all health systems, providers must be paid for their services. That payment can come from two sources: directly from the individual patient, or from an organization paying on behalf of the patient or...
If the programs are undertaken without conscious attention to including disadvantaged groups, there are a priori reasons for suspecting that they will favor the better-off, thereby exacerbating inequalities...
The objective of the Health Sector Support Investment Project (SWAP) for Cameroon is to increase utilization and improve the quality of health services with a particular focus on child and maternal health...
The objective of the Health Sector Emergency Reconstruction and Development Project for Afghanistan were to: (i) assist the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) to achieve its stated goals of reducing the...
The objective of the Health Sector Rehabilitation Support Project (HSRSP) for Congo is to ensure that the target population of selected health zones has access to, and utilizes, a well-defined package...
The objective of the Bolsa Familia Project for Brazil is to reduce poverty and inequality today and in the future, and to promote human capital investments among poor families through the direct monetary...
The objective of the Provincial Maternal-Child Health Investment Project (MCHIP) for Argentina is to contribute to the reduction of the infant and maternal mortality rate in the Borrower's territory, as...
The objective of the Second Women's Health and Safe Motherwood (WHSM) is to encourage behavior change by pregnant women to have facility-based deliveries by skilled birth attendants. A combination of performance-based...
This book was written to help bridge the yawning gap between many developing countries and the development goals for health. Right now, that gap looks daunting. But we can narrow the gap significantly...
Recent developments at the World Bank provide an opportunity for development partners with similar interests to work together to better understand how results-based financing schemes work and whether they...
In results-based financing (RBF) schemes in Sud-Kivu and Bas Congo provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, health workers in far-flung health facilities can earn a bonus up to 20 percent larger...
As governments and development partners recognize with time the limited returns from business as usual, they are looking for innovative strategies that offer the hope of increasing the impact of their...