Evidence from low-income Asian countries shows that performance-based financing (as a specific form of contracting) can improve health service delivery more successfully than traditional input financing mechanisms. We report a field experience from Rwanda demonstrating that performance-based financing is a feasible strategy in sub-Saharan Africa too. Performance-based financing requires at leas...

Winkler This paper stems from an endeavor to understand how social capital can be established between conflicted groups, with a goal of exchanging division for a cooperative drive toward national development. The ethnically divided societies of Rwanda and Guatemala are used as cases to examine the role education systems perform on social capital. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis, I...

BACKGROUND Stroke is a major cause of long-term disability. Information regarding the limitations in activity and participation experienced by patients with stroke in a specific setting such as Musanze district in Rwanda would assist to develop the rehabilitation programmes that would take into consideration the functional challenges experienced post stroke. OBJECTIVE To explore the activity ...

The challenge for agricultural policymakers and planners, particularly in the context of Rwanda with high population density and consequently food insecurity, is how to enable farmers to adopt new technology. It is known that adoption of new technology may vary among farm households because of socio-economic characteristics. This paper intends to typify farm households in Rwanda based on the ex...

In this paper, we tested the catching-up hypothesis toward the USA using Becker et al. (2006) flexible Fourier KPSS stationary test over the period 1960-2009. The mentioned test could control for unknown number and form of structural breaks using a selected frequency component of a Fourier function. Our results show almost poor countries stay poor and almost rich countries stay rich. South Kore...

Rwanda: Primary energy supply is dominated by biomass resources in Rwanda. Wood supplies about 57 percent directly and wood for charcoal 23 percent, while agricultural residues and peat provide 6 percent and petroleum products 11 percent. Only 5 percent of the country’s population are connected to the electricity grid, with 3 percent of these being in the rural areas and 25 percent in the urban...

An assessment of factors that explain more about women empowerment and measure the development gap between them in three East African countries namely Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda is presented using IPUMS 2002/2003 database. The data on responses from these surveys provided a set of representative population based estimates of social indicators by 2002/2003. The value of Kaiser Meyer –Olkin (KMO...

In many developing countries, electronic medical record (EMR) systems are being implemented in resource-poor settings. Essential to such implementations are software developers with a high technical capacity, a good understanding of medical informatics and an awareness of local clinical needs. This paper describes a training program which has been run in Rwanda to enable local computer science ...

The survival rate among People living with HIV has globally increased due to access Antiretroviral therapies (ARTs). However, ARTs in turn resulted emerging NCDs, including elevated blood pressure, where the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is Epicenter. overall prevalence of Hypertension Rwanda 15.9% expected increase 17.78 2025. This study aimed at assessing and associated factors pressure adult peop...

A community based sociotherapy programme was implemented in the North of Rwanda in 2005.This article describes the background of sociotherapy, explains its principles and application in therapy for refugees in the Netherlands, and gives a justi¢cation for the introduction of the approach in a particular setting in post war and post genocide Rwanda. It then focuses on the development of the prog...