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Presentations

Using P4P to sustain high service delivery level during transition of management authority in Cambodia

Bart Jacobs
A presentation on experiences and lessons from Cambodia's national scale up of PBF.
Case Studies

Pay-for-performance in Brazil: UNIMED-Belo Horizonte Physician Cooperation

Paulo Borem, Estevão Alves Valle, Monica Silva Monteiro De Castro, Ronaldo Kenzou Fujii, Ana Luiza de Oliveira Farias, Fabio Leite Gastal, and Catherine Connor
This case study presents the initial results of the pay-for-performance (P4P) experience of UNIMED-Belo Horizonte (UBH), a private, nonprofit organization in Brazil. UBH is both a health insurance company and a medical cooperative operating in a highly competitive market. UBH is implementing two P4P programs: paying contracted hospitals to pursue and eventually achieve accreditation, and paying physicians to follow disease management protocols for selected conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and childhood asthma. This case study provides an example of private sector P4P to improve service quality and efficiency.
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Performance-Based Financing (PBF) - The Forest, Not the Tree!

Bruno Meesen, Agnes Soucat, Claude Sekabaraga
This presentation conveys information on how PBF is much more than a provider payment mechanism. It offers an opportunity for wider reforms.

Knowledge Documents

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  • Feature Story (5)
  • Case Studies (3)
  • Country Examples (7)
  • Newsletters (3)
  • Presentations (26)
  • Technical Briefs (11)
  • Technical Working Papers (5)
  • Tools and Guidelines (26)

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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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Let’s Get Together: Community of Practice for Results-Based Financing is Launched

  

  
  

                
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A Community of Practice (CoP) for results-based financing (RBF) was launched in February 2010 during a  workshop on RBF in Burundi, the second country in Africa, after Rwanda, to design and implement a nationwide RBF program. Burundi’s RBF scheme provides incentives to health facilities based on quantity and quality indicators and was launched nationwide in April. The CoP members are sharing best practices and knowledge and hoping to create interactions between practitioners, policymakers, and donors.

  

  

    

  
  
  
  
  
  

   



  
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Identifying Indicators for Performance-Based Contracting (PBC) is Key: The Case of Liberia

  

  
  

                

  

  
  

                
Ministries of Health and development agencies in a number of post-conflict countries have adopted PBC – in Liberia, government contracting of NGOs to deliver health services after years of conflict is improving availability and quality, and strengthening government capacity. Selecting the right indicators is challenging but is key to success.

  

  

  

      
  

                
  

  
  

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A Personal Story - Seeking the Roots of Performance-Based Financing (PBF)

  

  
  

                
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A Personal Story from Dr. Robert Soeters, pioneer of performance-based financing programs. Read his tales of PBF getting started in Mozambique, in Zambia, breakthroughs in Cambodia, reaching women, and coming back to PBF in Africa.

  

  

  

      
  

                
  

  
  

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Brand New Day: Newly Launched Nationwide PBF Scheme in Burundi Reflects the Hopes of a Nation

  

  
  

                
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Launched in April 2010, expectations surrounding PBF in Burundi are rich—and the challenges are many. The government made an ambitious decision: to scale it up across the country, in concert with another major reform—free healthcare for pregnant women and children under the age of five.

  

  

    

  
  
  
  
  
  

   



  
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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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