Resources

Principles of Health Systems Resilience in the Context of COVID-19 Response
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2020
Description: A research brief which outlines the key principles for promoting resilient health systems in the face of the challenge of Covid-19

The Impact of Leaving Camps on Well‐being of Internally Displaced Persons in Northern Uganda
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2020
Description: Paper that explores the estimated changes in internally displaced persons' well‐being having left transit camps in 2006 following armed conflict in Northern Uganda.

Results-based financing as a strategic purchasing intervention: some progress but much further to go in Zimbabwe?
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2020
Description: Paper that examines how RBF impacts on health care purchasing in the context of Zimbabwe’s national programme.

Performance-Based Financing, Basic Packages of Health Services and User-Fee Exemption Mechanisms: An Analysis of Health-Financing Policy Integration in Three Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2020
Description: This comparative study looks at whether and how PBF is aligned to and integrated with national health-financing strategies, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings

Health financing policy in fragile & conflict-affected situations
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2020
Description: Two reports from ReBUILD members, produced for the WHO - 'Health financing policy in fragile & conflict-affected situations' - a health financing guide for FCAS and the associated background report

A summary of ReBUILD's research themes, projects and related outputs
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2019
Description: A summary document giving an overview of the projects and research themes which have made up ReBUILD’s work.

Les systèmes de santé après un conflit - éléments probants en faveur de meilleures politiques et pratiques
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2019
Description: Ces documents de synthèse décrivent les thèmes principaux issus des recherches de ReBUILD, ainsi qu’un aperçu du programme et de son large éventail de projets de recherche jusqu'en 2016.

Establishing a responsive & equitable health workforce post-conflict & post-crisis: lessons from ReBUILD research
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2019
Description: Human resources for health is the most expensive, complex and critical health system pillar, and one with more political ramifications – it is crucial to learn lessons about how to rebuild it effectively post-conflict. This brief highlights some of the main findings on HRH and recommendations from ReBUILD’s research.

'Leaving no one behind' presentation videos
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2019
Description: Presentations recorded during the session 'Leaving No One Behind - how can evidence-based approaches support progress towards UHC and global health goals during conflict and protracted crises?', part of the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in October 2018 in Liverpool.

(How) does RBF strengthen strategic purchasing of health care? Comparing the experience of Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2019
Description: Paper on how RBF strengthens the strategic purchasing of health care in Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

“Posting policies don’t change because there is peace or war”
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2019
Description: Paper on how deployment policies and practices were adapted during the conflict and post-conflict periods in the Acholi region in Uganda

Health financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings: What do we know, seven years on?
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2019
Description: Paper looking at literature on health systems research in fragile and conflict-affected settings and how it has changed in the last seven years

Flexibility of deployment: challenges and policy options for retaining health workers during crisis in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2019
Description: Paper on how flexibility in the implementation of deployment policies during crises may increase the resilience of the system and contribute to the retention of health workers.

The political economy of results-base financing: the experience of the healthsystem in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2019
Description: Paper on the political economy factors behind the adoption of the RBF policy in Zimbabwe, as well as the shifts in influence and resources which RBF may bring about.

Health system strengthening—Reflections on its meaning, assessment and our state of knowledge
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2019
Description: Paper on the process of undertaking a health systems strengthening intervention review, drawing out suggestions on definitions and approaches to assessment, as well as summarising key conclusions from the current evidence base.

Socio-cultural change in conflict and post conflict settings: five decades of giving birth in Cambodia
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2019
Description: Paper that explores the changing experience of giving birth in Cambodia over a 53-year period. During this time, Cambodian people experienced armed conflict, extreme privation, foreign invasion, and civil unrest.

Evidence review of what works for health systems strengthening, where and when?
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2019
Description: Evidence review commissioned by the UK's DFID looking at what works for health systems strengthening, where and when?

Political economy approaches to explore PBF’s adoption, adaption and implementation in fragile settings
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2019
Description: Presentation given by Maria Bertone at the International Health Economics Association congress in Basel July 2019

Health system strengthening – what is it, how should we assess it, and does it work?
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2019
Description: Presentation given by Professor Sophie Witter to the Department for International Development

Resources from ReBUILD’s work on health worker incentives and deployment in post-conflict and post-crisis settings
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This document includes details of all outputs from ReBUILD's work on human resources for health in post-conflict and post-crisis settings.

Resources from ReBUILD’s work on health worker incentives in Sierra Leone, and on health worker experiences during the Ebola outbreak
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: Details of all outputs from ReBUILD's work on health worker incentives and remuneration in Sierra Leone, and on health worker experiences during the Ebola outbreak.

Resources from ReBUILD’s work on health financing in conflict-affected and post-conflict settings
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: Health financing in conflict-affected and post-conflict settings: Resources from ReBUILD’s work

Summary of ReBUILD’s research themes, projects and outputs 2018
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This short document outlines ReBUILD's research projects from both the original phase and the short extension phase of the programme. It includes links to further information on the projects and their outputs.

Performance-based financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings - a summary
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This brief presents key messages from and a summary of ReBUILD's research into performance-based financing

Gender and Community Health Worker programmes in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Findings from Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: Based on findings from ReBUILD's research project on community health workers in fragile and conflict-affected settings, this brief provides recommendations and guidance for practitioners and policy makers on the ways their workforce may be affected by gender norms, and actions to address them.

How gender infuences the service provided by Community Health Workers in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This booklet presents the findings of a photovoice project into how gender infuences the service provided by Community Health Workers in Sierra Leone

Insights on health systems and Community Health Workers from a photovoice project in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This booklet presents the findings of a photovoice project into health systems and Community Health Workers in Sierra Leone

Leaving no one behind; how can evidence-based approaches support progress towards UHC and global health goals during conflict and protracted crises?
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This briefing paper has been produced ahead of an organised session at HSR2018, outlining the background context of health service delivery in conflict and protracted crises, current developments and initiatives to improve coordination and approaches to support both humanitarian and development objectives, and the challenges and issues for the use of evidence to support these efforts.

Responding to humanitarian crises in ways that strengthen longer-term health systems: What do we know?
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018

Improving deployment of human resources for health in Zimbabwe in the context of crisis
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This brief outlines key findings and recommendations from ReBUILD's study of health worker deployment in Zimbabwe

MANAGING THE TRANSITION FROM HUMANITARIAN TO DEVELOPMENT AID - SYMPOSIUM BRIEFING
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: Briefing booklet and programme produced for the East African Regional Symposium on Aid Effectiveness and Health Systemson

East Africa Symposium on Transitioning from Humanitarian to Development Aid. Day 1 bulletin
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This bulletin presents the highlights from the first day's proceedings at the East Africa Symposium on Transitioning from Humanitarian to Development Aid in Kampala.

East Africa Symposium on Transitioning from Humanitarian to Development Aid. Day 2 bulletin
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This bulletin presents the highlights from the second day's proceedings at the East Africa Symposium on Transitioning from Humanitarian to Development Aid in Kampala. 15th - 16th August 2018.

Managing the Transition from Humanitarian to Development Aid: East African Symposium on Aid Effectiveness and Health Systems Development - Key messages brief
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This brief document outlines the key messages highlighted by participants at the East African Regional Symposium on Aid Effectiveness and Health Systems, held on 15th/16th August in Kampala.

Health systems during and after crisis: evidence for better policy and practice
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This series of ReBUILD briefing papers addresses some key questions related to health systems strengthening in settings affected by conflict or crisis.

ReBUILD briefings addressing gender, vulnerable groups and intersectionality
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018

ReBUILD cross cutting and synthesis non peer reviewed outputs
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018

Les systèmes de santé pendant et après une crise : éléments probants en faveur de meilleures politiques et pratiques
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: Cette série de documents de synthèse, fruit des recherches menées par ReBUILD, aborde un nombre de questions clés concernant le renforcement des systèmes de santé dans les contextes affectés par un conflit ou une crise.

Conflict, household structure and health-seeking behaviour: the Cambodian experience
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: This briefing note presents findings from ReBUILD’s research in Cambodia on the demographic and distributional impacts of conflicts and implications for health systems.

Resources from ReBUILD's research on gender in post-conflict health systems
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2018
Description: Details of all outputs from ReBUILD's work on gender and post-conflict health systems.

