Tag Archives: Rwanda

Understanding the Dynamics of Successful Health System Strengthening Interventions: Full Study Portfolio

Health Systems Research, Publications

USAID’s Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project helps to improve health in developing countries by expanding people’s access to health care. The project team works with partner countries to increase their domestic resources for health, manage those precious resources more effectively, and make wise purchasing decisions. HFG’s research portfolio enhances the ability of USAID to […]

Overview of Community Based Health Insurance Lessons

Health Finance, Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Presentations

Resource Type: Presentation Authors: Hailu Zelelew Published: March 2017 Resource Description: Presentation during the Institutionalizing Community Health Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 28th, 2017.  This presentation gives an overview of Community-based Health Insurance (CBHI), and explores country experiences and lessons with CBHI in Rwanda, Ghana, and Senegal.

Tax Reform and Resource Mobilization for Health

Governance and Leadership, Publications, Resource Mobilization

Resource Type: Report Authors:  Shan Soe-Lin, Sasha Frankel, Eunice Heredia-Ortiz, and Marty Makinen Published: 12/01/2015 Resource Description:  As development assistance for health shrinks and the demand for health expenditures increases, developing countries are under mounting pressure to provide adequate resources for health. Governments can increase available public resources by benefiting from overall economic growth, borrowing, making efficiency […]

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Tax Reform as a Strategy to Mobilize Additional Resources for Health

Announcements, Health Finance, Leads, Publications, Resource Mobilization, Where We Work

As development assistance for health shrinks and the demand for health expenditures increases, developing countries are under mounting pressure to provide adequate resources for health. Governments can increase available public resources by benefiting from overall economic growth, borrowing, making efficiency gains, and reforming tax laws and improving tax administration, among others. Tax Reform and Resource […]

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Essential Health Services Country Snapshot Series

Announcements, Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications, Tools, Universal Health Coverage, Where We Work

A new series of country profiles analyzes the governance dimensions of Essential Packages of Health Services (EPHS) in the 24 Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths (EPCMD) priority countries. An EPHS can be defined as the package of services that the government is providing or is aspiring to provide to its citizens in an equitable […]

Essential Health Services: Rwanda

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications, Universal Health Coverage

In 2011 the Ministry of Health in Rwanda reviewed and updated the health services packages provided by the different tiered facilities in the health sector. The Service Package for Health Facilities at Different Levels of Service Delivery document specifies what services should be provided at each health facility level, and the inputs required to implement […]

The Role of Health Insurance in Family Planning

Announcements, Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications

A new policy brief written by HFG and the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) finds that “Well-designed insurance programs offer a way to improve the quality and equitable provision of family planning services.” The Role of Health Insurance in Family Planning explores how insurance programs “can be designed to increase demand for and uptake of family […]

Verification in Performance-Based Incentive Schemes

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Human Resources for Health, Publications

Resource Type: Report Authors: Alex Ergo and Ligia Paina Published: 8/1/2012 Resource Description: Verification in Performance-based Incentive (PBI) schemes aims to ensure that reported data accurately reflects actual performance, both by detecting and correcting misreporting, and by identifying and deterring fraud. In doing so, PBI verification guarantees the credibility of the scheme so that the different stakeholders trust […]

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