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The most promising new paradigm calls for providing aid based on results, without … demanding adherence to particular plans.

Foreign aid has no shortage of critics. Some argue that it undermines development and inherently does more harm than good; others insist that aid must be seriously reformed to work properly. Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works.Public and private aid can improve lives in poor countries, but the willingness of taxpayers and private funders to finance aid programs depends more than ever on showing results. COD Aid is a funding mechan

Although mandatory health insurance programs are being proposed or expanded in many developing countries, relatively little attention has been given to how these programs are governed. The available literature focuses almost exclusively on operational features that are important but will necessarily change over time-such as eligibility, benefit packages, and premiums. Governing Mandatory Health Insurance instead looks at the institutional and political forces that affect the behavior of such programs within their social and historical contexts and how five dimensions of governance-coherent decision-making structures, stakeholder participation, transparency and information, supervision and regulation, and consistency and stability-can influence the long-term performance of health insurance programs in terms of coverage, financial protection, efficiency, and sustainability. Governing Mandatory Health Insurance addresses these issues by drawing on the experiences of four countries-Chile, Costa Rica, Estonia, and the Netherlands. It shows how governance works in these countries and extracts lessons for developing countries with mandatory health insurance programs, focusing on the mechanisms for assuring solvency, financial protection, and health care services of good quality.

Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Taking Funds From Public Coffers -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Closing Opportunities for Corruption in the Health Sector -- Chapter 2 Fighting Fraud in Hospitals -- Chapter 3 Embezzlement of Donor Funding in Health Projects -- Chapter 4 Reducing Vulnerabilities to Corruption in User Fee Systems -- Part Two: Demanding Payment Where Services Should Be Free -- Chapter 5 Informal Pay and the Quality of Health Care: Lessons From Tanzania -- Chapter 6 Strategies for Reducing Informal Payments -- Part Three: Manipulating Procurement and Drug Supply -- Chapter 7 Pay for Honesty? Lessons on Wages and Corruption from Public Hospitals -- Chapter 8 Preventing Drug Diversion Through Supply Chain Management -- Chapter 9 The Impact of Information and Accountability on Hospital Procurement Corruption -- Chapter 10 Transparency and Accountability in an Electronic Era: The Case of Pharmaceutical Procurement -- Part Four: Restoring Integrity Through Transparency and Accountability -- Chapter 11 Transparency in Health Programs -- Chapter 12 Using Financial Performance Monitoring to Promote Transparency and Accountability in Health Systems -- Chapter 13 Budget Transparency, Civil Society and Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- K -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.