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- Clinical Trial NCT03890653
Impact Evaluation of the Nigeria Result-Based Financing Project
Impact Evaluation of the Nigeria State Health Program Investment Credit (NSHPIC)
The World Bank and the government of Nigeria are implementing a results-based financing (RBF) project for the states of Nasarawa, Adamawa, and Ondo. This project provides incentives for improving performance at critical levels within the Nigerian health system and aims to address some of these challenges. The primary goal of the impact evaluation of this project is to determine if providing financial incentives linked directly to performance increases the quantity and quality of maternal and child health (MCH) services.
In each of the three selected States,the project finances the following interventions:
- Performance incentives to State Government and Local Government (LGA) agencies that are triggered by Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs) that reflect strengthened supervision and enhanced operational support for improving health systems performance. These performance incentives would be paid out on an annual basis.
- In half of the LGAs in each state, one facility per ward will receive Performance-Based Financing (PBF) wherein payments are made directly to individual health facilities based on the quantity and quality of a set of pre-defined services provided by each facility. These performance incentives would be paid out on a quarterly basis.
- In the other half of the LGAs in each state one facility per ward will receive Decentralized Facility Financing (DFF) or equivalent financing that is not be linked to any service delivery targets. These payments would be made on a quarterly basis.
The evaluation of the PBF arm, which consists of making payments to health facilities conditional on performance, but within an environment of comparable levels of overall financing, will rely on experimental assignment. The effect of the PBF intervention will be identified by comparing outcomes in the LGAs receiving PBF versus those receiving DFF in the three project states. In each of these three States, the LGAs will be randomly assigned to either the PBF package or to the DFF package.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- All health facility staff in the states of Nasarawa, Adamawa and Ondo attending to maternity patients in the study period.
- Selected mothers recently utilizing the same facilities if consent is provided.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. None.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
- Allocation: RANDOMIZED
- Interventional Model: PARALLEL
- Masking: NONE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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EXPERIMENTAL: Performance-Based Financing
At least one primary healthcare centre per ward and one General Hospital per selected LGA (in 50% of LGAs in each of the 3 states) and one secondary hospital per State will be contracted by the State Primary Health Care Development Agency ) , to deliver specified services at an agreed price.
Selection of which services to focus on is based on priorities identified by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the states in 2010-2015.
Initial prices for each service were based on shadow prices of providing the service and have been adjusted based on implementation experience.
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Incentive-based payments
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EXPERIMENTAL: Decentralized Facility Financing
In the other half of the LGA's in each treated state, at least one facility per ward will receive Decentralized Facility Financing (DFF) or equivalent financing that is not be linked to any service delivery targets.
These payments would be made on a quarterly basis.
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Financing not linked to service delivery.
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NO_INTERVENTION: Control
This is a pure control arm with no additional interventions.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Utilization of priority maternal and child health services
Time Frame: Each health facility assessed over a period of two days.
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The utilization of priority MCH services, as defined by the quantitative checklist used by the project to measure and reward facility performance.
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Each health facility assessed over a period of two days.
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Utilization of priority maternal and child health services, particularly by the poor
Time Frame: Each health facility assessed over a period of two days.
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The utilization of priority MCH services, as defined by the quantitative checklist used by the project to measure and reward facility performance, by poor households.
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Each health facility assessed over a period of two days.
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Aggregated Provider Performance through Direct Clinical Observation
Time Frame: Each health provider assessed over a period of one day.
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We use data on direct clinical observations of labor and delivery to construct an aggregate measure of provider performance.
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Each health provider assessed over a period of one day.
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Aggregate Structural and Process Quality Index
Time Frame: Each health facility assessed over a period of two days.
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The quantitative checklist used in the government program is replicated to a large degree in the impact evaluation survey.
We construct independent observations on aggregate structural and process quality measures in the same fashion as the program has constructed and rewarded.
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Each health facility assessed over a period of two days.
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Eeshani Kandpal, PhD, World Bank
Publications and helpful links
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (ACTUAL)
Primary Completion (ACTUAL)
Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (ACTUAL)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- P128175
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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