Building Evidence on Results-Based Financing (RBF): Second Annual Impact Evaluation Workshop, Tunis Tunisia

A next generation impact evaluation (IE) workshop entitled "Building Evidence on Results-Based Financing (RBF)" was held in Tunis, Tunisia from October 18-22, 2010, jointly led by the World Bank's Human Development Network (HDN), the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF), the Spanish Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF), World Bank Institute (WBI) and the African Development Bank (ADB). This workshop reunited the global community of practice conducting impact evaluations of RBF in health programs that was officially launched in December 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. Unlike the Cape Town workshop, which was exclusively focused on designing impact evaluations, the Tunis workshop supported the project teams in the next phase of the project cycle by addressing key implementation issues that are common across all evaluations.

The objectives of the workshop were to:

1) share results, progress and operational issues regarding impact evaluation with a broad audience of similar RBF projects in health;

2) build client capacity for evidence-based policy making by enabling projects to use impact evaluations as a tool for operational decision-making;

3) build a community of practice of researchers and policymakers involved in IEs of RBF interventions.

The workshop attracted over 80 participants at different stages in the process of rigorously evaluating their programs, including 10 RBF project teams from across five of the six World Bank regions. The participants included mostly government officials at the program management level as well as World Bank TTLs, Principal Investigators and representatives from partner donor agencies and non-government institutions, notably the AfDB and OECD.

Workshop Agenda

October 18, 2010

The Promise of RBF to Reach Health MDGs and the Evidence Gap: How Impact Evaluation can Inform Policy Dialogue - Agnès Soucat, African Development Bank

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Part 2

Part 3

Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF): Impact Evaluation and the Knowledge Agenda - Sebastian Martinez, World Bank
Introduction of HRBF IE Network mission and project teams
Overview of IE products and website
Discuss objectives for the week and structure of parallel sessions

Theoretical Framework for Results-Based Financing for Health- Christel Vermeersch, World Bank

HRITF Case Study: Kyrgyz Republic Results-Based Financing Program - Tamer Rabie, World Bank

Building Global Knowledge: Demonstrating Results from Impact Evaluations in HRBF
- Plan Nacer Maternal Child Health: Argentina - Martin Sabignoso and Humberto Silva, Plan Nacer
- Performance Based Financing for HIV/AIDS Services: Rwanda - Damien de Walque, World Bank

Results Chain for Health RBF- Jed Friedman, World Bank

Fundamentals of Data Analysis STATA 1 - Laurence Lannes, LSE/World Bank

October 19, 2010

IE Methods: A Refresher Course - Sebastian Martinez and Christel Vermeersch, World Bank

Managing an HRBF Impact Evaluation: RBF Project Cycle - Christel Vermeersch, World Bank

Fundamentals of Data Analysis: STATA 2 - Willa Friedman,UC Berkeley/World Bank

October 20, 2010

Data Collection and Quality Control: Questionnaire development, training, field work, data entry and management - Beatriz Godoy, Sistemas Integrales

Data Collection and Quality Control: Lessons from HRITF Countries - Alvaro Canales, Sistemas Integrales

Data Management and Storage - Jennifer Sturdy, World Bank

Fundamentals of Data Analysis: STATA 3- Elisa Rothenbuhler

October 21, 2010