Contributing to Global Learning About Results-Based Financing (RBF): The Health Results Innovation Trust Fund

Recent developments 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. The World Bank’s Health Results Innovation Trust Fund is a multi-donor fund that supports eight competitively selected countries to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate health results-based financing (HRBF) mechanisms with the potential to accelerate progress toward the achievement of national health goals, especially those related to reducing child malnutrition, child mortality, and maternal mortality (MDGs 1c, 4 and 5, respectively). The Government of Norway is the first donor to contribute to the Fund, with an NOK 586 million grant (US$95 million) for the period 2008–2012.