Health systems after conflict – ReBUILD Consortium
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Video of Tim Martieanu of the ReBUILD Consortium speaking at a World Health Assembly side event

Integrating gender into health system strengthening in conflict and crisis-affected settings
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Recording of a webinar on integrating gender into health system strengthening in conflict and crisis-affected settings

Performance-based financing video
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Video of Maria Bertone of ReBUILD speaking on the consortium's work on performance-based financing in fragile and post-conflict states

Community health workers in Sierra Leone video
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Video of Haja Wurie of ReBUILD speaking on the consortium's work on community health workers in Sierra Leone

Health worker incentives in post-conflict Zimbabwe video
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Yotamu Chirwa of ReBUILD and Biomedical Training and Research Institute, Zimbabwe on health worker incentives in post-conflict Zimbabwe

Video on aid effectiveness and health systems development in post-conflict northern Uganda
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Freddie Ssengooba of ReBUILD talks about the consortium's work on aid effectiveness and health systems development in post-conflict northern Uganda

Video on health worker deployment policies in conflict-affected northern Uganda
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Richard Ayiasi Mangwi of ReBUILD talks about health worker deployment policies in conflict-affected northern Uganda

Video on gender in post-conflict health systems with a focus on Northern Uganda
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Professor Sarah Ssali speaks about gender in post-conflict health systems with a focus on Northern Uganda.

Video on a study into career progression amongst women in the post-conflict Cambodian health system
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Sreytouch Vong on a study into career progression amongst women in the post-conflict Cambodian health system

Video on understanding human resources for health recruitment and deployment in post-conflict settings
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Alvaro Alonso-Garbayo speaks about understanding human resources for health recruitment and deployment in post-conflict settings

Webinar - Performance-based financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings: from research to practice
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Recording of a webinar on the impact of PBF research on practice in fragile and conflict-affected settings

Video introduction to performance-based financing
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Professor Sophie Witter speaks about performance-based financing as a way to build strategic purchasing in fragile and conflict-affected states.

Video on health financing in fragile and conflict-affected states
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Professor Sophie Witter speaks about health financing in fragile and conflict-affected states

Video - 'The bumpy trajectory of performance-based financing for healthcare in Sierra Leone'
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Dr Maria Bertone speaks about performance-based financing for healthcare in Sierra Leone

Videos - performance-based financing presentations from HSR 2018
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2018
Description: Three presentations on performance-based financing filmed during the 2018 Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research

What adaptation to research is needed following crises: a comparative, qualitative study of the health workforce in Sierra Leone and Nepal
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2018
Description: This paper critically presents the approaches and findings of two health systems research projects that explored and evaluated health worker performance and how these were adapted during crises. It provides lessons learnt on re-orientating research when the unexpected occurs.

Context matters (but how and why?) A hypothesis-led literature review of performance based financing in fragile and conflict-affected health systems
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2018
Description: Paper by Professor Sophie Witter of the ReBUILD Consortium on performance-based financing in fragile and conflict-affected health systems and the importance of context in their creation and analysis

Health workers’ experiences of coping with the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone’s health system: a qualitative study
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2018
Description: A qualitative study by Dr Joanna Raven, Dr Haja Wurie and Professor Sophie Witter of the ReBUILD Consortium on health workers’ experiences of coping with the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone’ s health system

Performance-based financing in three humanitarian settings: principles and pragmatism
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2018
Description: Paper by Professor Sophie Witter of the ReBUILD Consortium on performance-based financing in fragile and conflict-affected health systems and the importance of context in their creation

Internal contracting of health services in Cambodia: drivers for change and lessons learned after a decade of external contracting
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2018
Description: This paper reports an investigation into how the Cambodian Ministry of Health implemented the ‘Special Operating Agencies’ (SOA) model of internal contracting since 2009, and identifies effects on service delivery, challenges in operation and lessons learned.

Are health systems interventions gender blind? Examining health system reconstruction in conflict affected states
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2018
Description: This paper examines if and how rebuilding health systems affected gender equity in four post-conflict contexts.

The bumpy trajectory of performance-based financing for healthcare in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2018
Description: Paper on performance-based financing for healthcare in Sierra Leone

Understanding HRH recruitment in post-conflict settings: an analysis of central-level policies and processes in Timor-Leste (1999–2018)
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2018
Description: This paper reports on a study into how the HRH recruitment policies changed in Timor-Leste from 1999 - 2018, the drivers of change and their contribution to rebuilding an appropriate health workforce

Evaluation of the “Institutional capacity development for multi-disciplinary health research to support the health system ReBUILDing phase in Sierra Leone” (RECAP-SL) project
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2018
Description: Evaluation of the “Institutional capacity development for multi-disciplinary health research to support the health system ReBUILDing phase in Sierra Leone” (RECAP-SL) project

Supporting community health workers in fragile settings: evidence from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Democratic Republic of Congo
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2018
Description: Poster presented at the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Liverpool in October 2018 on supporting community health workers in fragile settings

The political economy of results-based financing: the experience of the health system in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2018
Description: Poster presented at the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Liverpool in October 2018 on the political economy of results-based financing

Health Systems in Situations of Fragility
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2018
Description: Presentation given by Professor Sophie Witter on 17th May 2018 for the American University of Beirut Global Health Institute's Webinar series: "Global Health and Conflict". This webinar theme: Health Systems in Situations of Fragility.

Health financing in fragile and conflict affected settings
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2018
Description: Presentation given by Sophie Witter at a satellite session on "Health financing in fragile & conflict affected settings - controversies and innovations" at the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Liverpool, on 8th October 2018.

Investigating results-based financing as a tool for strategic purchasing: comparing the cases of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Uganda
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2018
Description: Presentation given by Maria Paula Bertone at a Satellite session of the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Reseach, on "Payment for Performance, how, why, where and what? Learning from research across income settings. Tuesday 9th October 2018.

The bumpy trajectory of performance-based financing in Sierra Leone: agency, structure and frames shaping the policy process
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2018
Description: Presentation given by Maria Paula Bertone at the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Reseach in Liverpool on Wednesday 10th October 2018.

The impacts of conflict on access to health care: missing generation and disability in Cambodia
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2018
Description: Presentation given by Bandeth Ros at the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Liverpool, on Wednesday 10th October 2018.

Etat des connaissances sur le renforcement des systèmes de santé dans les contextes fragiles
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2018
Description: Presentation (French language) on the state of knowledge on health systems in fragile contexts, given by Professor Sophie WItter at an International Workshop at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp on 16th October 2018.

The changing health care needs of communities and health system responses in fragile settings
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2018
Description: Presentation given by Tim Martineau at the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Liverpool, in October 2018.

Performance-based financing as a way to build strategic purchasing in fragile and conflict affected settings: potential and pitfalls
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2018
Description: Presentation given by Sophie Witter at a Satellite Session on "Payment for Performance, how, why, where and what?", at the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Liverpool, on 9th October 2018.

Promoting women’s leadership in the post-conflict health sector in Cambodia
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2017
Description: This brief describes findings from research conducted by RinGs and ReBUILD on women's leadership in the health sector in Battambang province, Cambodia

Resilience of health systems during and after crises – what does it mean and how can it be enhanced?
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2017
Description: This policy brief summarises different aspects of health system resilience, its measurement, and strategies for enhancing resilience during and after crises.

Resilience in health systems - responses to key questions
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2017
Description: This briefing note provides collective responses from three health systems research consortia to some key questions on health systems resilience raised by DFID advisors.

Developing inclusive health systems in crisis-affected settings
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2017
Description: This policy brief highlights the ways in which health systems reinforce the marginalisation of some social groups, and then summarises the effects of crises on inclusiveness and the interventions that can protect and enhance equity for those marginalised.

How to move towards universal health coverage in crisis-affected settings: lessons from research
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2017
Description: This policy brief reviews the meaning of universal health coverage (UHC) and summarises lessons for achieving UHC in crisis-affected settings.

How do different types of provider affect access to effective and affordable healthcare during and after crises?
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2017
Description: This brief summarises the key characteristics of the different types of providers and the health services they offer, and discusses their involvement in health crises and possible interventions that can increase access to effective and affordable healthcare during and after crises.

