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HealthProgrammes Management:Performance-based funding Approach
Michel ODIKA
Necessity for mapping and tracking resources…
To date, many countries still need to strengthen the use of strategicinformation
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to identifythe financial resources they already have, so thatthey can estimate where money is required. In this purpose, softwareprograms are developed around the world to address this specificproblem. Among other tasks, those programsprovide the platform for adatabase to support monitoring and evaluation. More specifically, they provide countries with the ability to store and analyze key indicators,projects and research data, and, not least, to exchange data with thosefrom other systems…
Overview of the challenge…
The flow of limited financialresources should (be managed in ways thatthey) go to wherethey are most needed. Subsequently, there is crucialneed for promoting Global Funds assigned to managingthe flow of grants by using the results achieved by grant-supported programmes,predominantly in countries classified as low-income. For instance, thoseGlobal Funds can be helpful in using performance-based funding to holdprogrammes to the commitments made in their proposals.It should also be noted that successful achievement of results improvesthe capacities of financing. For example, programmes that perform wellcan be given money at an accelerated rate, while those that performpoorly must be given money at a slower rate and may even be given less,so unused money can be transferred to better performing programmes.Special circumstances are taken into consideration at each stage, as areself-assessments that identify requirements for more technicalassistance. In general, however, the flow of funding is determined by thespeed of implementation and proven results.Performance-based funding has two core requirements:monitoring/evaluation
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and transparency
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.Interestingly, some countries
1. Michel ODIKA,
Health information systems: challenges and perspectives
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/16952496/Health-Information-Systems-Challenges-and-Perspectives).2. Monitoring and Evaluation primarily consist in harmonizing activities across countries by, forexample, creating standardized indicators, promoting the use of particular methods and developingtraining modules.
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