On 12th September 2011, the second year training for Rungwe Performance Based Financing (PBF) Pilot project started at Romanc Catholic church Youth Centre based in Tukuyu. The training will be ten days, from 12th Sept to 22nd September 2011. The training is being facilitated by KCMC team, Zonal PBF Coordinator and one facilitator from Igogwe Hospital. The training objectives are enable participants: firstly, to provide participants with an understanding of the relationships between national policies, health policy and economic policies and how they are influenced by Performance Based Financing. Secondly to understand the objectives, theories, best practices and instruments of Performance Base Financing and thirdly to provide participants with knowledge and skills to enable them to improve the implementation of PBF in their work place.
What make this training peculiar is that it is mainly conducted in Swahili language, unlike last year which was in English and Swahili.
There are 20 participants, 14 are from Faith Based organization (FBOs) health facilities and 6 are from government owned health facilities.
The training was officially opened by the District Medical Officer (DMO), Rungwe District – Dr. N. Sungwa. In his opening speech, he thanked the KCMC team for coming all way to conducting PBF Training in Rungwe. Again, he thanked the participants for the response to attend this important course. The DMO expressed that PBF pilot project is promising, but its implementation is tricky as basic prerequisite are not in place, referring to the policies which either need to be changed or adapt new ones. However, he argued participants to study hard as the course is important for widening their scope on new health financing and for institutions they represent to effect change. Additionally, he pointed out efforts done by the district, which include adopting some PBF principles, to start with they have set target to reach on Vaccination and Outreach; whereby if the staff reach target of over 80% they will be paid some kind of bonus.
Importantly, he noted the efforts to sign service agreement between Itete and Igogwe Hospitals with Rungwe District Council next month on maternal and neonatal Child health and under five years.
The DMO further said that, he expect to see the performance of health facilities whose staff are taking part in this training to increase in terms of service coverage such as vaccination coverage, institutional delivery, and drugs supply. He, challenged the trainees to be change agents when they go back to their facilities. Finally Dr. Manongi, the PBF Training Coordinator from KCMC, thanked the DMO for the motivating and a well articulated opening speech.
Seated in front of participants: Second from right is the DMO Rungwe,
and followed by PBF Training Coordinator from KCMC- Dr. Manongi and
the Chairperson for the course on the left side. First from the right is the course
participant.
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