Performance-based incentives (PBI), a strategy that links payment to results achieved, is a potentially powerful catalyst to strengthen health systems and achieve health targets. PBI contributes to an enhanced focus on results-oriented health systems strengthening activities and the objectives of demand creation, quality improvement, and making providers more accountable.

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His Excellency (HE), the Minister of Health, Prof. Dr. Hatem El Gabaly, defined NHA as a key tool in improving the effectiveness of health systems to achieve Egypt’s health reform objectives in opening a two-day NHA workshop in Cairo March 31-April 1.

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Leadership and management training is an essential ingredient in any strategy aimed at bringing about organizational change to strengthen health services. Health Systems 20/20, in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Health (MOH), recently announced plans to establish a “Leadership Academy” as a sustainable Egyptian institution to build management capacities within the public health care system. Leading MOH officials and health experts gathered in Cairo in January for an orientation session to launch plans for the Academy.

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Health Systems 20/20 launches National Health Accounts database, a platform for sharing policy impact stories from around the globe. Add your own policy impact story and win a trip to the 2009 NHA Symposium.

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As in most African countries, Cote d’Ivoire is facing a crisis in human resources for health (HRH) worsened by a high HIV-AIDS prevalence (4.7%) and a civil war from 2002 to 2007. Many health workers have fled from the northern regions to seek refuge in the capital city, Abidjan. At a World Bank event on January 14, 2009, Gilbert Kombe shared insights from Health Systems 20/20 work to develop innovative and sustainable interventions to address the health labor crisis.

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A new policy brief issued by Health Systems 20/20 on clarifying the transition and the role of NGOs on humanitarian and post-conflict assistance to fragile states. More...

USAID's flagship health systems strengthening project, Health Systems 20/20, was invited to share their experience with the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) related to building health systems at the country level.

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Sponsored by USAID, AUSAID, the Center for Global Development, Norad and the World Bank, this regional workshop welcomes 16 teams of three “stakeholders” from countries in Asia to learn about the Pay for Performance (P4P) approach to health system strengthening.

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August 4, 2008 — The USAID-funded Health Systems 20/20 project is pleased to announce that HIV/AIDS and health systems expert Ann Lion Coleman has assumed the position of Health Systems 20/20 Project Director, effective today. Health Systems 20/20 is the USAID Bureau of Global Health's flagship project working to strengthen health systems by using an integrated approach to address the financing, governance, operational, and capacity constraints to further the use of life-saving priority health services. The project is implemented by a consortium of partners led by Abt Associates Inc.

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Mutual health organizations (MHOs) are voluntary membership organizations providing health insurance services to their members. MHOs aim to increase access to health care by reducing out-of-pocket payments faced by households. Health Systems 20/20 and Abt staff members Slavea Chankova, Sara Sulzbach, and François Diop co-authored an article entitled "Impact of Mutual Health Organizations: Evidence from West Africa" recently published in Health Policy and Planning. More...

Health Systems 20/20 invites you to attend two workshops at the Global Health Council Conference on Tuesday, May, 27, 2008.

• Planning for Sustainable HIV/AIDS Services Using HAPSAT Software: A Hands-On Training
  (W4) 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
  Congressional Room B, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
• Demystifying Health Systems: How to Access the Strengths and Weaknesses of a Health Care System
  (W7) 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  Congressional Room B, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC

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The Dominican Republic, site of the first Latin American and Caribbean National Health Accounts (LACNHA) Network workshop held ten years ago, hosted a seminar April 23-26, 2008 in Bayaibe to share regional experiences on NHA and subaccount work, foster the methodological standardization for regional NHA comparability, and reactivate the LACNHA Network. More...

Working directly with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Health Systems 20/20 has successfully launched National Health Accounts (NHA) in Liberia. NHA is a tool being used today in more than 50 low- and middle-income countries to measure total public and private national health expenditures. Click here to read more about our work in Liberia.

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International Women's Day is March 8, 2008. To celebrate, Health Systems 20/20 is highlighting two projects in Yemen that showcase the efforts of women to improve health locally and nationally.

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Jointly with the Point-of-Service Water Disinfection and Zinc Treatment (POUZN) project, Health Systems 20/20 launched a pilot program February 13, 2008 in Nyagatare District to promote and distribute the Sûr’Eau water product in the Eastern Province of Rwanda, capitalizing on well established community-based health insurance (CBHI or mutuelle de santé) organization channels and membership in the area. The CBHI 2007 enrollment rate in the District of Nyagatare is 81%. More...

A new policy brief issued by Health Systems 20/20 on the threat that weak governance poses to the allocation of health resources in the developing world.

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