Summary Report: Performance-Based Incentives: Consultations for Haryana State Demonstration
July 31, 2015The government of the northern Indian state of Haryana has evinced strong interest in adopting a PBI scheme to improve primary health care services in the state. To this end, in December 2014 the HFG project conducted a qualitative investigation in t …
Strengthening India’s Public Health Workforce: A Landscape Analysis of Initiatives and Challenges
July 31, 2014For India’s public health system to deliver effectively, it is imperative that policymakers place strategic focus on tackling persistent HRH issues such as chronic shortage of health workers, unbalanced skill mix in the existing health workforce, and …
Supporting the Scale-Up of HIV Care and Treatment through Human Resources for Health Interventions in Côte d’Ivoire
June 8, 2014Resource Type: Brief Authors: Kate Greene Published: June 2014 Resource Description: Although Côte d’Ivoire has seen an overall downward trend in HIV prevalence rates over the past decade thanks to more robust and effective HIV/AIDS prevention progra …
Synthesis Report of Health Information Systems in India
May 31, 2014A highly functioning national health information system (HIS) facilitates transparent and evidence-based decision making that ultimately leads to improvements in the health status of a country’s population. Rather than reflecting a single structure t …
Improving Data for Decision-Making: Leveraging Data Quality Audits in Haryana, India
May 31, 2014The 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) initiat …
Improving Nursing Education in Haiti by Strengthening Quality Standards
May 8, 2014Resource Type: Brief Authors: Kate Greene, Megan Meline, Health Finance and Governance Project Published: May 2014 Resource Description: Haiti has a long tradition of educating high quality nurses. However, in recent years the number of private nursi …
Promoting the Use of Mobile Money to Strengthen Health Systems: Applications for Human Resources for Health
July 1, 2013Resource Type: Activity Brief Authors: Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Published: 7/1/2013 Resource Description: Mobile phone-based financial transactions, commonly referred to as mobile money, promote financial inclusion and can be used to addre …
Nigeria TB Supportive Supervision Pilot Evaluation
September 28, 2012Resource Type: Report Authors: Elizabeth Ohadi, Leah Ekbladh, Anthony Okwuosah, Alison Comfort, and Alexandra Hulme Published: 9/28/2012 Resource Description: According to the WHO, Nigeria ranks 13th out of the top 22 high burden Tuberculosis (TB) co …
Infection Control Program Implementation in Egypt: A Process Assessment
September 14, 2012Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) is leading a decades-long (1997-2018) Health Sector Reform Program that has five guiding principles: universality, quality, equity, efficiency, and sustainability. A major part of the reform is to move …
Nigeria Undergraduate Medical and Dental Curriculum Template
September 1, 2012Resource Type: Report Authors: Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria, Health Systems 20/20 Project Published: 9/1/2012 Resource Description: Over several years, the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Health has been making …
