The 32nd PBF course took place between the 2nd and the 14th of December 2013 in Mombasa.
Hereby the course report
We had a total of 25 participants who took part in the last Mombasa course. The participants came from Nigeria (7), Zimbabwe (4), Malawi (4), Tanzania (3), Rwanda (3), DRC (1), South Sudan (1), Ethiopia (1) and Germany (1x). After completing the course, all sat for the PBF exam and five of them passed with distinctions.
During the final evaluation, one of the participants did propose that PBF can play an important role to reach Universal Health Care and that it would be a good idea if the World Bank can consider taking this up. He also suggested that SINA Health could present a paper outlining this position at the World Health Assembly so that a new Alma Ata type Declaration can be made. This would fast track member states towards PBF.
PBF courses can also be good fun
The participants from Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe discussed and designed the next steps of their respective PBF programs. Actually, this is very important because their countries are at crucial stages of deciding how to proceed with performance programs at the supply side (Tanzania and Malawi) and at the demand side (Zimbabwe). Rwanda participants seek to revitalise their national PBF programme, while Ethiopia and South Sudan still seek the best strategy to start PBF pilots.
The Nigeria pilot has very encouraging results and the issue of the scaling up was discussed by the seven participants.
Gary Asperas from EPOS worked on the issue of what consultancy firms can do in PBF. He identified feasibility studies, technical assistance, support for CDV Agencies and counter-verification activities. Government and aid agencies such as the World Bank should better identify the key roles of consultancy firms so that also commercially win-win situations can be created.
Antoine in Action
Another participant to the course was Alfred Antoine Uzabakiliho, who works in over ten countries to develop web-enabled applications for PBF approaches. He gave an impressive presentation to demonstrate online how the web-enabled application works in PBF. The cloud computing solution has great importance for transparency, accountability, benchmarking and good governance for government, local health systems and NGOs. It greatly facilitates the invoicing (payment calculation) process and reporting for PBF projects. Moreover, it offers a visibility and monitoring of the entire PBF process as well as the use of funds, which is great for engagement and transparency.
The course facilitation team consisted of Godelieve, Claire and Robert
The PBF journey ..
Joy during the Closing Ceremony when obtaining the PBF Certificates
