The endline survey of the impact evaluation for Health Performance-Based Financing (PBF) in Burkina Faso was conducted in six regions of Burkina Faso from April to June 2017.
The main objective of the impact evaluation is to assess the impact of the PBF intervention on quality of care and health care utilization for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health services, while the baseline survey provides the empirical foundation for the assessment of impacts on a large variety of indicators. The baseline data collection for the impact evaluation took place between October 2013 and March 2014.
The impact evaluation innovates by assessing the combination of PBF with two sets of additional measures to enhance equity, community-based targeting of the ultra-poor and subsidization of health services provided to them; and community-based health insurance. PBF was implemented at the district level in both primary- and secondary-level health facilities - with control districts in the same regions. The study used a blended experimental and quasi-experimental design, including both randomization of the standard PBF and PBF plus the additional equity measures at the facility-level within PBF districts to test the effects of these equity measures on outcomes of interest (experimental part), and a comparison of PBF districts to matched control districts to test the effects of PBF (pooled across all intervention arms with and without equity measures) compared to status quo (quasi-experimental part).