Mobile money options to facilitate payment of incentives in Senegal’s RBF program: An assessment of opportunities, barriers, and solutions

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USAID promotes the use of electronic payment services as a means for improving access to financial services for “unbanked” populations and increasing accountability and transparency for financial flows in public sector programs. Widespread diffusion of digital payments also can introduce more advanced services including savings, credit, and insurance. Results-Based Financing (RBF) interventions link incentive payments […]

Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of Mobile Decision Support Tools: A Malawi Case Study

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Mobile applications are promising tools for strengthening service quality and have been an area of considerable mHealth innovation. Despite growing demand for data to guide policymakers, donors, and program managers in making sound investments, there is a paucity of evidence on the cost-effectiveness of mHealth technologies. To address this gap, the HFG Project analyzed a […]

Health Outcomes: What Does the Evidence Tell us about the Impact of Health Systems Strengthening?

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Presented at USAID’s Global Health Mini-University, 2016. USAID’s Office of Health Systems and the HFG Project recently launched the Impact of Health Systems Strengthening on Health report, which for the first time presents a significant body of peer-reviewed evidence linking health systems strengthening interventions to measurable impacts on health outcomes. The report identifies 13 types […]

Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of a Mobile Decision Support Tool in Malawi

Digital Finance, Publications, Where We Work

Mobile applications are promising tools for strengthening service quality and have been an area of considerable mHealth innovation. Despite growing demand for data to guide policymakers, donors, and program managers in making sound investments, there is a paucity of evidence on the cost-effectiveness of mHealth technologies. To address this gap, the HFG Project analyzed a […]

Mobile Money for Health

Digital Finance, Publications

Resource Type: White Paper Authors: Sherri Haas, Marilyn Heymann, Pamela Riley, and Abeba Taddese Published: 11/1/2013 Resource Description: Mobile money provides unique opportunities in the health sector. It can be integrated into existing activities—replacing cash flows—to improve efficiency, accountability, and transparency in financial transactions. It also opens up potential to improve scalability of subsidy and incentive schemes and […]

Promoting the Use of Mobile Money to Strengthen Health Systems: Applications for Health Care Financing

Digital Finance, Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Publications

Resource Type: 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 address key financial barriers to health care access for the poor, such as high out-of-pocket spending costs and prohibitive transportation costs to health facilities, especially in rural […]

Promoting the Use of Mobile Money to Strengthen Health Systems: Applications for Human Resources for Health

Digital Finance, Human Resources for Health, Publications

Resource 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 address key financial barriers to health care access for the poor. Cash payments in the health system carry security risks, increased vulnerability to fraud and leakage, […]

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