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RBF Knowledge Library

The learning page will provide a wide range of content that will be useful for everyone from expert practitioners to those unfamiliar with RBF but interested in learning more about it.  You can expect to see these kinds of documents:

Country Examples:  Synopses of the main features of RBF programs supported by the World Bank.    

Technical Briefs: Substantial but short pieces that provide arguments for and against RBF-related policies, e.g., "Employing RBF in health systems strengthening efforts";  "RBF - Promises and Pitfalls";  "RBF and fiscal space". 

Feature Stories:  Narratives of actual RBF-related experience with a human-interest focus.   Highly accessible to all readers and fun to read. 

Technical Working Papers:  Papers on technical topics of particular interest, e.g., "Perverse incentives in RBF", "Sustainability". These are journal-equivalent, peer-reviewed articles with references.   

Tools and Guidelines:  Working aids for those on the ground.   "How to" guides, check lists on training, technical assistance, monitoring, evaluation, proposal design, etc.  

Featured Documents

Notable documents recently posted.

Presentations

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

Author/s: Bart Jacobs
A presentation on experiences and lessons from Cambodia's national scale up of PBF.
[download, 1.68 MB] December 2009
Case Studies

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

Author/s: 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.
[Pay-for-performance in Brazil: UNIMED-Belo Horizonte Physician Cooperation -> external link] May 2010
Case Studies

Pay for Performance: Improving Maternal Health Services in Pakistan

Author/s: Hamid Bashir, Sarfaraz Kazmi, Rena Eichler, Alix Beith, and Ellie Brown
Pay for performance (P4P) in Pakistan consists of supply-side payments to providers and demand-side vouchers that subsidize the costs of a package of reproductive health care services and transportation for poor women. The aim is to reduce maternal and infant mortality by increasing utilization of antenatal care, skilled delivery, and postnatal care, as well as family planning services. P4P is being implemented within the framework of a social franchise network, Greenstar Social Marketing.
[P4P: Improving Maternal Health Services in Pakistan -> external link] June 2010
Presentations

Performance-Based Financing (PBF) Principles and Practices - CORDAID

Author/s: Piet Vroeg
This presentation by Piet Vroeg highlights the work that the Dutch organization CORDAID has done on performance-based financing, highlighting the principles and practices they have followed in programs in Africa. Included are results in quality, utilization, and financial access and guidance on separating the functions, including the private sector, and community participation.
[download, 418 KB] June 2010
Presentations

Performance-Based Financing (PBF) - The Forest, Not the Tree!

Author/s: 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.
[download, 166 KB] June 2010

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