Makerere University School of Public Health (MUSPH) has been funded by the BMGF to anchor a Center for Digital Health Payment Initiatives & Research in Africa (DHPI-R). Our goal is to identify how, and under what circumstances digital worker payments can support effective campaign delivery. The insights will inform operationalization of this work, and movement towards the cross campaign digital payments. Still, it will enhance efforts to digitize payments for health workers by fostering and supporting evidence-based and evidence-driven decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Project Overall Objective
To identify how, and under what circumstances digital health workers payments can support effective campaign delivery.
The specific objectives of the project include:
- To lead a process of co-development of contextually relevant research agenda for the digitization of payment for health workers.
- To support the generation of contextually relevant high-quality research evidence on payment digitization for health workers in Africa.
- Through a community of practice, use a collaborative process to synthesize and share good practices, unintended outcomes, risks, and resolutions for various health worker digital payments in Africa.
- To garner local and international partner support and learning for actions aimed at enhancing the implementation of digitized payment systems for health workers across Africa.
- To build capacity among the academia and beyond on the use and evaluation of digital systems as a means of promoting the efficient payment of health workers and improved health outcomes for the population in SSA.