The political economy of crisis-affected settings: what does it mean for investments in health systems?
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2017
Description: This brief reviews key elements in the response to crises from a political economy perspective, evidence on the opportunities and challenges presented by crises, and lessons in how to best utilise those opportunities to promote investment in health systems.

Do health systems contribute to reduced fragility and state-building during and after crises?
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2017
Description: This brief discusses the associations between health systems and state-building and the empirical evidence in this area.

Sustainability of health systems in crisis-affected settings: lessons for practice
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2017
Description: This policy brief reviews key dimensions of sustainability and their relevance for crisis-affected settings, then presents lessons for encouraging sustainability in these settings.

Developing health system research capacity in crisis-affected settings: why and how?
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2017
Description: This brief outlines the meaning of health system research capacity, the particular needs for such research capacity in crisis-affected settings, and key lessons for future policy, building on the broad experience of the ReBUILD Consortium and tacit knowledge of the ReBUILD partnership as well as wider literature

Evolution of policies on human resources for health: opportunities and constraints in four post-conflict and post-crisis settings
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This article draws on ReBUILD’s research on human resources for health across four post-conflict settings, shedding light on the patterns and drivers of post-conflict policy-making. It explores whether the post-conflict period offers increased chances for the opening of ‘windows for opportunity’ for change and reform and the potential to reset health systems.

Experiences of using life histories with health workers in post-conflict and crisis settings: methodological reflections
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This paper examines the ReBUILD programme’s experience of using life histories to explore health system trajectories coming out of conflict through the eyes of health workers. The paper shows how life histories with health staff can be a very powerful tool, particularly in contexts where routine data sources are absent or weak, and where health workers constitute a marginalized community.

Impact of health financing policies in Cambodia: A 20 year experience
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This paper reports on some of the findings from ReBUILD’s quantitative research into post-conflict health financing policies in Cambodia.

The role of women's leadership and gender equity in leadership and health system strengthening
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This new paper from the RinGs programme explores gender and leadership in the health sector, and includes case studies by two ReBUILD researchers.

Health systems research in fragile and conflict affected states: a qualitative study of associated challenges
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: Following on from the recent paper on a research agenda on a research agenda-setting exercise for health systems research in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS), the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in fragile and conflict-affected states has published a follow-up paper on the challenges to doing health systems research in these settings.

Sub-national assessment of aid effectiveness: A case study of post-conflict districts in Uganda
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This paper reports on ReBUILD’s research in northern Uganda, undertaken to assess the aid-effectiveness in post-conflict districts of the country. The study looked at aid relationships among actors at sub-national level, who represent a vital lever for health system development.

Application of social network analysis in the assessment of organization infrastructure for service delivery: a three district case study from post-conflict northern Uganda
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This paper reports on ReBUILD’s research on aid effectiveness in northern Uganda, which assessed the inter-organization infrastructure that supports the provision of selected health services in the reconstruction phase after conflict in northern Uganda. Using social network analysis, the study looked at the structure, size and function among organizations supporting the provision HIV treatment, maternal delivery services and workforce strengthening.

Leaving no one behind: lessons on rebuilding health systems in conflict and crisis-affected states
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This paper draws on the breadth of ReBUILD’s phase 1 research into key issues of health systems strengthening in conflict and crisis-affected settings, and how these could be addressed. It describes three major themes which have emerged from an analysis of this work, to inform policy makers and practitioners.

Minding the gaps: health financing, universal health coverage and gender
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: Following a RinGs webinar on health financing and gender in 2015, this paper reflects on why we need to focus on gender in moving towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), based on the inputs of a panel of health financing and gender experts.

The commercialization of traditional medicine in modern Cambodia
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This article describes findings from ReBUILD’s research in Cambodia as part of the Health financing: Post-conflict access and equity for the poor project, which took place in all four core partner countries. This paper focuses on changes in the traditional medicine sector after Cambodia’s long period of conflict, and how these changes have affected households’ access to services, and the risk of impoverishment.

How do health workers experience and cope with shocks? Learning from four fragile and conflict-affected health systems in Uganda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Cambodia
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This article draws together lessons from ReBUILD’s research on health worker incentives in northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Cambodia – settings affected by very different conflicts and crises. The authors captured insights from interviews with health workers who had remained in service through these periods, including the impact of shocks, coping strategies, workers’ inventiveness and examples of resilience.

Why do people become health workers? Analysis from life histories in four post‐conflict and post‐crisis countries
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This article from ReBUILD’s health worker incentives research examines health workers’ motivation to join the profession, based on life history interviews conducted in northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and Zimbabwe.

Changes in catastrophic health expenditure in post-conflict Sierra Leone: an Oaxaca-blinder decomposition analysis
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This paper is based on the quantitative elements of ReBUILD’s research on health financing and post-conflict access and equity for the poor. The authors examine how households’ exposure to financial risks associated with seeking healthcare evolved in post-conflict Sierra Leone. They conclude that there remains a need to continue expanding current demand-side policies in Sierra Leone to reduce the financial risk of exposure to ill health.

The gendered health workforce: mixed methods analysis from four fragile and post-conflict contexts
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: It is well known that the health workforce composition is influenced by gender relations. However, little research has been done which examines the experiences of health workers through a gender lens, especially in fragile and post-conflict states. This paper presents mixed method research on HRH in four fragile and post-conflict contexts with different histories, to understand how gender influences the health workforce.

Psychosocial support for adolescent girls in post-conflict settings: beyond a health systems approach
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2017
Description: This publication focuses on the importance of psychosocial support services for adolescent girls in fragile contexts.

Understanding deployment policies and systems for staffing rural areas in Northern Uganda during and after the conflict: synthesis report
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2017
Description: Working Paper from ReBUILD's research into deployment systems for health workers in remote and rural areas in Uganda.

Incentives for health workers to stay in post and in rural areas: findings from four conflict- and crisis-affected countries
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2017
Description: This working paper presents a cross-cutting analysis of ReBUILD’s research into health worker incentives in four post-crisis settings (northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Zimbabwe) to understand the context, system and personal factors which helped to motivate and retain them in public or private not-for-profit service.

Assessing Aid Effectiveness: a case study of post-conflict northern Uganda
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2017
Description: Presentation on ReBUILD's research into aid effectiveness and health system actors and networks in post-conflict northern Uganda. Given to ReBUILD Researchers' Forum meeting on 28th September 2017

Learning Support Tool on Gender and Health Systems
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2017
Description: This learning support tool was developed by ReBUILD, RinGs and the EU DEVCO B4 to help improve considerations of gender in health systems strengthening, through the work of health staff in EU delegations.

Maintaining an effective health workforce during and after conflict: Evidence from ReBUILD’s research in northern Uganda
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: This research brief gives an overview and key findings/recommendations from ReBUILD's research on health worker incentives in northern Uganda

Outputs from the project Health Workers’ Remuneration, Incentives and Accountability in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: This page lists all outputs from the project Health Workers’ Remuneration, Incentives and Accountability in Sierra Leone

Aid Effectiveness assessment
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: This brief outlines the approach used and conclusions from part of the ReBUILD's Aid Effectiveness research in northern Uganda.

Key messages from ReBUILD Research in Uganda
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: This brief outlines the key messages which have come from ReBUILD's research on health financing, health workforce and aid effectiveness in post-conflict northern Uganda

A STRONG PUBLIC HEALTH SECTOR KEY FOR HEALTH SYSTEM RESILIENCE IN GULU DISTRICT, NORTHERN UGANDA
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: First of two briefs from ReBUILD's research on health system financing and households' coping strategies for health care needs in post-conflict northern Uganda.

ReBUILDing Health Systems Beyond Health Facilities
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: This brief is one of two briefs from ReBUILD's research on health system financing and households' coping strategies for health care needs in post-conflict northern Uganda.

Attraction and retention of Health Workers in Northern Uganda: Implications for faster reconstruction and Universal Coverage?
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: This brief outlines findings and recommendations from ReBUILD's research on health worker incentives research in post-conflict northern Uganda, in support of universal health coverage.

Health systems after conflict – evidence for better policy and practice
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: These briefs outline the main themes which have come from ReBUILD’s research, as well as an overview of the programme, its research projects, and how the themes developed from these.

