Three articles recently posted on the Egyptian HIO website Health Insurance Organization (HIO) web site highlight work that Health Systems 20/20 is doing with the HIO, an enterprise that insures and provides health care services to more than half of the Egyptian population. More...

Performance-Based Incentives Primer for USAID Missions

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. Numerous developing countries, many with USAID support, are piloting and scaling-up PBI programs to improve health outcomes and make progress towards achieving the health Millennium Development Goals. However, PBI is not a solution for all problems in the health system and is not a substitute for investments in training, health facilities, and infrastructure. Each country context has to be assessed to understand the potential contribution of performance-based incentives to improving health outcomes.

Joining more than 2,500 attendees from around the world, Health Systems 20/20’s participation at the Global Health Council Conference covered a range of issues.

The past year marked significant efforts by the Health Systems 20/20’s Workforce Planning activity team to finalize the Workforce Planning Tool (WPT). The WPT is an Access-based application developed to assist Egypt’s Ministry of Health (MOH) to estimate health facilities’ staffing gaps.

‘Global Fund’s Support for Cross-Cutting  Health Systems Strengthening Interventions: A Reference Guide’ provides a basic orientation on why and how to use the Global Fund to support health systems strengthening.