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The newest additions to the RBF Health Knowledge Library:

Technical Working Papers

Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a field experiment on health and education in Indonesia

Benjamin A. Olken, Junko Onishi, Susan Wong

Authors report on an experiment in 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives in improving the efficacy of aid programs. Block grants were given to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators. The incentivized villages performed better on health but not on education. Access the paper and presentation.

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Three Nigerian States Inject New Life into Healthcare for Mothers and Children

Bold healthcare improvements in three states of Nigeria could benefit 3.8 million women and children. New financing from the World Bank will support RBF to introduce incentives for health facilities and government institutions.

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Building Evidence on RBF for Health: Third Annual Impact Evaluation Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand

More than 100 participants from 17 countries met in Bangkok, Thailand in October of 2011 to learn, share and make progress on their impact evaluations of RBF projects. You can access the presentations and exercises from the workshop!

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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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Major healthcare improvements in Nigeria for women and children through RBF

New financing from the World Bank and partners will help 3.8 million women and children gain access to better quality health services. Financing to the Nigeria State Health Improvment Project will fund RBF to reward health workers and institutions that perform well, boosting performance management and accountability, and encouraging innovation.

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Brazil: Incentive Program for Family Health Performance Improvement (PIMESF) implemented in Piripiri Municipality

Cheryl Cashin and Y-Ling Chi

This case study describes a unique P4P scheme, designed to improve integration of basic primary health care services. While small, it has the commitment of public authorities to improving performance and the originality of the integrated health approach and provides some valuable lessons.

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New Zealand’s Performance Management Program for Primary Health Organizations

Cheryl Cashin

This case study looks at New Zealand’s program to reinforce the combined health sector efforts to improve the health of enrolled populations and reduce inequalities in health outcomes through supporting clinical governance and rewarding quality improvement within Primary Health Organizations.

Health Provider Payment Reforms in China: What International Experience Tells Us.

This World Bank and Government of China paper examines health provider payment reforms in China—the present system and how it evolved, and changes that would improve it in the context of ongoing health reform. It includes sections on experiments with case-based payment systems, pay-for-performance, alternative government budget payment methods, and an examination of the lessons learned and next steps in China.

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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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RBF Knowledge Library

Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a field experiment on health and education in Indonesia

Three Nigerian States Inject New Life into Healthcare for Mothers and Children

Building Evidence on RBF for Health: Third Annual Impact Evaluation Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand

Knowledge Documents

Subscribe to RBF Health

RBF Homepage

Major healthcare improvements in Nigeria for women and children through RBF

New and Noteworthy

Brazil: Incentive Program for Family Health Performance Improvement (PIMESF) implemented in Piripiri Municipality

New Zealand’s Performance Management Program for Primary Health Organizations

Health Provider Payment Reforms in China: What International Experience Tells Us.

Learning Highlights

Ensuring that the Poor Share Fully in the Benefits