In response to slow progress in improving health service delivery, the Government of Nigeria
requested World Bank support in testing performance-based financing (PBF) and …

Abstract The Nigeria State Health Investment Project (NSHIP) was implemented in three
Nigerian states between 2013 and 2018. Under the NSHIP, some local government areas …

There is a growing concern that the traditional-budget-based financing of health services
does not have adequate incentive to stimulate health sector performance improvement in …

Background: Nigeria piloted decentralized facility financing (DFF) and performance-based
financing (PBF) programs under the Nigeria State Health Investment Project (NSHIP) …

Whereas the effect of performance-based financing (PBF) on improving the quantity and
quality of health services has been established, little is known about what matters for health …

Our study estimated the full economic cost of implementing performance-based financing
[PBF, the Support for Service Delivery Integration Performance-Based Incentives (SSDI-PBI) …

Summary In 2005, the Ministry of Health in Rwanda, with the support of the Belgian
Technical Cooperation, launched a strategy of performance‐based financing (PBF) in a …

Results-based approaches have been a focus of recent discussions in international
development. This paper discusses if performance-based financing (PBF) can make foreign …

Background Globally, good health system performance has resulted from continuous reform,
including adaptation of Decentralisation by Devolution policies, for example, the Direct …

Evidence from low-income Asian countries shows that performance-based financing (as a
specific form of contracting) can improve health service delivery more successfully than …