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Let’s Get Together: Community of Practice for Results-Based Financing is Launched
Lindsay Morgan
A Community of Practice (CoP) for results-based financing (RBF) was launched in February 2010 during a workshop on RBF in Burundi, the second country in Africa, after Rwanda, to design and implement a nationwide RBF program. Burundi’s RBF scheme provides incentives to health facilities based on quantity and quality indicators and was launched nationwide in April. The CoP members are sharing best practices and knowledge and hoping to create interactions between practitioners, policymakers, and donors.
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Identifying Indicators for Performance-Based Contracting (PBC) is Key: The Case of Liberia
Ministries of Health and development agencies in a number of post-conflict countries have adopted PBC – in Liberia, government contracting of NGOs to deliver health services after years of conflict is improving availability and quality, and strengthening government capacity. Selecting the right indicators is challenging but is key to success.
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A Personal Story - Seeking the Roots of Performance-Based Financing (PBF)
Robert Soeters
A Personal Story from Dr. Robert Soeters, pioneer of performance-based financing programs. Read his tales of PBF getting started in Mozambique, in Zambia, breakthroughs in Cambodia, reaching women, and coming back to PBF in Africa.
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Brand New Day: Newly Launched Nationwide PBF Scheme in Burundi Reflects the Hopes of a Nation
Lindsay Morgan
Launched in April 2010, expectations surrounding PBF in Burundi are rich—and the challenges are many. The government made an ambitious decision: to scale it up across the country, in concert with another major reform—free healthcare for pregnant women and children under the age of five.
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Brazil: Results-Based Financing (RBF) Helps Achieve Decline in Family Poverty

Beryl Lieff Benderly
Bolsa Familia – a family stipend program aimed at reducing poverty in 11 million families, is showing positive results in key areas, from child health and nutrition to empowerment of women, and is helping Brazil reach the MDGs. Officials also credit the program with helping achieve Brazil's 81% drop in poverty.
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Some Days Are Better Than Others: Lessons Learned From Uganda’s First Results-Based Financing Pilot
Lindsay Morgan
A pilot performance-based contracting scheme was started to improve the quality and access to health services at private not-for-profit health facilities. In addition to performance incentives, facilities could decide how to allocate resources, which had a positive impact, but the incentives did not. See the design and implementation issues behind the failure of the incentives. The good news - enormous improvements can be had by granting facilities freedom to choose how to spend their money.
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Successful Tuberculosis Control Program in China Incorporates Results-Based Financing (RBF)
Lindsay Morgan
When China does something, it does it big. Think the Three Gorges Dam—the largest electricity-generating plant in the world. Or the opulence of the Beijing Olympics. Think the 5,000 mile-long Great Wall. The country’s tuberculosis (TB) epidemic is equally massive—and tragic.
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A Tale of Two Countries: Contracting for Health Services in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Michael H.C. McDowell
Why did contracting delivery of health services to the non-profit sector work well in Afghanistan -- but sluggishly in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Five health professionals give their opinions, with lessons for other states hit by conflict and poverty. Those lessons show that focusing above all on results, not process, is key to success.
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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty in Nicaragua: Success for Results-Based Financing (RBF)?
Beryl Benderly
To help families break out of the cycle, a number of developing countries have created programs that provide parents both the means and the incentive to give their children a better start in life through improved health care, nutrition or education.
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UK and Norway agree to nearly half billion in new funding for World Bank Health Results Innovation Program

Lindsay Morgan

Newsletters

These are the most recent RBF Health Newsletters. Remember that the most recent news will always be found here.

RBF Health Newsletter, Issue 3, February 2010
This issues includes: Major New Funding for RBF, Country Highlight: Rwanda Results Show Substantial Impact from RBF, Experts Meet in Clermont-Ferrand, RBF Website News, and an introduction to the World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Unit RBF team.

RBF Health Newsletter, Issue 1, October 2008

RBF Health Newsletter, Issue 2, July 2009
This issue includes Additional RBF pilots, Seed grants, RBF in Afghanistan, Workshops in Rwanda and the Philippines, and more.

RBF Health in the News

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New York Times: Crisis in the Operating Room (Nicholas Kristof)

This was brought to our attention by Amie Batson who points out that CCPs (conditional cash payments) to expectant mothers provide incentives to have safe deliveries.

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