East Asia and Pacific

Projects

aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group

aids2031 is a international consortium of partners examining the future of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Costs and Financing Working Group is focused on modeling and analyzing the long-term costs and financing of the epidemic, and examining scenarios in which major policy shifts now can improve the future expenditure and financing situation.

Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

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.

Constraints to Vaccine Adoption in Lower and Middle Income Countries

Results for Development Institute (R4D) recently completed a study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on the challenges that Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs) face as they consider the adoption of new vaccines.

Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage

The Joint Learning Network (JLN) for Universal Health Coverage brings together countries from across the globe to share experiences and challenges in implementing health financing reforms.

Joint Learning Workshop: Moving Toward Universal Health Coverage

As a first step toward the development of an ongoing, multi-country cross-learning platform, several countries and their development partners convened a joint learning workshop in Delhi, India in February 2010. The workshop brought together practitioners from six countries to share learning around the successes and problem-solve around the challenges of implementing demand-side health financing reforms to expand health coverage.

Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability

The Strengthening Institutions Program, a joint program of the Global Development Network and R4D, aims to strengthen policy debates around public expenditure issues in developing countries by providing support to emerging think tanks to conduct analyses of spending in the health, education, and water sectors.

Transforming Health Systems Initiative (THS)

Transforming Health Systems is an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation that seeks to strengthen health systems by supporting global level analysis of policies that drive a global health systems agenda and country level work to implement catalytic demonstrations of health systems transformation.

Transparency & Accountability Program

Since its inception in 2006, the Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) has strengthened the capacity of independent monitoring organizations (IMOs) in low- and middle-income countries to better hold their governments accountable and to promote improvements in social sector public spending and service delivery.

Publications & Resources

R4D is committed to disseminating the tools and publications that emerge from our projects, in both print and electronic formats.

Reform of How Health Care is Paid for in China: Challenges and Opportunities

This paper looks at the challenges China faces in implementing reforms to improve how health care is paid for and ways in which these challenges can be met.

Human Resources for Health: Costing the Philippine Pre-Service HRH Scale-Up Plans

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

The Long-Run Costs and Financing of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia

How can Cambodia best fight its HIV/AIDS epidemic? This report examines the long-term costs and epidemiological projections of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia.

Obstacles to New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs

Lack of assistance has already led some Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs) to fall behind in requiring children to be vaccinated from vaccine-preventable diseases. This study analyzes the challenges LMICs face as they consider the adoption of new vaccines and identifies practical interventions to address issues uncovered.

News & Events

The Long-Run Costs and Financing of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia

The Long-Run Costs and Financing of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia was launched on December 21, 2010, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Robert Hecht, Results for Development Institute (R4D) Managing Director, presented the report findings at a meeting with the Cambodia Parliament.

Joint Learning Workshop brings together six countries to discuss universal health coverage

On February 3-5, R4D and its partners convened delegations from six countries – Ghana, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam - for a Joint Learning Workshop on Universal Health Coverage in Gurgaon, India. The three day workshop served as a forum for participants to share their experiences implementing health reforms and learn from other countries.