Evidence submitted to High Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016

The ReBUILD programme and emerging themes for health systems strengthening in post-conflict and post-crisis settings
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: This brief outlines the main themes on health systems in post-conflict and post-crisis settings which came from the first phase of the ReBUILD programme, and the range of research projects which gave rise to these findings and themes.

Health financing policy in conflict affected settings - lessons from ReBUILD research
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: This brief outlines the findings from ReBUILD’s phase 1 research on health financing policies in post-conflict settings and how these have affected access to health care for the most vulnerable populations.

Establishing a responsive and equitable health workforce post-conflict and post-crisis - lessons from ReBUILD research
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: This brief outlines the findings from ReBUILD’s phase 1 research on health workers in post-conflict settings.

Institutions for strong and equitable health systems after conflict and crisis - lessons from ReBUILD research
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2016
Description: This brief outlines the findings from ReBUILD’s phase 1 research informing the theme of institutions in post-conflict health systems.

Health systems in post conflict Uganda - ReBUILD video
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2016
Description: From ReBUILD's partners at Makerere University School of Public Health - an overview of the context and issues covered by the team's research on the post-conflict health system in northern Uganda.

Health systems after conflict – ReBUILD Consortium
Resource Type: Videos
Year: 2016
Description: Video outlining key issues of post-conflict health systems and themes emerging from ReBUILD's research.

The free health care initiative: how has it affected health workers in Sierra Leone?
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: In this paper published in Health Policy and Planning, ReBUILD researchers Sophie Witter, Haja Wurie and Maria Bertone explore the effects and implications for health staff of Sierra Leone’s introduction in 2010 of the Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI).

Exploring the influence of context and policy on health district productivity in Cambodia
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: Despite gains in life expectancy and increased health expenditure, Cambodia still lags behind neighbours in many health indicators. This article aims to understand variations in efficiency of public health services, and the extent to which changes in efficiency are associated with key health policies that have been introduced to strengthen access to health services over the past decade.

Retention of health workers in rural Sierra Leone: findings from life histories
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: This article, published in Human Resources for Health, reports the findings from ReBUILD’s qualitative work in Sierra Leone on health worker incentives.

Sources, determinants and utilization of health workers’ revenues: evidence from Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: This paper investigates the entire set of formal and informal payments available to health workers (HWs) in Sierra Leone, through combined quantitative and qualitative approaches. The paper shows the fragmented nature of remuneration, and heterogeneity in the importance of different income sources. It describes the ways HWs are ‘managing’ in order to ensure their livelihoods and those of their families. The findings have important policy implications for financial incentive strategies.

Health worker experiences of and movement between public and private not-for-profit sectors – findings from post-conflict Northern Uganda
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: This paper looks at the experiences of health workers during and after the 20 years of conflict in northern Uganda, and the factors that influenced their movement between public and private not-for-profit sectors. The findings highlight the need to ensure balanced health labour market incentives which take into account not only the changing context but also needs at different points in individuals’ life cycles and across all core service delivery sectors.

Using life histories to explore gendered experiences of conflict in Gulu District, northern Uganda: Implications for post-conflict health reconstruction
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: This article discusses how the life histories approach was used to explore how the 20-year conflict in northern Uganda transformed people's lives. Presenting the experiences of 47 men and women before, during and after the war in northern Uganda, and how gender and power(lessness) shaped their experiences, it explores the implications for health care reconstruction.

Free health care for under-fives, expectant and recent mothers? Evaluating the impact of Sierra Leone’s free health care initiative
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: This paper reports the findings of a study evaluating the impact of Sierra Leone’s 2010 Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI). It uses two nationally representative surveys to identify the impact of the policy on utilisation of maternal care services by pregnant women and recent mothers as well as the impact on curative health care services and out-of-pocket payments for consultation and prescription in children under the age of 5 years.

Performance-based financing in the context of the complex remuneration of health workers: findings from a mixed-method study in rural Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: The study investigates the absolute and relative contribution of performance-based financing (PBF) to health workers’ income and explores their views on PBF bonuses, in comparison to and interaction with other incomes. The study confirms the complex and interrelated nature of health workers’ remuneration and that the different financial incentives cannot be examined independently from one. It also shows that the way PBF schemes are implemented has an impact on health worker motivation.

Can positive inquiry strengthen obstetric referral systems in Cambodia?
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: This paper draws on ReBUILD's Responsive Fund project “Obstetric Referral in the Cambodian Health System - What Works?” This project was conducted by the Nuffield Centre for International Health & Development, University of Leeds and Cambodian Development Research Institute.

Health systems research in fragile and conflict-affected states: a research agenda-setting exercise
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: This paper reports on a research needs setting exercise carried out by the HSG Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict Affected States (TWG-FCAS).

Building post-conflict health systems: a gender analysis from Northern Uganda
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: This chapter in the Handbook on Gender and Health analyses research conducted by the ReBUILD consortium in Northern Uganda to explore the extent to which gender equity has been considered and realized in the post-conflict reconstruction of the heath sector.

Challenges and progress in implementing the women, peace and security agenda: two case studies
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2016
Description: This section of the SIPRI yearbook chapter describes two case studies that highlight the challenges and progress in implementing the women, peace and security agenda: women’s participation in security sector reform and the work to prevent gender based violence in conflict and post-conflict reconstruction of health systems.

Understanding health worker incentives in three districts of Zimbabwe: survey report
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2016
Description: This is a report from the qualitative component of ReBUILD's health worker incentives research in Zimbabwe, based on a survey of 227 health workers in three districts of Zimbabwewith health workers

Impact of user fees on health care seeking behaviour and financial protection during the crisis period in Zimbabwe: A life history approach
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2016
Description: This report presents the findings and recommendations from part of ReBUILD’s qualitative health financing research in Zimbabwe, using the life histories approach.

Application of Social Network Analysis in the Assessment of Organizational Infrastructure for Service Delivery: A Case Study From Post-conflict Northern Uganda
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2016
Description: Draft working paper from ReBUILD's research into aid architecture in northern Uganda

Report of Sierra Leone Human Resources for Health Summit 2-3 June 2016
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2016
Description: This is the report of a Summit held in May 2016, to kick-started a process to refresh and relaunch Sierra Leone’s Human Resources for Health Policy and Strategic Plan by the end of 2016.

‘Fighting a battle’: Ebola, health workers and the health system in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2016
Description: This working paper reports on ReBUILD's project "Ebola in Sierra Leone: effects on health workers and the health system and lessons for future health system reconstruction"

The evolution of human resources for health policies in post-conflict Cambodia: findings from key informant interviews and document reviews
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2016
Description: This working paper presents the findings from Cambodia of two research tools used as part of ReBUILD's research into the evolution of health worker incentives in four post-conflict contexts (Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zimbabwe) in order to understand how to establish equitable access to quality health care in these health systems.

Learning from the experiences of health workers in conflict-affected Cambodia to improve motivation and retention: analysis of life histories
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2016
Description: This working paper reports on the life-histories component of ReBUILD's sub-study on health worker incentives in Cambodia. It is part of ReBUILD's wider research into the evolution of health worker incentives in four post-conflict contexts (Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zimbabwe) in order to understand how to establish equitable access to quality health care in these health systems.

Deployment of Human Resources for Health in Zimbabwe: Synthesis report
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2016
Description: Report from ReBUILD's research into health worker deployment in Zimbabwe

Health worker experiences of and movement between public and private not-for-profit (PNFP) sectors in post conflict Northern Uganda: Lessons for health system resilience
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from ReBUILD's health worker incentives study in Uganda, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada.

Building a resilient health system post Ebola: voices of health workers from Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from ReBUILD's study on health worker experiences of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada

Fostering development of sustainable incentive policies for a resilient health workforce: lessons from post crisis Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from ReBUILD's health worker incentives study in Zimbabwe, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada.

Understanding factors that can promote resilience during and after economic crises: how to retain and motivate health workers at rural health facilities in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from ReBUILD's health worker incentives study in Zimbabwe, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada.

Becoming more effective actors for evidence-based health systems policy and practice; Experiences of research, research uptake and capacity-building from the ReBUILD research programme consortium
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster on ReBUILD's experiences of research uptake and capacity building at national and international levels, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada.

