By Rachel Skolnik Light on Mon, 2010-08-02 14:51
It was just over a year ago that the RBF for Health website went live. The website was the brainchild of former Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF) Program Manager, Amie Batson. In 2008, Amie envisioned an innovative, internet-based platform to allow rapid and creative dissemination of information and publications on results-based financing in health. This idea led to the development of detailed plans for a website that would foster policy change and impact implementation decisions, disseminate the results from results-based financing for health programs, present information that helps to scale up programs, and share lessons learned.
By Kim Bumgarner on Tue, 2010-07-20 11:58
The RBF for Health feature story this week explores Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid), a new(ish) approach that links aid directly to outcomes. The idea is startlingly simple (and some think risky): donors pay a fixed, incremental sum for verified outcomes and recipient governments decide how to achieve the outcomes and how to spend the reward.
We thought it'd be helpful to provide a few links to more information and opinions on the subject of COD:
- Thoughts on COD from Nicholas Kristof, New York Times in his blog post A New Approach to Aid
By Kathryn Boateng on Tue, 2010-06-22 09:49
The muddied motorbike leaning against the wall and the boxes of supplies stacked neatly in the corner are hard to ignore. They take up much of the space in this tiny shed-like room. But this isn’t a factory inventory room, or the home of a traveling salesman. It’s the dwelling place and workspace of a community health worker in Ghana. And the 125 cc off-road bike? It’s just one of the tools of the trade.
By Rena Eichler on Tue, 2010-06-08 17:02
Clever health managers in both the public and private sectors have long understood that, to motivate health providers and patients to take actions to achieve health results, it is critical to build on what makes people tick. Managers realize that incentives - be they monetary or material - might be the added sweetener needed for traditional birth attendants to refer pregnant women to health facilities; for poor TB patients to complete their course of drugs; or for health service providers to reach out to under-served communities. Many results-based financing (RBF) schemes are home grown, locally implemented, and only one part of a broad strategy to improve results. In fact, innovative health managers don’t necessarily call what they’re doing RBF at all.
By Nicolas and Caryn on Tue, 2010-05-18 16:47
10 – 9 – 8 – 7 – 7 -7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 - 1 ----Yesterday, Soeur Hélène, head of the Saint-Jean health center in Kasenga, DRC, learnt that her center would soon move to a performance-based financing system. In a lucky draw, presided over by the provincial Minister of Health, Centre de Santé Saint-Jean and 141 other health facilities in Haut-Katanga district were randomly allocated into treatment and control groups - one of the final steps in the countdown to the launch of the DRC RBF pilot. 
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By Anthony Measham on Mon, 2010-05-17 13:07
We are delighted to launch the RBF Blog, a discussion forum for all those interested in results-based financing (RBF) for health and health care reform in developing countries. Our hope is that this forum will provide ideas, insights, and information useful to practitioners. We want it be a place where the entire community can exchange views, debate controversial issues, and work towards consensus on the many difficult problems we face, as well as share real-life experiences implementing RBF.
By Ruth Levine on Mon, 2010-05-17 12:48
Let’s face it, if something doesn’t change in a hurry we will be hard pressed to reach the Millennium Development Goals, especially for maternal, newborn and child health. What could the needed changes be, many of us ask ourselves?
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