Healthy Markets CoP

About the Healthy Markets Community of Practice

The Healthy Markets Community of Practice (HMCoP) is an evolution from the Total Market Approach Technical Working Group (TMA TWG) which has been operational since 2014. The HMCoP convenes partners for knowledge exchange on best practices, experiences, and resources to catalyze private sector approaches and enhance market development, with a focus on family planning (FP) and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programming. The goal of the group is to develop healthy markets that are responsive, equitable, resilient, led by local actors and driven by consumer needs.

FHM Engage is the Secretariat for the HMCoP. The current co-chairs are USAID (represented by Andrea Bare) and UNFPA (represented by Ben Light).

We encourage participation by in-country partners and actors including the local private sector. Ultimately, the goal of each session is to generate awareness of family planning market development and private sector engagement work happening in countries and for participants to leave with a greater understanding and appreciation of participating country’s health market. Read our story "Dialoguing to Make a Difference."

About HMCoP Meetings

HMCoP sessions support interactive and dynamic knowledge exchange, documentation, and implementation research efforts around market development and private sector engagement. Sessions focus on a single country or theme and are dynamic with multiple speakers and topics highlighting data/intelligence, tools, and interventions that help improve the understanding and functioning of the country’s FP/SRH market. Topics of discussion may delve further into users, demand/supply of information, services products as core market functions, and also consider supporting functions such as financing, market intel, rules/regs/norms, and stewardship. We will encourage discussion around questions such as:

• How might the core functions of demand and/or supply be strengthened with greater local private sector engagement?

• How can we improve supporting functions to facilitate FP market development?

Upcoming Sessions:

Making FP Markets Work - By and For Youth, January 30, 2025, 9-10:30 a.m. EDT. Subscribe to the HMCoP listserv and click here to register for this session.

Read More And View Recent Sessions:

Pharmacies and Drug Shops - December 5, 2024

Malawi - October 24, 2024

Sierra Leone - September 25, 2024

To join the HMCoP as a presenter or participant, please write to us: FHM-HMCoP@FHM-Engage.org