Adapting official deployment policies for staffing rural areas to build resilient health systems during conflict: lessons from northern Uganda
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from ReBUILD's health worker deployment study in Uganda, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada.

Difficult Choices in Health Care Decisions Pre, During and Post Conflict in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from ReBUILD's health financing study in Sierra Leone, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada

More flexibility in the use of deployment policies: the challenge of retaining health workers in post crisis settings in remote areas of Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016

Impact of the policy to freeze posts on the deployment of health workers after the crisis in rural Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from ReBUILD's health worker deployment study in Zimbabwe, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada

Data collection on rural posting /deployment of health workers in post crisis settings: A case of rural Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from ReBUILD's health worker deployment study in Zimbabwe, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada

Why aren’t women rising to the top? Gender in Cambodia’s Health Workforce and Leadership
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from RinGs small grant project in Cambodia, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada

What do health workers do, and why? A study of the activities performed by primary healthcare workers in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from ReBUILD/LSHTM affiliate study on Health Workers’ Remuneration, Incentives and Accountability in Sierra Leone, presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada

‘Leaving no one behind’: protecting vulnerable groups in fragile and conflict-affected situations
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2016
Description: Poster from ReBUILD's cross-country study on people’s health needs and health seeking behaviour before, during and after conflict. This poster was presented at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 16th-18th November, Vancouver, Canada

Human Resources in Fragile and Conflict-Affected settings - cross sectoral issues between health and education
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2016
Description: Overview presentation by Tim Martineau for seminar on human resources in health and education in fragile and conflict affected settings, organised by HEART in June 2016.

Human Resources for Health in Post-Conflict settings - Findings from ReBUILD research
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2016
Description: Presentation given in June 2016 by Sophie Witter on the ReBUILD programme's findings on Human Resources for Health in Post-Conflict settings, at a meeting exploring cross-sectoral learning on human resources in health and education sectors in fragile settings

Health systems in post-conflict states - Learning from the ReBUILD programme
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2016
Description: Presentation given by Joanna Raven on ReBUILD's work on health systems in post-conflict states, at a Workshop on Rebuilding Health in Yemen after Conflict, 4th June 2016 in Liverpool

Evidence for supporting a health workforce for all in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2016
Description: Complete presentations given by ReBUILD team at a stakeholder meeting on "Evidence for supporting a health workforce for all in Sierra Leone", held on 28th January 2016 in Freetown

Health workforce recruitment and financing – selected issues for consideration
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2016
Description: Presentation given by Tim Martineau at the Human Resources for Health Summit in Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2nd June 2016.

Can donors really build institutions? Reflections on recent health sector experiences in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2016

How to promote a resilient health workforce in conflict affected settings - insights from four countries
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2016
Description: Combined presentations from a ReBUILD panel session at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Vancouver, Canada, on 18th November 2016

Health financing and UHC - what's gender got to do with it?
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2016
Description: Presentation made by Sophie Witter at DFID lunchtime seminar 19th January 2016

Using life histories to understand and support health systems and their resilience
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2016
Description: Presentation given during a skills-building session on the use of life histories in health systems research, given at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in VAncouver, 15th November 2016

Emergency Obstetric Referral in Cambodia: A Teaching Case study
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2016
Description: A Case Study for District Referral Systems: Critical Emergency Referral in Cambodia

Using life histories to understand and support health systems and their resilience
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2016
Description: Presentation given during a skills-building session on the use of life histories in health systems research, given at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in VAncouver, 15th November 2016

Impact of user fees on health care seeking behaviour and financial protection during the crisis period in Zimbabwe: A life history approach
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2016
Description: This report presents the findings and recommendations from part of ReBUILD’s qualitative health financing research in Zimbabwe, using the life histories approach.

Health worker experiences of and movement between public and private not-for-profit sectors – findings from post-conflict Northern Uganda
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2016
Description: This paper looks at the experiences of health workers during and after the 20 years of conflict in northern Uganda, and the factors that influenced their movement between public and private not-for-profit sectors. The findings highlight the need to ensure balanced health labour market incentives which take into account not only the changing context but also needs at different points in individuals’ life cycles and across all core service delivery sectors.

Using life histories to explore gendered experiences of conflict in Gulu District, northern Uganda: Implications for post-conflict health reconstruction
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2016
Description: This article discusses how the life histories approach was used to explore how the 20-year conflict in northern Uganda transformed people's lives. Presenting the experiences of 47 men and women before, during and after the war in northern Uganda, and how gender and power(lessness) shaped their experiences, it explores the implications for health care reconstruction.

Retention of health workers in rural Sierra Leone: findings from life histories
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2016
Description: This article, published in Human Resources for Health, reports the findings from ReBUILD’s qualitative work in Sierra Leone on health worker incentives.

Synthesis report research tools - Rebuilding adolescent girls lives_mental health and psychosocial support in conflict-affected Gaza Liberia and Sri Lanka
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2016
Description: This output details the data collection instruments relating to the ReBUILD synthesis report with the same title

From public to private and back again: Lessons Learned from Internal Contracting in Cambodia
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: This brief provides a summary of ReBUILD’s research done on health contracting in Cambodia, and identifies key points relating to the impact of the Special Operating Agency (SOA) model on service coverage and equity.

Evaluating the impact of the Special Operating Agency
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: Following on from ReBUILD’s study of health contracting arrangements in Cambodia, which concluded that a more robust evaluation of the Special Operating Agency model should be considered, this briefing outlines two options that could be considered for such an evaluation.

ReBUILD Progress Update February 2015
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: This briefing note provides a summary update of ReBUILD's progress across the whole range of its research themes and focus countries, as of February 2015.

Evidence and proposals for advancing equity and universal coverage of health services in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: This policy brief outlines the main findings and proposals from the research project conducted by ReBUILD's partners in Zimbabwe on Rebuilding the foundations for universal health coverage with equity in Zimbabwe.

Joint submission to APPG-Africa Inquiry into Community-led health systems and the Ebola outbreak
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: ReBUILD, together with the REACHOUT and COUNTDOWN RPC, produced this joint submission of evidence in response to a call from the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Africa's Inquiry on community-led health systems and the Ebola outbreak.

Evidence for supporting a skilled health workforce for all in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: This brief outlines ReBUILD’s research on health worker incentives in Sierra Leone, and gives recommendations for the postEbola recovery strategy, based on the research findings, focusing on the strand for in-creasing a skilled workforce, especially in under-served areas.

Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile & Conflict Affected States - Flyer
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: November 2015 Flyer on objectives and activities of the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile & Conflict Affected States

Research to inform health systems development - An overview of the ReBUILD RPC in Cambodia
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: Brief outlining ReBUILD's research in Cambodia produced for the Health Researchers' Forum in November 2015

The challenge of retaining health workers in Zimbabwe: Implications for Universal Health Coverage
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: This brief was produced for the Zimbabwe Health Research Forum on Evidence for Advancing Universal Health Coverage in March 2015, based on ReBUILD's Health Worker Incentives research presented at that meeting.

Health financing and the budgets of the poor in Zimbabwe Implications for Universal Health Coverage
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: This brief was produced for the Zimbabwe Health Research Forum on Evidence for Advancing Universal Health Coverage in March 2015, based on ReBUILD's health systems financing research presented at that meeting.

Building on our Assets – What works in Cambodia’s obstetric referral system?
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: A brief outlining the ReBUILD Responsive Fund project on Access to obstetric care and referral in rural Cambodia, produced for the Cambodia Health Researchers' Forum in November 2015.

The challenge of retaining health workers in Zimbabwe: findings from ReBUILD research
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015
Description: A briefing paper summarising the findings ReBUILD's work on health worker incentives in ZImbabwe and giving policy recommendations

Exploring the remuneration of primary healthcare workers: findings on incomes and income use strategies in Sierra Leone. What lessons can be learnt to design effective financial incentives?
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015

Incentives to improve health workers’ retention and motivation: implementation challenges and informal practices at district level. The role of DHMTs and NGOs
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2015

State-building and human resources for health in fragile and conflict-affected states: exploring the linkages
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2015
Description: Whilst human resources for health are self-evidently critical to running a health service and system, this paper explores a broader issue of the contribution which health staff might play in relation to the wider state-building processes.

