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Tools and Guidelines

Hospital Global Budgeting

Robert Dredge
Hospital funding mechanisms are a key part of the process of reform in many health care systems. Many countries with publicly funded systems have introduced, or modified, systems of global budgets. Global budgets can be used to deliver changes to service delivery patterns.
Feature Story

A Tale of Two Countries: Contracting for Health Services in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Michael H.C. McDowell
Why did contracting delivery of health services to the non-profit sector work well in one country—but sluggishly in the other?
Technical Working Papers

Paying Primary Health Care Centers for Performance in Rwanda

Paulin Basinga, Paul Gertler, Agnes Binagwaho, Agnes Soucat, Jennifer Sturdy, Christel Vermeersch
This Policy Research Working Paper published by the World Bank reports on a study that examines the impact of Pay for Performance (P4P) on maternal and child health services in Rwanda. It uses data produced from a prospective quasiexperimental evaluation design nested into the P4P program rollout. P4P had a large and significant positive impact on institutional deliveries and preventive care visits by young children, and improved quality of prenatal care.

Knowledge Documents

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  • Country Examples (7)
  • Newsletters (3)
  • Presentations (14)
  • Technical Briefs (10)
  • Technical Working Papers (4)
  • Tools and Guidelines (22)

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I cannot believe we are investing so much in health and getting back so little simply because we miss the right target

Adama Traore, Permanent Secretary of Health in Burkina Faso

Results-Based Financing (RBF) for Health is a tool used for increasing the quantity and quality of health services. It combines the use of incentives for health-related behaviors with a strong focus on results, and can support efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

           

         

         
         
                  

           

  

    

    
  
  
      

        

      
  

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A Tale of Two Countries: Contracting for Health Services in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

  

  
  

                Michael H.C. McDowell
  

  
  

                Why did contracting delivery of health services to the non-profit sector work well in Afghanistan -- but sluggishly in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

 
Five health professionals give their opinions, with lessons for other states hit by conflict and poverty. Those lessons show that focusing above all on results, not process, is key to success.
  

  

    

  
  
  
  
  
  

   



  
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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty in Nicaragua: Success for Results-Based Financing (RBF)?

  

  
  

                Beryl Benderly
  

  
  

                To help families break out of the cycle, a number of developing countries have created programs that provide parents both the means and the incentive to give their children a better start in life through improved health care, nutrition or education.
  

  

  

      
  

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UK and Norway agree to nearly half billion in new funding for World Bank Health Results Innovation Program 

  

  
  

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered?  Evidence from Rwanda on the Impact of Results-based Financing for Health

  

  
  

                Lindsay Morgan
  

  
  

                On May 8, 2009, the results of one of the first rigorous, scientific evaluations of RBF in one country were unveiled in the Rwandan capital of Kigali.
  

  

    

  
  
  
  
  
  

   



  
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Technical Working Papers

  
Ensuring that the Poor Share Fully in the Benefits


  
Davidson R. Gwatkin

  

    If 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. But such an outcome is far from inevitable.  




  

    

  
  
  
  
  
  

   


         

          
         
        

        
      

      

      
      

      

  

    


  


        
        

          

  

    
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