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Balanced Scorecard Assessment Status Report

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The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) has made great strides in creating a culture of planning. From strategic to operational planning, members of the health sector at large appreciate the value of planning their work and working their plans. In 2007, the FMOH embarked on a journey to transform its strategic planning and management processes by adopting the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as their framework.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2009
Main Contact: 
Alison Ion
Author(s): 
Balanced Scorecard Institute
Connected Project: 
The Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconFMOH_Assessment_report_25_Aug__final.pdf

Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

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CHMI is a global network of partners that systematically identifies, documents, and analyzes health market innovations, disseminates information about these models, and facilitates strategic linkages among entrepreneurs, funders, policymakers, and researchers. Visit http://healthmarketinnovations.org/ to use the interactive CHMI global knowledge platform.

The Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) is a global network of partners that seeks to improve the functioning of health markets in developing countries to deliver better results for the poor. CHMI works to accelerate the diffusion of Health Market Innovations, programs and policies—implemented by governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), social entrepreneurs or private companies—that have the potential to improve the way health markets operate.

Main Contact: 
Donika Dimovska
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Alice Garabrant
Donika Dimovska
Gina Lagomarsino
Maria Belenky
Rose Reis
Attached File(s): 
application/pdf iconCHMI 2 pager.pdf

What Works to Prevent and Treat AIDS

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This paper presents recent findings regarding costs and cost-effectiveness of AIDS prevention, treatment and care interventions, which can be used to inform a long-term strategic response to the epidemic.

This paper presents recent findings regarding costs and cost-effectiveness of AIDS prevention, treatment and care interventions, which can be used to inform a long-term strategic response to the epidemic.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2009
Author(s): 
Lisa de Maria, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Omar Galarraga
Funder(s): 
UNAIDS
Connected Project: 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconWhat Works to Prevent and Treat AIDS.pdf

Human Resources for Health: Costing Liberia’s Pre-Service HRH Scale-Up Plans

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This report estimates Liberia’s resource requirements for scaling up the country’s workforce plans.

This report estimates Liberia’s resource requirements for scaling up the country’s workforce plans.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2008
R4D Author(s): 
Marty Makinen
Funder(s): 
Global Health Workforce Alliance
Connected Project: 
Global Health Workforce Alliance
Version: 
1

Assessing Costing and Prioritization in National AIDS Strategic Plans

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This background paper examines costing practices, cost-effectiveness data and prioritization processes in national HIV/AIDS strategic plans.

This background paper examines costing practices, cost-effectiveness data and prioritization processes in national HIV/AIDS strategic plans. The first section is a literature review on costing and prioritization in the first generation of national strategic plans (NSPs). The second section uses the World Bank AIDS Strategy and Action Plan’s Self-Assessment Tool Guidelines for costing and prioritization to provide a detailed assessment of 7 current-generation NSP documents (Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Malawi, Mozambique, Peru, and the Philippines).

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2009
Main Contact: 
Kira Thorien
R4D Author(s): 
Robert Hecht
R4D Author(s): 
William McGreevey
Author(s): 
Vaughn Hester, Carlos Avila, Eric Gaillard
Funder(s): 
UNAIDS
Connected Project: 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconAssessing Costing and Prioritization in National AIDS Strategic Plans.pdf

Global Health Workforce Alliance

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R4D serves as the secretariat for the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) Financing Task Force (FTF). Under the direction of the FTF, R4D is focusing on synthesizing empirical and programmatic evidence on HRH financing;guiding how evidence can be used in implementing financing policies;and providing Ministries of Health and Education with HRH financing and policy development tools.

Health workers play a critical role in the provision of health care and represent the single largest cost element in health services in low income countries. Millions of people die prematurely, or suffer from illness or disability unnecessarily, due to insufficient number of human resources for health (HRH). This problem has recently begun to receive the greater attention it deserves.