The complex remuneration of human resources for health in low-income settings: policy implications and a research agenda for designing effective financial incentives
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2015
Description: This paper argues that research focusing on the health workers’ “complex remuneration” is critical to address some of the most challenging issues affecting human resources for health. An empirical research agenda is proposed to fill the gap in our understanding.

An exploration of the political economy dynamics shaping health worker incentives in three districts in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2015
Description: This paper focuses on health worker incentives and payment practices in Sierra Leone and presents an empirical exploration of implementation processes at district level. It finds that ‘bargaining’ between NGOs and DHMT reshapes HRH incentives, and that improving coordination within districts is critical. Factors that contributed to the collapse of healthcare with Ebola are identified.

Failing Adolescents: Social Control, Political Economy & Human Development in post-war Sri Lanka
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2015
Description: In post-war societies adolescents occupy liminal spaces and present a particular challenge for post-war communities as well as service providers. This paper draws on a study from two war-affected villages in Sri Lanka, examining the multi-faceted challenges that adolescents face in communities attempting to retain and redefine boundaries, identities, and social and moral regulation in a post-war context.

Ebola in the context of conflict affected states and health systems: case studies of Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2015
Description: Ebola seems to be a particular risk in conflict affected settings. This paper compares the experience of Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone in the emergence and management of Ebola outbreaks in 2000-1 and in 2014-15 respectively, and how elements of these conflict affected societies affected the disease outbreak and the response.

Health service resilience in Yobe state, Nigeria in the context of the Boko Haram insurgency: a systems dynamics analysis using group model building
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2015
Description: This paper describes findings from a case study on the health system in Yobe state in northern Nigeria during the Boko Haram insurgency, part of the ReBUILD affiliate project on Health Systems Resilience: A Systems Analysis.

Gender equality needs critical consideration in conflict-affected settings
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2015
Description: The World Bank's 2012 World Development Report calls for gender equality on a global level but falls short on its analysis of conflict-affected contexts. In this viewpoint piece, the authors argue that it is critical to understand the needs of vulnerable populations in these settings.

Health worker incentives: survey report, Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: As part of the wider ReBUILD work on health worker incentives and motivation in Sierra Leone, this report describes findings of a survey of health workers to understand their working patterns, sources of remuneration and motivation, and how these had changed in recent years.

Catastrophic Payments and Poverty in Cambodia: Evidence from Cambodia Socio-Economic Surveys 2004-11
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: As part of ReBUILD's research into the effects on households of health financing policies in post conflict Cambodia, this paper looks at catastrophic health payments and their impoverishing effects, using data from the Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey between 2004-2011.

Evidence for advancing Universal Health Coverage in Zimbabwe: Report of the National Research Forum, 19th/20th March 2015
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This is a report of the National Research Forum: Evidence for advancing Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Zimbabwe held on 19th/20th March 2015 in Harare, by the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and the Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC) in collaboration with the Technical Working Group on Universal Health Coverage with support from the ReBUILD Consortium.

National Research Forum: Evidence for advancing Universal Health Coverage in Zimbabwe ABSTRACTS
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This document contains all abstracts from presentations made at the National Research Forum: Evidence for advancing Universal Health Coverage in Zimbabwe, held on 19th/20th March 2015 in Harare.

Mental health and psychosocial support service provision for adolescent girls in post-conflict settings, a culturally sensitive response
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: The is the research report of the second stage of a ReBUILD-funded study, conducted by ODI (UK) and The Good Practice Group (Sri Lanka), which sought to assess if existing services and other responses to the mental health and psychosocial problems experienced by adolescent girls in Sri Lanka’s post-conflict settings are sufficiently informed by an understanding of context, gender and socio-cultural norms.

Adolescent psychosocial wellbeing in the post conflict context of Sri Lanka - Summary country report: stage 1
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: The is the research report from the first phase of fieldwork of a ReBUILD-funded study, conducted by ODI (UK) and The Good Practice Group (Sri Lanka). The overall study seeks to assess if existing services and other responses to the mental health and psychosocial problems experienced by adolescent girls in Sri Lanka’s post-conflict settings are sufficiently informed by an understanding of context, gender and socio-cultural norms.

Mental health and psychosocial service provision for adolescent girls in post-conflict settings
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This literature review, part of a ReBUILD-funded study, conducted by the Overseas Development Institute, looks into the methodologies and recent developments in our understanding of mental health and psychosocial service provision for adolescent girls in post-conflict settings.

Key health and conflict related indicators in Liberia and Sri Lanka: background report
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This background report, part of a ReBUILD-funded study conducted by the Overseas Development Institute, looks at the broader impact of conflicts on health and the provision of health services in Liberia and Sri Lanka.

Impact of Health Financing Policies on Household Spending: Evidence from Cambodia Socio-Economic Surveys 2004 and 2009
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This report presents the findings and recommendations from part of ReBUILD’s quantitative health financing research in Cambodia, in which the 2004 and 2009 Cambodia Socio-Economic Surveys are used to measure the impact of user fees, health equity funds, the government health subsidy scheme, vouchers and various combinations of these policies on household health spending.

A Case Study of Maternal Health Service Provision in OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape, in the Context of Chronic Poor Health Performance.
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: Report from ReBUILD’s affiliate research project on health systems resilience conducted by Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University: A Case Study of Maternal Health Service Provision in OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape, in the Context of Chronic Poor Health Performance.

Understanding Contracting in Cambodia The performance of contracting and non-contracting districts in extending primary health coverage: analysis of secondary data
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This research report describes findings from the quantitative component of ReBUILD's research into health contracting in Cambodia.

Understanding contracting in Cambodia: findings from interviews with key informants and health service managers and providers
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This research report describes findings from the qualitative component of ReBUILD's research into health contracting in Cambodia

Mapping and Planning Health Systems Research in Cambodia: Building the evidence base for policy and practice. Report of the Cambodia Health Researchers' Forum
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This is the meeting report for the Cambodia Health Systems Researchers' Forum "Mapping and Planning Health Systems Research in Cambodia: Building the evidence base for policy and practice", held on 11th November 2015 in Phnom Penh

Understanding health worker incentives in post-crisis settings: policies to attract and retain public health workers in Zimbabwe: key informant interviews
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: Report from the key informant interview component of ReBUILD's health worker incentives study in Zimbabwe

Understanding health worker incentives in post-crisis settings: lessons from health worker in-depth interviews and life histories in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This is a report from the qualitative component of ReBUILD's health worker incentives research in Zimbabwe, drawing on the 'life histories' interviews with health workers

Validation Workshop Report: Obstetric Referral in the Cambodian Health System – What Works?
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This is the report of a validation workshop held on 19th May 2015 at Navy Hotel in Prey Veng Province. The purpose was to validate the interim findings from the main fieldwork of ReBUILD’s Responsive Fund project Obstetric Referral in the Cambodian Health System – What Works?

Health care seeking behaviour and impact of health financing policy on household financial protection in post conflict Cambodia: A life history approach
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This report presents the findings and recommendations from part of ReBUILD’s qualitative health financing research in Cambodia, using the life histories approach.

Rebuilding adolescent girls' lives: mental health and psychosocial support in conflict-affected Gaza, Liberia and Sri Lanka
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2015
Description: This is a synthesis report from the ReBUILD affiliate study - Psychosocial support and service provision for adolescent girls in post-conflict settings

Performance-Based Financing in the context of the ‘complex remuneration’ of Health Workers - Findings from a mixed-methods study in rural Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2015
Description: Presentation by ReBUILD Affiliate researcher Maria Paola Bertone given at the International Health Economics Association Congress in Milan 15th July 2015

Research on health worker policies, incentives and retention in post-conflict countries: an overview of ReBUILD work
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2015
Description: Presentation given at the 22nd Canadian Conference on Global Health

Health financing in post conflict settings
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2015
Description: Presentation given by Barbara McPake at Nossal Institute of Global Health in July 2015

Obstetric Referral in the Cambodian Health System - What Works?
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2015
Description: Presentation by Gillian Le on ReBUILD Responsive Fund project on Obstetric Referral in the Cambodian Health System given at internal programme webinar, 9th Sept 2015.

