Newsletter

The third issue of the RH Vouchers Quarterly Newsletter highlights key discussions from the second technical advisory committee meeting held on June 11, in Washington DC. You will also find a summary profile of the Bangladesh voucher scheme as one the five countries that the evaluation is focusing on. In the publications section it features Shakil and Khan’s review of the lessons learnt from the Bangladesh program and the latest annual compendium profiling 40 social franchising programs, about half of which use vouchers to stimulate demand and target subsidies.

The second  issue of the RH Vouchers project quarterly newsletter profiled the Kenya Output-based Aid (OBA) program and share updates on the evaluation’s population and health facility baselines, featured Population Council's distinguished scholar Anrudh Jain’s commentary on two key indicators to monitor in RH programs that incentivize facility based delivery and a summary of several new publications with management lessons for healthcare finance projects.

Click through the first issue of RH Vouchers project quarterly newsletter (PDF link) to read about the multi-country evaluation, the Uganda voucher program design, a PSP-One workshop held in Nairobi, and other related news. The newsletters present different perspectives on healthcare finance with a particular focus on reproductive health voucher programs in East Africa and South Asia.

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