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Technical Working Papers

Paying Primary Health Care Centers for Performance in Rwanda

Author/s: Paulin Basinga, Paul Gertler, Agnes Binagwaho, Agnes Soucat, Jennifer Sturdy, Christel Vermeersch
This Policy Research Working Paper published by the World Bank reports on a study that examines the impact of Pay for Performance (P4P) on maternal and child health services in Rwanda. It uses data produced from a prospective quasiexperimental evaluation design nested into the P4P program rollout. P4P had a large and significant positive impact on institutional deliveries and preventive care visits by young children, and improved quality of prenatal care.
[Paying Primary Health Care Centers for Performance in Rwanda -> external link] January 2010
Technical Working Papers

Learning Lessons on Implementing Performance-Based Financing, From a Multi-Country Evaluation

Author/s: KIT (Royal Tropical Institute)
[download, 91.25 KB] July 2009
Technical Working Papers

Ensuring that the Poor Share Fully in the Benefits

Author/s: 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.
[download, 425.1 KB] July 2009
Technical Working Papers

Taking Stock: World Bank Experience with Results-Based Financing (RBF) for Health

Author/s: Logan Brenzel
This paper presents the findings of a review of 260 Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) projects with a health sector performance theme in order to understand the nature and extent of World Bank experience with RBF for Health.
[download, 465.11 KB] July 2009

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