Building Back Better - Gender and post-conflict health systems
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2015
Description: Combined presentations given at the launch of the Building Back Better website and resources on gender in post conflict health systems; 20th October 2015 in Liverpool

Haja Wurie speaks about Ebola in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2015
Description: In this new video, made as part of a COUNTDOWN project to bring together health systems researchers and implementers in Ebola-affected countries, Haja shares her insights on health system reconstruction in Sierra Leone.

Scripts to Support Group Model Building; A Guide for Participatory Systems Analysis
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2015
Description: This Guide for Participatory Systems Analysis documents twelve of the specific guides or ‘scripts’ that were found most valuable during the three case studies for ReBUILD’s affiliate research project on health systems resilience conducted by Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

How to identify and manage opportunities for ‘user-voice’ as part of research uptake strategies
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2015
Description: Presentation given at the ResUpMeetUp Training Exchange on February 12th 2015

Understanding health worker incentives in post-crisis settings: lessons from health worker in-depth interviews and life histories in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2015
Description: This is a report from the qualitative component of ReBUILD's health worker incentives research in Zimbabwe, drawing on the 'life histories' interviews with health workers

Working towards Universal Health Coverage in post-conflict environments
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2014
Description: Produced to coincide with Universal Health Coverage (UHC) day 2014, this briefing note outlines the importance of better understanding health systems in post-conflict settings, and how ReBUILD’s work in this area can contribute towards achieving UHC

Managing the Ebola epidemic in Uganda 2000-2001
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2014

Building a motivated health workforce – During and Post Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2014
Description: Drawing on ReBUILD’s research on health worker experiences and incentives in Sierra Leone, this briefing paper was produced to inform key actors involved in maintaining basic health services during the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak.

A window of opportunity for reform? The case of policy on human resources for health in Sierra Leone after the conflict (2002-2012)
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2014
Description: This ReBUILD briefing paper is based on a published paper from the Conflict and Health Series, Filling the void: Health systems in fragile and conflict affected states. The study described in the brief looks at the development of policies on human resources for health (HRH) in Sierra Leone over the decade after the conflict (2002–2012). The study identifies key drivers of HRH policy trajectory in Sierra Leone.

Benefits of Social Network Analysis for District Performance Assessment
Resource Type: Briefs
Year: 2014
Description: This brief gives an overview and an assessment of the Social Network Analysis tool for assessing district health sector performance in Uganda.as used in ReBUILD's

Living through conflict and post-conflict: experiences of health workers in northern Uganda and lessons for people-centred health systems
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2014
Description: This article presents the experiences of health workers who lived through decades of conflict in four districts of northern Uganda. It is based on in-depth interviews, using a life history approach, conducted as part of ReBUILD’s wider work on health workers’ experiences, motivation and incentives during and after conflict.

A window of opportunity for reform in post-conflict settings? The case of Human Resources for Health policies in Sierra Leone, 2002–2012
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2014
Description: This paper draws on ReBUILD’s research to look at the development of policies on human resources for health (HRH) in Sierra Leone over the decade after the conflict (2002–2012).

Health systems and gender in post-conflict contexts: building back better?
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2014
Description: This narrative literature review is an output of collaborative work between ReBUILD and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) working group on gender, to explore the opportunities and challenges for building gender responsive health systems in post conflict contexts.

Human resource management in post-conflict health systems: review of research and knowledge gaps
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2014
Description: Effective human resource management strategies and policies are critical to addressing systemic effects of conflict on the health workforce. This paper reviews published literatures across three functional areas of HRM in post-conflict settings: workforce supply, workforce distribution, and workforce performance.

Fragile and conflict affected states: report from the Consultation on Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Delivery
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2014
Description: Fragile and Conflict Affected States present difficult contexts to achieve health system outcomes and are neglected in health systems research. This report presents key debates from the Consultation of the Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Delivery, Liverpool, June, 2014.

Serving through and after conflict: life histories of health workers in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: Full report of ReBUILD’s qualitative ‘life-histories’ study documenting the evolution of incentives for health workers post-conflict and their effects on HRH and the health sector.

Policies to attract and retain health workers in Northern Uganda during and after conflict: findings of key informant interviews
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: Report of the ‘key informant interview’ component of ReBUILD’s wider study of the evolution of government and donor policies supporting health workers during and after the conflict in Northern Uganda

Staffing the public health sector in Sierra Leone, 2005‐11: findings from routine data analysis
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: Report of ReBUILD’s analysis of routine human resources data from Sierra Leone from 2005 to 2011, as part of the wider study on the evolution of health worker incentives.

A Case Study of Technical Assistance to HIV Services in Cote d’Ivoire in the Context of Civil Unrest Following the Disputed Presidential Election of 2010
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: Report from ReBUILD’s affiliate research project on health systems resilience conducted by Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University: An analysis of the disruption of HIV services in Cote d’Ivoire following the disputed presidential election of 2010.

A case study of health service provision in Yobe State, Nigeria in the context of the Boko Haram insurgency
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: Report from ReBUILD’s affiliate research project on health systems resilience conducted by Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University: A case study of health service provision in Yobe State, Nigeria in the context of the Boko Haram insurgency.

Health worker incentives during and after the conflict in Northern Uganda: A document review
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: This document review covers one component of ReBUILD’s wider research project into the evolution of government and donor policies supporting health workers during and after the conflict in Northern Uganda. The research project also involved in-depth interviews with health workers, key informant interviews and stakeholder mapping.

The Free Health Care Initiative: how has it affected health workers in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: The report pulls together findings relating to the Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI), as part of ReBUILD’s wider research on the evolution of incentives for health workers in post-conflict Sierra Leone.

Understanding health worker incentives in post-crisis settings – a document review of Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: As part of ReBUILD’s wider work to understand incentive environments for HRH post-crisis and their effects on health worker distribution, this document review analyses the development and effects of HRH policies formulated in Zimbabwe from 1997 to date.

Desk Review of institutional arrangements for health financing in selected African countries
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: As part of the ReBUILD project ‘Rebuilding the foundations for universal health coverage with equity in Zimbabwe’, this desk study describes features of the collection, pooling, purchasing, monitoring and governance in health financing in a number of African countries with primarily tax-based health financing.

Review of financing of semi-autonomous health institutions in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: As part of the ReBUILD project ‘Rebuilding the foundations for universal health coverage with equity in Zimbabwe’, this desk study presents evidence on the funds pooled in and paid by semi-autonomous institutions funding health, specifically the Health Transition Fund (HTF), the National AIDS Trust Fund (NATF), Health services Fund (HSF), the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), and the Workers Compensation Investment Fund (WCIF).

Literature Review on Needs Based Resource Allocation
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: As part of the ReBUILD project ‘Rebuilding the foundations for universal health coverage with equity in Zimbabwe’ this literature review informs the protocol for the field work to develop a resource allocation formula for distributing public health resources.

Assessing progress towards equity in health: Zimbabwe 2014
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: This 2014 Equity Watch report from Zimbabwe continues the work done in the 2008 and 2011 reports to review progress in delivering on policy commitments to promote health equity.

Desk Review of purchasing arrangements for publ ic health services in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: As part of the ReBUILD project ‘Rebuilding the foundations for universal health coverage with equity in Zimbabwe’, led by the Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC), this report provides a background desk review of literature on the purchasing arrangements between central government and (i) local government and (ii) private (not for profit) providers of primary care and district services using national reports.

Desk Review of institutional arrangements for health financing in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: As part of the ReBUILD project ‘Rebuilding the foundations for universal health coverage with equity in Zimbabwe’, led by the Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC), this desk study seeks to identify and describe the organizational, institutional and governance arrangements and procedures for pooling funds, for cross subsidies and for provider payments at different levels in the public health system in Zimbabwe.

The fallout of rape as a weapon of war
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: This short paper provides an overview of emerging research findings on the patterns and consequences of sexual violence in post-conflict settings, and highlights the complexities involved in tackling this problem.

Maternal Healthcare in the Cambodian Health System: A Literature Review
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Description: This literature review is one of the outputs from the ReBUILD Responsive Fund project Obstetric Referral in the Cambodia Health System - What works? The review aims to provide an overall understanding of obstetric referral in the Cambodian health care system and describe characteristics of Prey Veng province, the study province chosen for the project.

