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, and
we [...]

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 mats cannot [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reposted from Melissa Ho’s ICTDChick blog, which among other tidbits, documents the birth pangs of a PhD dissertation in western Uganda.

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 health [...]