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Pay for Performance (P4P) to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries: Findings from an Online Survey

In April-May 2009, the USAID-supported Health Systems 20/20 project implemented an online survey to capture developing country experience with pay for performance (P4P) – a strategy that is increasingly being introduced with the goal of improving maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes.

This survey’s purpose is to begin to fill an important gap by addressing a number of questions, namely: what health concerns are developing country P4P schemes primarily targeting? Where are these schemes being planned, introduced, and scaled-up? How are they being designed and implemented? Who is managing them? And what, if any, evidence is there on critical factors to ensure their desired impact?

Author: Alix Beith, Rena Eichler, Ellie Brown, Dane Button, Catherine Connor, Natasha Hsi, Parsa Sanjana, Kimberly Switlick, and Hong Wang
Published: Jul 1 2009