Send to friendIt 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.
The World Bank’s Health, Nutrition & Population Unit partnered with the World Bank Institute. Together we spent countless hours figuring out all of the details from how to organize our content—which was rather limited at the time—to choosing color schemes and logos. The questions never seemed to stop: Where would our content come from? How long would it take to develop a loyal following? How much content would we need to launch the website? Somehow we managed to figure it out. Thanks to the dedication of many early contributors, including members of the core HRITF team, commissioned writers, and our partners at the World Bank Institute, the website was successfully launched in July 2009. It was the culmination of more than a year of hard work and seeing the site on the web seemed no less than miraculous.
We couldn’t have imagined—even in our wildest dreams—that one year later we would have a large following and such rich content. The website has evolved immensely over the last year and we hope that it continues to be a reliable source of information on RBF for our community. We are grateful to those who have contributed and encourage those who haven’t to comment on blogs or send us suggestions. We want to become a global knowledge center on RBF and hope that the website will help countries work towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. We’d love to hear from you.
Happy birthdaywww.rbfhealth.org and may the next year be even better than the last one!