Performance-based financing versus improving salary payments to workers: insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo

Programme outcome: The IFRC 2010 support strategy and plan for the Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Red Cross of DRC) was based on the National Society’s (NS) 20092013 Strategic Development Plan and was designed to help the NS provide vulnerable communities with life-saving first aid, clean water and sanitation, health and hygiene promotion, HIV/AIDS support, sexual and gender bas...

What Happens When Donors Pull Out? Examining Differences in Motivation Between Health Workers Who Recently Had Performance-Based Financing (PBF) Withdrawn With Workers Who Never Received PBF in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Background A motivated workforce is necessary to ensure the delivery of high quality health services. In developing countries, performance-based financing (PBF) is often employed to increase motivation by providing financial incentives linked to performance. However, given PBF schemes are usually funded by donors, their long-term financing is not always assured, and the effects of withdra...

Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Occupational Stress among Textile Workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

CONTEXT In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), scientific studies on occupational health are scarce. The present study aims at estimating the level of occupational stress, as well as associated factors, in a textile company. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional survey among textile workers in DRC. Data (N = 192 subjects) were collected through a self-questionnaire validated for the asse...

Sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

logical trauma during war. Based on studies of Vietnam veterans and veterans with war-related traumas, an Institute of Medicine committee concluded that there is sufficient evidence of an association between deployment to a war zone and suicide in the early years after deployment. Study limitations include the potential for misclassification and underreporting of suicide, although this would be...