{"id":2143,"date":"2014-12-11T14:04:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T13:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2016-07-09T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T07:57:58","slug":"the-mombasa-pbf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"The December 2014 PBF course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2141\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Participants-42nd-PBF-course-e1418303759656.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2141\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Participants-42nd-PBF-course-e1418303759656.jpg\" alt=\"Participants 42nd PBF course\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants 42nd PBF course<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The 42nd PBF course ended\u00a0in Mombasa at 12\u00a0December 2014 and hereby the report.<\/p>\n<p>There were 25 participants. 14 from Nigeria, 3 from Uganda, 2 from Lesotho and Burundi and 1 from Malawi, Mozambique, Cameroon and Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>21\u00a0participants were from the health sector but there was also 1 participant from the\u00a0Local Government in Uganda, 1 from Civil Service Reform Commission in\u00a0Malawi, 1 from the education sector in Burundi and 1 participant from the Cordaid loan section in\u00a0Burundi.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2150\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-PBF-journey-is-not-always-smooth-e1418303946490.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2150\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-PBF-journey-is-not-always-smooth-e1418303946490.jpg\" alt=\"The PBF journey is not always smooth\" width=\"350\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The PBF journey is not always smooth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Studies\u00a0published in November 2014\u00a0\u00a0showed that PBF worked in Burundi. Yet, at the same time the studies also provide warnings that if the underlying best practices in PBF are not maintained\u00a0that there will be no results. We learn from our colleagues in Burundi that there are still problems in the implementation of PBF with large delays in the payment of the subsidies, the essential drugs distribution system that still has monopolistic characteristics and the health facilities are less autonomous than desired.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2142\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PBF-initiation-42nd-cours-e1418303665580.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2142\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PBF-initiation-42nd-cours-e1418303665580.jpg\" alt=\"PBF initiation of course participants\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PBF initiation of course participants<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Problems in Lesotho concern the slow roll out of the project while the Uganda PBF program is still reviewing\u00a0how the successful Jinja pilot can be scaled up. EGPAF Mozambique is doing well in Xai-Xai and Nampula\u00a0provinces but they may need to\u00a0improve its design so that it will create ownership and buy-in also from the government.<\/p>\n<p>The representatives from the Local Government in Uganda and the Civil Service Reform Commission in Malawi propose to initiative new multi-sector PBF programs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 42nd PBF course ended\u00a0in Mombasa at 12\u00a0December 2014 and hereby the report. There were 25 participants. 14 from Nigeria, 3 from Uganda, 2 from Lesotho and Burundi and 1 from Malawi, Mozambique, Cameroon and Zambia. 21\u00a0participants were from the health sector but there was also 1 participant from the\u00a0Local Government in Uganda, 1 from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sina-health.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}