Main Contact: 
Alison Ion
Duration: 
January, 2008 - June, 2009
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Alison Ion
David de Ferranti
Marty Makinen

Provider Purchasing and Contracting for Health Services: The Case of Zambia

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The report identifies and characterizes a number of contracting models that exist in the Zambian health sector.

The study identifies and characterizes a number of contracting models that exist in the Zambian health sector and their impact on access to health. It reveals that the contracting mechanism is prevalent in Zambia, as evidenced by several contracting-in examples (such as different levels of the referral system within the public health sector contracting each other for services) and contracting out arrangements (such as FBOs and NGOs providing care on behalf of the government). It finds that the impact of these programs on the quality of services has remained mixed.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2009
Main Contact: 
Donika Dimovska
Author(s): 
Dale Mudenda, Christopher Mapoma, Bona Chita, Abson Chompolola, Webby Wake
Funder(s): 
The Rockefeller Foundation
Connected Project: 
The Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems
Link to Publication-Resource: 
Go to resource
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconProvider Purchasing and Contracting for Health Services_The Case of Zambia.pdf

Monitoring the quality of public spending in the social sectors in developing countries: Lessons from Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys and other sources

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The objective of this paper is to review about 20 Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS) and related literature produced since the mid-1990s to identify common problems and lessons learned to improve the quality of public spending in the social sectors via civil society oversight and involvement.

The objective of this paper is to review about 20 Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS) and related literature produced since the mid-1990s to identify common problems and lessons learned to improve the quality of public spending in the social sectors via civil society oversight and involvement.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2008
Main Contact: 
Courtney Tolmie
Author(s): 
Amanda Glassman, Loren Becker and Chinyere Bun
Funder(s): 
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Link to Publication-Resource: 
Go to resource
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconMonitoring-Quality-of-Public-Spending-in-the-Social-Sectors-pdf.pdf

Lessons From The World Bank's Public Expenditure Reviews, 2000-2007, For Improving The Effectiveness of Public Spending

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This paper reviews roughly 60 Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs) conducted by the World Bank in virtually all regions of the world, and defines common problems and proposed solutions to improve the impact, quality, and equity of public spending.

This paper reviews roughly 60 Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs) conducted by the World Bank in virtually all regions of the world, and defines common problems and proposed solutions to improve the impact, quality, and equity of public spending. The goal of the paper is to identify key issues in public expenditure that are common to many of the countries, focusing especially on the role that civil society can play in improving expenditure effectiveness.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2008
Main Contact: 
Courtney Tolmie
Author(s): 
Anil B. Deolalikar
Funder(s): 
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Link to Publication-Resource: 
Go to resource
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconFinal-revised-Deolalikar-PER-review.pdf

Amanda Folsom

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Program Director
Email: 
afolsom@resultsfordevelopment.org
Phone: 
+1.202.470.5735

Amanda Folsom is a Program Director at R4D. She focuses on health financing, health systems strengthening and capacity building.

 

Amanda Folsom has over 14 years of experience in global health policy, health systems, and health care financing. She is a Program Director at the Results for Development Institute (R4D) where she provides program management for the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN), a platform for exchange between countries implementing health financing reforms aimed at achieving universal health coverage.  Previously she led R4D’s work on the Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health (MLI), focusing on enhancing the capacity of ministries of health to effectively lead health care reforms,  and also participated in R4D’s technical work on private health sector assessments (Republic of Congo), policy translation, and the stewardship of mixed (public/private) health care systems.

Prior to joining R4D Ms. Folsom directed the AcademyHealth International Exchange Program, "Learning from Other Industrialized Health Systems," and worked on several complementary projects including the MacArthur Foundation initiative on the ethical recruitment of foreign-educated nurses, the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Knowledge Transfer program, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives.

Previously Ms. Folsom was Deputy Director for Program Evaluation and Legislation for the Maryland Medicaid program where she led several public program design, implementation, and evaluation efforts. She also worked with the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She served for two years as a U.S. Peace Corps community health volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Ms. Folsom is a graduate of the University of Virginia and holds a Masters in Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 

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