[EQ] Ensuring the Poor Share Fully in the Benefits

de: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) : ruglucia@paho.org
para: EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
fecha: 13 de agosto de 2009 09:27
asunto: [EQ] Ensuring the Poor Share Fully in the Benefits


Ensuring that the Poor Share Fully in the Benefits Publication Information


Technical Working Papers
Davidson R. Gwatkin, Date of Publication July 2009
Results-Based Financing (RBF)



Available at: http://www.rbfhealth.org/rbfhealth/system/files/RBF_Tech_Equity_03.pdf



“……If programs are undertaken without conscious attention to including disadvantaged groups, there are a priori reasons for suspecting that they will favor the better-off, thereby exacerbating inequalities. But such an outcome is far from inevitable. Many plausible approaches are available for directing benefits toward the poor; and several of these have proven effective often enough to deserve serious consideration for application elsewhere.
Even when such approaches are applied, however, predicting the equity outcome of any given Results-Based Financing RBF strategy in any particular setting remains more of an art than a science; and only after the fact, through careful monitoring, is it possible to assess an RBF project’s equity consequences with reasonable certainty….



The equity impact of result-based financing (RBF) programs is not predetermined. Rather, it depends upon how the programs are designed and implemented.

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Results-Based Financing (RBF) for Health is a national-level tool for increasing the quantity and quality of health services used or provided based on cash or in-kind payments to providers, payers, and consumers after predetermined health results (outputs or outcomes) have been achieved. It combines the use of incentives for health-related behaviors with a strong focus on results, and can support efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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