Taking it to the Streets: performance-based financing for health in Rwanda

An article about the launch of the Rwanda community health worker incentive program:
 
March 2010, Rwandan community health workers, health facility staff, district authorities and Ministry of Health (MOH) representatives gathered in Nyarubaka, a sector in Kamonyi district, for a ceremony inaugurating a new performance-based financing (PBF) program that, along with a new community health worker cooperative incentive program, aims to improve maternal and child health. The program provides incentives to eligible women conditional on meeting up to three targets:
• Prenatal care in the first 4 months of pregnancy,
• Institutional delivery, and
• Postnatal care by mother-child pairs within the first 7 days of birth