Educating for Health: Using Incentive-Based Salaries to Teach Oral Rehydration Therapy
Author: Sadia Chowddury Date: 8/1/2001 (PDF, 200KB)
In Bangladesh an education program aimed at teaching mothers how to prepare and use oral rehydration solution to treat diarrhea relied on output-based incentives to ensure that the teaching was effective. The program tied field workers' pay to fast-cycle feedback on performance against output indicators. Monitoring results show that the approach worked: the mothers learned effectively. Over 10 years the program reached 12 million households.