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Mobile Money for Health Case Study: Pathfinder Kenya

Digital Finance, Human Resources for Health, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications

Resource Type: Case Studies Authors: Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Published: 10/31/2015 Resource Description: This case study is one of 14 case studies profiled in the Mobile Money for Health Case Study Compendium. In 2012, Pathfinder Kenya launched the mHMtaani project (Swahili for “Mobile Health for my Community”), which aims to promote healthier communities through the use of […]

Mobile Money for Health

Digital Finance, Publications

Resource Type: White Paper Authors: Sherri Haas, Marilyn Heymann, Pamela Riley, and Abeba Taddese Published: 11/1/2013 Resource Description: Mobile money provides unique opportunities in the health sector. It can be integrated into existing activities—replacing cash flows—to improve efficiency, accountability, and transparency in financial transactions. It also opens up potential to improve scalability of subsidy and incentive schemes and […]

Report Analyzes Africa’s Health Financing Outlook

Announcements, Digital Finance

The first decade of the new millennium brought high-level advocacy to mobilize more funding for health coupled with unprecedented economic growth in some African countries. Given the region’s healthy economic outlook, will countries have adequate domestic resources for basic health services by 2020? The Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Project analyzed sub-Saharan Africa’s health financing […]

Promoting the Use of Mobile Money to Strengthen Health Systems: Applications for Health Care Financing

Digital Finance, Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Publications

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Published: 7/1/2013 Resource Description: Mobile phone-based financial transactions, commonly referred to as mobile money, promote financial inclusion and can be used to address key financial barriers to health care access for the poor, such as high out-of-pocket spending costs and prohibitive transportation costs to health facilities, especially in rural […]

Mobile Money for Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Digital Finance, Presentations

Advancing the Evidence Base USAID has multiple activities related to Mobile money and its promotion and HFG focuses on mobile money’s potential benefits to health systems. In this presentation made at the 2013 The International Health Economics Association (iHEA) conference in Sydney, Australia, HFG’s Thierry van Bastelaer introduces mobile money and its current and potential […]

Promoting the Use of Mobile Money to Strengthen Health Systems: Applications for Human Resources for Health

Digital Finance, Human Resources for Health, Publications

Resource Type: Activity Brief Authors: Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Published: 7/1/2013 Resource Description: Mobile phone-based financial transactions, commonly referred to as mobile money, promote financial inclusion and can be used to address key financial barriers to health care access for the poor. Cash payments in the health system carry security risks, increased vulnerability to fraud and leakage, […]

Promoting the Use of Mobile Money to Strengthen Health Systems

Digital Finance, Publications

Resource Type: Activity Brief Authors: Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Published: 5/1/2013 Resource Description: Through the HFG Project, USAID seeks to increase financial access for the poor and strengthen health systems by supporting the use of mobile phone-based payment mechanisms (mobile money) in health programming. Mobile phones are one of the fastest-spreading technologies, with over 3.2 billion individual […]

Mobile Money Defined

Digital Finance, Publications

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Published: 7/1/2013 Resource Description: Mobile money describes financial transactions that are conducted using a mobile phone, where value is stored virtually (e-money) in an account associated with a SIM card. Such transactions are compatible with basic phones and do not require internet access. Mobile money systems have the potential […]

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