{"id":96,"date":"2013-01-25T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:11:46","slug":"afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/?page_id=96","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Start:<\/strong>\u00a02003 and\u00a02012<br \/>\n<strong>Phase:\u00a0<\/strong>RBF initiatives nationwide<br \/>\n<strong>Coverage Estimate:\u00a0<\/strong>RBF 100%, PBF applied in Uruzgan Province<br \/>\n<strong>Feasibility:\u00a0<\/strong>Reasonable<br \/>\n<strong>Supported by:\u00a0<\/strong>MOH; WB; Cordaid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:\u00a0<\/strong>RBF or general contracting through NGOs has been introduced since 2002. However, this is a Performance-Based Contracting approach with centralization, limited autonomy of health facilities, and no contracts with private health providers. NGOs tend to mix the roles of CDV Agency, financing, and provision. A successful &#8220;pure&#8221; PBF pilot was conducted by Cordaid in Uruzgan province in August 2012, with encouraging results, but it was not scaled up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Amelli, O. and W. Newbrander (2008). &#8220;Contracting for health services: effects of utilization and quality on the costs of the Basic Package of Health Services in Afghanistan.&#8221; Bulletin of the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Arur, A., D. Peters, et al. (2009). &#8220;Contracting for health and curative care use in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2005.&#8221; Health Policy and Planning.<\/p>\n<p>Loevinsohn, B. and G. D. Sayed (2008). &#8220;Lessons From the Health Sector in Afghanistan: How Progress Can Be Made in Challenging Circumstances.&#8221; JAMA 300(6): 724-726.<\/p>\n<p>Loevinsohn, B. (2008). Performance-Based Contracting for Health Services in Developing Countries: a toolkit. Washington DC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start:\u00a02003 and\u00a02012 Phase:\u00a0RBF initiatives nationwide Coverage Estimate:\u00a0RBF 100%, PBF applied in Uruzgan Province Feasibility:\u00a0Reasonable Supported by:\u00a0MOH; WB; Cordaid Description:\u00a0RBF or general contracting through NGOs has been introduced since 2002. However, this is a Performance-Based Contracting approach with centralization, limited autonomy of health facilities, and no contracts with private health providers. NGOs tend to mix the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":305,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5294,"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/5294"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}