The World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Program will on Tuesday September 14th, present a glossary publication on various acronyms associated with Results-Based Financing (RBF) as a general term used to describe different health finance incentives and payment arrangements.  Although often labeled differently, Results-Based Financing (RBF) presents the same concept of  increasing the quantity [...]

You can now download the third issue of the RH Vouchers Quarterly Newsletter here. This issue highlights key discussions from the second technical advisory committee meeting held on June 11, in Washington DC. You will also find an update on the five country programs and a summary profile of the Bangladesh voucher scheme. In the [...]

The second quarterly issue of the RH Vouchers project newsletter is now available for download [PDF]. In this issue we profile the Kenya OBA program and share updates on the evaluation’s population and health facility baselines we highlight Anrudh Jain’s recent commentary on two key indicators to monitor in RH programs that incentivize facility based delivery, [...]

AidWatch awarded the “Best in Aid” prize to the Smart Giving movement for its efforts to promote effective and accountable giving. There will be those who insist on giving shoes (including such high profile experts as Jessica Simpson and Kim Kardashian). Still others offer used yoga mats, or baby formula. Ports and roads clogged up with shoes and yoga [...]

Paul Collier in Foreign Policy (“How to Fix Haiti’s Fixers“) had a rather short piece arguing for a greater stewardship role of the Haitian government and increased transparency of NGOs’ service delivery outputs. Although it’s true that the Haitian state cannot run mass service provision, the government could realistically allocate the funding for it. So, [...]

In this post, we summarize promising work at Results for Development Institute and suggest keeping an eye on R4D for deployment of new information delivery mechanisms in the coming months. The Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Results for Development Institute are supporting a global knowledge access initiative – the Center [...]

Reposted from the African Network for Health Research and Development (AFRO-NETS) The Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth and Ashoka’s Changemakers are offering a new opportunity to the global Changemakers community and inviting entries for solution for Maternal Health. The ultimate goal for this partnership is to harness innovation around Maternal Health issues in a [...]

Idea to use vouchers to increase access to contraception and prevent youth pregnancies with Pass’contraception initiative in high schools The issue of high teenage pregnancies throughout France (about six thousand young girls each year with 455 girls in 2007 in one region of France alone) remains critical and the regional government decided it can no [...]

Reposted from Melissa Ho’s ICTDChick blog, which among other tidbits, documents the birth pangs of a PhD dissertation in western Uganda. Dembbe Clinic WECARE Solar and Netbook Deployment While my study hasn’t quite officially started yet (most of my equipment is en route via Cairo right now) I’ve started deploying some computers and mobile phones in [...]

The RH Vouchers project is proud to offer the first issue of its quarterly newsletter (PDF link). Click through to read about the multi-country evaluation, the Uganda voucher program design, a recent PSP-One workshop in Nairobi, and other related news. Future issues will present different perspectives on healthcare finance with a particular focus on reproductive [...]