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From the Ground Up: Improving Government Performance with Independent Monitoring Organizations

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From the Ground Up argues that the international community’s efforts to improve public expenditure and budget execution decisions would be more effective if done in collaboration with local independent monitoring organizations.

From the Ground Up argues that the international community’s efforts to improve public expenditure and budget execution decisions would be more effective if done in collaboration with local independent monitoring organizations.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2010
R4D Author(s): 
Courtney Tolmie
Author(s): 
Dr. Stephen Kosack, Charles C. Griffin
Funder(s): 
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Connected Project: 
The Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP)

Innovative Financing for Education

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In this paper, R4D Managing Director Nicholas Burnett and Oxford University Visiting Research Fellow Desmond Bermingham draw upon their extensive knowledge of education and on R4D’s work on innovative finance in other areas to examine how innovative financing can be applied to mobilize funds for education.

The education sector has yet to harness the benefits of innovative financing mechanisms for development, as has been the case in other sectors like health.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
R4D Author(s): 
Nicholas Burnett
Author(s): 
Desmond Bermingham
Attached Publications & Resources: 
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Getting inclusive education back on track after the financial crisis

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This article by Managing Director Nicholas Burnett appears in the March 2010 Issue of Global magazine. It discusses the impact of the global economic crisis on achieving inclusive education and addresses areas of opportunity to ensure the realization of "Education for All."

In order to meet the educational needs of the poor and provide quality basic education for all children, youth and adults, it is essential to secure additional resources and explore more innovative forms of financing – at both the domestic and the international level. This article by Managing Director Nicholas Burnett appears in the March 2010 Issue of Global magazine.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Journal Articles
Year Published: 
2010
Main Contact: 
Nicholas Burnett
R4D Author(s): 
Nicholas Burnett
Attached Publications & Resources: 
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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: 
Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health
Attached Publications & Resources: 
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Assessing Innovations in Global Health R&D Policy and Financing

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R4D is leading the formation of an assessment center for innovative global health R&D policy and finance proposals. The focus is on proposed new ideas aimed at accelerating the development of drugs and other health technologies for neglected diseases. Visit www.healthresearchpolicy.org to learn more.

The Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment website is now live.

Visit www.healthresearchpolicy.org to read the latest blogs and learn more about current assessments. Additionally, read below for more details on this project.

Main Contact: 
Amrita Palriwala
Website: 
http://www.healthresearchpolicy.org
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Aarthi Rao
Amrita Palriwala
Kimberly Manno Reott
Robert Hecht

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
Christina Synowiec
Donika Dimovska
Gina Lagomarsino
Maria Belenky
Attached File(s): 
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The Cost of Antiretrovirals

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This paper assesses the costs of antiretroviral drug (ARV) procurement and identifies policies that could help to lower costs, improve efficiency, and thereby ensure sustainable long-term access to ARVs by low and middle income countries.

This paper assesses the costs of antiretroviral drug (ARV) procurement and identifies policies that could help to lower costs, improve efficiency, and thereby ensure sustainable long-term access to ARVs by low and middle income countries.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2009
Main Contact: 
Carleigh Krubiner
Author(s): 
Veronika Wirtz, Steven Forsythe, Atanacio Valencia-Mendoza, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Yared Ana-Tellez
Funder(s): 
UNAIDS
Connected Project: 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Attached Publications & Resources: 
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The Cost of Antiretrovirals.pdf

What Countries Can Do Now: Twenty-Nine Actions to Scale-Up and Improve the Health Workforce

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This document explains seven financing and economic issues that matter for health workforce scale-up and financing. It then states twenty-nine actions that policy-makers could take right away to address the issues, independent of any long-term HRH interventions in progress.

Health workers play a critical role in the provision of health care and represent the single largest cost element in providing health services in low-income countries. Many of the poorest countries in the world have been unable to meet the pressing health needs of their populations. Millions of people die prematurely, or suffer from illness or disability unnecessarily, because appropriate human resources for health (HRH) to provide care are not available to them.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2008
Main Contact: 
Dessi Dimitrova
R4D Author(s): 
Dessi Dimitrova
R4D Author(s): 
Marty Makinen
Funder(s): 
Global Health Workforce Alliance
Connected Project: 
Global Health Workforce Alliance
Link to Publication-Resource: 
Available by request

aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group

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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.

Over the past 25 years, AIDS has imposed a huge cost, in economic and social terms, on many countries, communities, and households around the world. At the same time, the price tag to respond fully and effectively in the areas of prevention, care and treatment, mitigation, and research has grown to tens of billions of dollars, and is continuing to increase. There have been dramatic increases in funding, but available resources are now becoming increasingly tight as the global recession adversely impacts both donor and developing countries, and as other competing priorities (e.g.

Main Contact: 
Carleigh Krubiner
Website: 
http://www.aids2031.org
Duration: 
March, 2008 - June, 2010
Funder: 
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
UNAIDS
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Carleigh Krubiner
David de Ferranti
Kira Thorien
Richard Skolnik
Robert Hecht
William McGreevey

Public stewardship of private providers in mixed health systems: Synthesis report from the Rockefeller Foundation—sponsored initiative on the role of the private sector in health systems

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This report outlines the large and complex private markets for healthcare and emphasizes the importance of effective stewardship by governments of their country’s health system, especially given the reality that the private (non-state) part of the system is large and complex, with major challenges and significant opportunities.

Drawing extensively on the findings of a 2008 review sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation (resulting in 14 reports) and on the vast other literature on the private health sector and health systems, this report by authors from the Results for Development Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation, outlines the large and complex private markets for healthcare and emphasizes the importance of effective stewardship by governments of their country’s health system, especially given the reality that the private (non-state) part of the system is large and complex, with major challenges and s

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2009
Main Contact: 
Sapna Singh Kundra
R4D Author(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
R4D Author(s): 
Sapna Singh Kundra
Author(s): 
Stefan Nachuk, Rockefeller Foundation
Funder(s): 
The Rockefeller Foundation
Connected Project: 
The Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems
Connected Project: 
Transforming Health Systems Initiative (THS)
Version: 
1
Attached Publications & Resources: 
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Public Stewardship of Private Providers in Mixed Health Systems.pdf
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