Global Health Council 37th Annual Conference: Dateline 2010: Global Health Goals

Presenters Discuss:
recent interest in Results Based Financing, what the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund aims to achieve, and the importance of getting evidence based results from the impact evaluations of Results Based Financing (Sub Saharan Africa; Central Asia); the appropriateness, prerequisites, strengths and shortcomings of Performance Based Financing (PBF) interventions as strategies to support public health systems and the body of evidence accumulated through a chain of three country experiences (South east Asia; Sub Saharan Africa); the performance/results based financing (PBF/RBF ) concept its importance for improving access to quality health services and to reducing financial barriers to access, how PBF/RBF mechanisms link to improved health outcomes, the key factors of success in PBF/RBF and necessary elements for scaling up PBF to work through governmental systems 'management contract' arrangements, and internal contracting (Rwanda); and the three main principles of the Performance Based Financing (PBF) intervention of the NGO Cordaid, the mission or development goal of the NGO Cordaid in health system strengthening and the challenges that the NGO Cordaid faces related to sustainability and scaling up of PBF schemes (African Great Lakes Region).