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Performance Based Incentives to Strengthen Primary Health Care in Haryana State, India: Findings from a formative investigation

Governance and Leadership, Health Finance, Publications

The Government of Haryana is interested in adopting a performance-based incentive (PBI) scheme aimed at strengthening primary health care results. In December 2014, the HFG project conducted a qualitative investigation among 10 public health facilities in two Blocks in Haryana in order to understand the existing incentive and operating environments and to inform the design […]

Universal Health Coverage in Haryana: Setting Priorities for Health and Health Systems

Health Finance, Publications, Universal Health Coverage

In India, the reach of the public health system is limited; many people avoid seeking formal care because of its high cost or cultural barriers. As a result, they delay seeking care until they are seriously ill, which means higher costs when they seek care, high morbidity, and sometimes mortality that would have been preventable […]

Domestic Innovative Financing for Health: Learning From Country Experience

Announcements, Health Finance, Publications, Resource Mobilization

Advances in health care are extending and improving the quality of life for people around the world, but such advances come with a price tag. While all nations face budgetary constraints for health funding, low- and middle-income countries have the fewest resources for their health sectors. And as many of these nations begin transitioning away […]

Political Winds Blow a New Life into Senegal’s Mutuelles de Santé

Health Finance, Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Senegal has been implementing various forms of health insurance (private, public, and community-based) for decades. Renewed political will has energized the use of community-based health insurance (mutuelles de santé) as a key element in the government’s push for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. While this government support is laudable, financial, technical, and organizational challenges […]

Use of Incentives in Health Supply Chains: A Review of Results-Based Financing in Mozambique’s Central Medical Store

Governance and Leadership, Health Finance, Publications

Supply chains are the foundation of any health system. For health supply chains to work—for the right goods to be received and delivered in the right quantities, in good condition, to the right place, at the right time, for the right cost—countless actors working in different locations with different responsibilities need

Production and Use of Health Accounts in India: What Can We Learn from the Experience so Far?

Health Finance, Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Health systems worldwide are expanding their capacity to improve people’s welfare. Governments and their development partners in low- and middle-income countries are depending on data to inform health financing decisions, monitor health sector performance, and exercise stewardship. Recognition of the value of health resource data has built momentum for health resource tracking – measuring health […]

Improving Data for Decision-Making: Leveraging Data Quality Audits in Haryana, India

Governance and Leadership, Health Finance, Human Resources for Health, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications

The Government of India has prioritized 184 of the 640 districts in the country for focused maternal and child health interventions under an integrated program called the Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) initiative. A

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