Tag Archives: Rena Eichler

Integrating Financing of Vertical Health Programs: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Health Finance and Governance Project Published: September 2018 Resource Description: For better or worse, many low- and middle- income countries inherited vertical programs in which programming, financing, governance, and service delivery are all organized around an individual disease.  Governments must now decide whether a new government-managed financing scheme such as national or social health […]

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Advances in Health Finance & Governance: Knowledge and Learning Briefs

  The Advances in Health Finance & Governance Knowledge & Learning Brief Series is designed to highlight learning and lessons from the HFG project in nine core areas: domestic resource mobilization, strategic health purchasing, health financing strategies, expanding coverage through health insurance, financial data for decision making, governance, institutional capacity building, workforce and efficiency, and building […]

Strategic Purchasing to Support Voluntarism, Informed Choice, Quality and Accountability in Family Planning: Lessons from Results-Based Financing

Resource Type: Report Authors: Rena Eichler, Jenna Wright, Ben Bellows, Marie Cole, Victoria Boydell and Karen Hardee. Published: September 2018 Resource Description: The past 20 years have seen unprecedented financial commitment to family planning (FP) among governments of low- and middle-income countries and the donors that support them. However, mobilizing government and external resources is […]

A Review of Initiatives that Link Provider Payment with Quality Measurement of Maternal Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Resource Type: Journal Article Authors:  Jenna Wright and Rena Eichler Published: February 21, 2018 Resource Description: To reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality, health care payers are experimenting with ways to better align incentives to promote high-quality maternal health services. This review examined 26 recent initiatives of health care payers in 16 low- and middle-income countries […]

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Webcast | Advances in Health Finance & Governance Series: Strategic Health Purchasing

On Tuesday, February 20th, the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project hosted a roundtable on Strategic Health Purchasing at the Washington Learning Center in Arlington, Virginia. This event will focus on Strategic Health Purchasing, and the launch of the Unleashing the Potential of Strategic Purchasing learning brief. Speakers: Nicole Barcikowski, Director of Country Programs, Abt Associates, HFG Project Rena […]

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Unleashing the Potential of Strategic Purchasing

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Cheryl Cashin, Rena Eichler, Lauren Hartel Published: February 2018 Resource Description: If used effectively, strategic purchasing can enable a country’s health system to make the best use of available resources to serve the needs of its people and improve health outcomes, making it an attractive tool for countries working to achieve universal health […]

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