Performance-Based Financing Workshop in Rwanda
May 2 2007
Health Systems 20/20 is a co-sponsor, co-organizer, and technical lead for the Performance-Based Financing for Health Results Workshop held in Kigali, Rwanda May 2-4, 2007. Ten qualified teams from sub-Saharan African countries were selected through a competitive process based on the following criteria: assessment of performance problems and the role incentives play, whether key stakeholder groups were represented in the team, and potential to champion a process to implement pay-for-performance programs in the home countries.
The workshop was strategically located in Rwanda where performance-based financing is being implemented on a national scale. This allowed the host country government officials to share the Rwandan experience and allow for organized field trips to local sites where pay-for-performance programs are in place. The interest generated by this workshop gives evidence that stakeholders the world over are exploring the performance-based financing option.
