Verification of Performance in Results-Based Financing : The Case of Afghanistan
The Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan implements a supply-side results-based financing (RBF) scheme to improve the provision of a standardized basic package of health services (BPHS) to its population. Contracting NGOs and “contracting-in” M...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/03/26012680/verification-performance-results-based-financing-rbf-case-afghanistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24077 |
| Summary: | The Ministry of Public Health in
Afghanistan implements a supply-side results-based financing
(RBF) scheme to improve the provision of a standardized
basic package of health services (BPHS) to its population.
Contracting NGOs and “contracting-in” MOPH providers, this
RBF program concentrates on high-priority maternal and child
health services in the BPHS such as antenatal care (ANC),
post-natal care (PNC), delivery care, nutrition,
immunization coverage, tuberculosis (TB), as well as quality
of care. It includes an intensive data verification method,
focusing on both the quantity and the quality of delivered
services, which was implemented between 2010 and 2013 by
international third party organizations. This verification
method was specifically used to ensure that providers reach
performance thresholds and disburse performance payments.
This case study describes the major characteristics of this
RBF verification method. Taking stock of the experience of
the MOPH, it aims at generating possible lessons for other
RBF initiatives, thereby expanding knowledge and making RBF
verification processes more efficient, sustainable and
effective. This case study also responds to concerns about
the future sustainability of RBF, particularly with regard
to the intensive and external nature of verification |
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