Healthy competition drives success in results-based aid: Lessons from the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Salud Mesoamérica Initiative (SMI) is a three-operation strategy, and is a pioneer in the world of results-based aid (RBA) in terms of the success it has achieved in improving health system inputs following its initial operation. This success in meeting pre-defined targets is rare in the world of financial assistance for health. We investigated the influential aspects of SMI that could have contributed to its effectiveness in improving health systems, with the aim of providing international donors, bilateral organizations, philanthropies, and recipient countries with new perspectives that can help increase the effectiveness of future assistance for health, specifically in the arena of RBA.

Methods

Qualitative methods based on the criteria of relevance and effe

SUBMITTER: El Bcheraoui C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5659784 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature