Can performancebased financing help reaching the poor with maternal and child health services? The experience of rural Rwanda

L Lannes, B Meessen, A Soucat… - … International journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Summary More than 20 countries in Africa are scaling up performance-based financing (PBF),
but its impact on equity … This paper draws on evidence from Rwanda to examine the …

Performance-based financing in Africa: time to test measures for equity

V Ridde, L Gautier… - … Journal of Health …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
study reached the same conclusion regarding the absence of equity in mutual health
insurance programs in Rwanda… that combines performance-based financing with health equity

Performance-based financing in low-income and middle-income countries: isn't it time for a rethink?

E Paul, L Albert, BNS Bisala, O Bodson, E Bonnet… - BMJ global …, 2018 - gh.bmj.com
performance-based financing (PBF) in the health sector is an effective, efficient and equitable
… for better quality of services in Rwandan health centres: 3-year experience. Trop Med Int …

The medium-run and scale-up effects of performance-based financing: An extension of Rwanda's 2006 trial using secondary data

DKL Ngo, S Bauhoff - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
… methods to data from Rwanda and control countries, we extend Rwanda’s 2006 PBF trial in
… effects of performance-based incentives and additional unconditional financing relative to no …

[HTML][HTML] Can combining performance-based financing with equity measures result in greater equity in utilization of maternal care services? Evidence from Burkina …

T Mwase, J Lohmann, S Hamadou… - … Journal of Health …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
performance-based financing (… study detects no clear added benefit of the equity measures
implemented in conjunction with PBF compared to stand-alone performance-based financing

Opening the 'black box'of performance-based financing in low-and lower middle-income countries: a review of the literature

D Renmans, N Holvoet, CG Orach… - Health policy and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Although performance-based financing (PBF) receives increasing attention in the literature,
a lot remains unknown about the exact mechanisms triggered by PBF arrangements. This …

The effect of performance-based financing on maternal healthcare use in Burundi: a two-wave pooled cross-sectional analysis

M Rudasingwa, R Soeters, O Basenya - Global health action, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… Some studies in Rwanda only found an increase in institutional deliveries, but no increase …
A study by Gertler and Vermeersch [Citation12] in Rwanda found that performance incentives …

The effects of performance-based financing on neonatal health outcomes in Burundi, Lesotho, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe

A Gage, S Bauhoff - Health Policy and Planning, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Maternal and newborn care has been a primary focus of performance-based financing (PBF)
projects, which have been piloted or implemented in 21 countries in sub-Saharan Africa …

[HTML][HTML] The unintended consequences of combining equity measures with performance-based financing in Burkina Faso

AM Turcotte-Tremblay, M De Allegri, IA Gali-Gali… - … journal for equity in …, 2018 - Springer
… The government implemented an innovative intervention that combines equity measures
with performance-based financing (PBF). These health equity measures included a community-…

[HTML][HTML] Does performance-based financing increase value for money in low-and middle-income countries? A systematic review

AM Turcotte-Tremblay, J Spagnolo, M De Allegri… - … economics review, 2016 - Springer
… We report a field experience from Rwanda demonstrating that performance-based financing
is a feasible strategy in sub-Saharan Africa too. Performance-based financing requires at …