Note: Some specific public programs, such as AAMA, innovated in payment mechanisms by having a policy of free delivery of services to patients and stimulating the demand side by costing patient items, such as transportation, as well as by reimbursing health units for all costs and paying extra incentives for health personnel.

The Safe Motherhood Program has a demand-side financing approach where the mothers are provided free delivery care at health facilities with provision of transport funds.

Ref: Government of Nepal, Ministry of Health and Population. 2019. SITUATION ANALYSIS OF HEALTH FINANCING IN NEPAL. MOHP, World Bank, WHO, GIZ, Kathmandu, Nepal.