Health seeking behaviour and impact of health financing policy on household financial protection in post conflict Cambodia: A life history approach
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2014
Description: Poster of ReBUILD's qualitative research on health systems financing in Cambodia presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014

Health worker remuneration and incentive policies in post crisis Zimbabwe: challenges and Implications for retention of human resources for health
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2014
Description: ReBUILD Poster presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014: The study examines how incentive environments have evolved during and after the crisis in Zimbabwe

The Impact of Health Financing Policies on Household Spending: Evidence from Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey 2004 and 2009
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2014
Description: ReBUILD Poster presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014: Cambodian study measuring the combined effects of user fee and health equity fund on household health expenditure

Mobility of health staffs during conflict and post-conflict situations in a decentralized system, a case study of Northern Uganda
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2014
Description: ReBUILD Poster presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014: Study to understand how the policy of recruitment and deployment under decentralization was implemented and its impact on mobility of health workers over the conflict and post-conflict periods

Gendered Health Care Coping In Northern Uganda: What Are The Gender And Equity Considerations In Post Conflict Health System Strengthening?
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2014
Description: Poster presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014: A study of the extent to which gender is a factor in post conflict health systems

Organizational Infrastructure for Service Delivery: A Case Study of Post-conflict Northern Uganda
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2014
Description: ReBUILD poster presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014: Study of the multitude of non-state agencies involvement in the health system, in post-conflict Northern Uganda

Equity in Maternal Health Care Services in post-conflict Northern and non-conflict East-Central Uganda: A Comparative Mixed Methods Multi-case study
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2014
Description: ReBUILD poster presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014: Mixed method study comparing maternal health care in post-conflict and non-conflict regions of East Central Uganda

The challenges and opportunities of conducting ethical and trustworthy qualitative research in health systems in post-conflict and fragile contexts: Reflections from a learning community
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2014
Description: ReBUILD poster presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014: A qualitative study exploring how to strengthen policy and practice related to health financing and human resource management in post conflict and fragile contexts

Contracting health services in Cambodia: From external to internal contracting models and its implications
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2014
Description: ReBUILD poster presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014: Cambodian study of the shift from external to internal contracting models and their implementation

Increasing access to health services in remote and rural areas through improved retention of health workers: evidence from Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Posters
Year: 2014
Description: ReBUILD poster presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014: Study focused on the effectiveness of ‘incentive packages’ in attracting and retaining health workers in remote areas of Sierra Leone

Financial incentives for human resources for health: What do we know? What do we do? The case of Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2014
Description: Abstract of an oral presentation given by Maria Paola Bertone at the “Health Services Research: Evidence-Based Practice" conference in July 2014

Investigating health workers remuneration in Sierra Leone - preliminary results and reflections on methods
Resource Type: Presentations
Year: 2014
Description: Presentation given by Maria Paola Bertone at the 3rd Conference of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (11-13 March, 2014, Nairobi).

Benefits of Social Network Analysis for District Performance Assessment
Resource Type: Learning Resources
Year: 2014
Description: This brief gives an overview and an assessment of the Social Network Analysis tool for assessing district health sector performance in Uganda.as used in ReBUILD's

The human resource implications of improving financial risk protection for mothers and newborns in Zimbabwe
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2013
Description: Drawing on ReBUILD’s research into health financing and health worker incentives in Zimbabwe, this paper examines the implications for human resources for health of changes in user fees, with particular respect to reproductive, maternal and newborn health.

Health workers career paths livelihoods and coping strategies in conflict and post conflict Uganda
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2013
Description: Report of ReBUILD’s ‘life history’ study of serving health workers in four districts of the Acholi sub-region in northern Uganda, as part of ReBUILD’s wider work on health worker experiences and incentives during and after conflict.

The development of HRH policy in Sierra Leone, 2002-2012 – report on key informant interviews
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2013
Description: Report on ReBUILD’s key informant interviews with actors involved in HRH policymaking in Sierra Leone, which builds on the document review on the development of HRH policies.

The development of HRH policy in Sierra Leone, 2002-2012 – a document review
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2013
Description: Preliminary document review to describe the HRH context in Sierra Leone and the HRH policies that have been introduced during the post-conflict period.

Sierra Leone: August 2013
Resource Type: Newsletters
Year: 2013

Consortium Newsletter: January 2013
Resource Type: Newsletters
Year: 2013

Health financing in fragile and post-conflict states: What do we know and what are the gaps?
Resource Type: Peer Reviewed Articles
Year: 2012
Description: As part of ReBUILD’s wider work on health financing, this paper presents an exploratory literature review to analyse the themes and findings of recent writing on health financing in fragile and post-conflict settings.

Health worker incentives: stakeholder mapping report (Sierra Leone)
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2012
Description: This is a report of a stakeholder mapping exercise which took place in Freetown on 11th October 2012, in support of ReBUILD’s work to understand the key actors who have influenced policy and practices in human resources for health in Sierra Leone over the post-conflict period.

Understanding health worker incentives in post conflict settings: Project protocol summary
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2012
Description: This document is a summary of the protocol for ReBUILD’s research on understanding health worker incentives in post conflict settings. It details the approach used for this research across all four of the study countries.

Improving deployment systems for health workers in remote and rural areas: Project Protocol Summary
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2012
Description: This document is a summary of the protocol for ReBUILD’s research on deployment systems for health workers in remote and rural areas. It details the approach used for this research in the two study countries.

Health workers’ incentives in post-conflict settings – a review of the literature and framework for research
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2012
Description: This literature review was conducted to identify research gaps in relation to health worker incentives in post-conflict contexts, as a background review for the ReBUILD research project on this topic.

Human Resources for Health in Post Conflict Settings - A Literature Review
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2011
Description: A scoping review conducted in first year of the ReBUILD programme to identify current knowledge about human resources for health in post-conflict settings.

Health financing in post-conflict settings – a literature review
Resource Type: Research reports
Year: 2011
Description: ReBUILD Research Report: an analysis of thinking, approaches, themes and findings of recent literature on health financing in post-conflict or fragile health systems

The Health Worker Incentives: Uganda Briefing
Resource Type: Briefs

The policy brief on Benefits of Social Network Analysis for District Performance Assessment
Resource Type: Briefs

Managing the health workforce after a conflict: a review of research and knowledge gaps
Resource Type: Briefs

Update on work in Uganda, April 2013
Resource Type: Briefs

Short introduction to ReBUILD project November 2012
Resource Type: Briefs

Short introduction to our work in Sierra Leone, July 2011
Resource Type: Briefs

Short introduction to our work in Uganda, July 2011
Resource Type: Briefs

Short introduction to our work in Zimbabwe, August 2011
Resource Type: Briefs

Resource Type: Briefs
Description: Session at HSR2016. Hear about ReBUILD’s innovative body of mixed methods research Contribute to the discussion on promoting a resilient heath workforce in conflict affected areas

Contracting in conflict affected settings: evidence from Cambodia
Resource Type: Presentations

Health worker incentive environments during and postconflict
Resource Type: Presentations

Health systems in conflict affected states
Resource Type: Presentations

Gender and health ReBUILD themes
Resource Type: Presentations

Health systems in post conflict settings - are they different from other low and middle income countries?
Resource Type: Presentations

Health Systems in post conflict settings
Resource Type: Presentations

Capacity building in post conflict settings
Resource Type: Presentations

The Challenges and Opportunities of Building Pro-poor Gender Equitable Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-affected Contexts: Human Resources for Health
Resource Type: Presentations

Introducing the issues in the health systems stream from an IPASC perspective
Resource Type: Presentations

ReBUILD presents: How can we help?
Resource Type: Presentations

Building gender responsive health systems in post conflict contexts: Opportunities and challenges
Resource Type: Presentations

Use of qualitative research methods and health systems research in post conflict contexts
Resource Type: Learning Resources

Exchanging experience between Cambodia and Uganda using life histories
Resource Type: Learning Resources

Country Situation Analysis: Cambodia
Resource Type: Country Situation Analyses

Country Situation Analysis: Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Country Situation Analyses

Country Situation Analysis Uganda
Resource Type: Country Situation Analyses

ReBUILD Consortium newsletter December 2014
Resource Type: Newsletters
Description: An update on ReBUILD's activities; subscribe to future newsletters via the contacts page.