This document is a report of Performance-Based Financing (PBF) within the Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development Aid (CORDAID): Overview of activities, October 2009.
CORDAID has implemented performance-based programmes in several countries and different contextual situations, ranging from very fragile (Sudan and Central African Republic) to stable (Tanzania, Zambia and Indonesia). The most important characteristics and approaches of all programmes are summarized.
In all health systems, providers must be paid for their services. That payment can come from two sources: directly from the individual patient, or from an organization paying on behalf of the patient—or some mix of the two. This note focuses on the second type of payer, described in this paper as a ‘strategic purchaser’ of health services, to distinguish it from the patient as a purchaser. This paper looks at the form that strategic purchasers take, how they can be held to account, and their autonomy.
Author/s: World Bank team led by Rafael Cortez, Senior Health Economist, LCSHH
From "En Breve," a regular series of notes highlighting recent lessons emerging from the operational and analytical program of the World Bank‘s Latin America and Caribbean Region. The December 2009 issue describes a results-based financing project in Argentina - Plan Nacer.
Recent development at the World Bank Provide an opportunity for development partners with similar interests to work together to better understand how results-based financing schemes work and whether they are effective.
