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Toolkit to Improve Private Provider Contributions to Child Health

This toolkit is intended to fill a need that surfaced in Uganda and elsewhere, for some basic guidance and reference materials to assist managers in developing public-private partnerships and interventions to improve the reach and quality of child health services by involving the private sector. Many developing countries are realizing the importance of including formal and informal private providers in child survival and malaria control interventions. Some of them, e.g. Bangladesh, are now developing national strategies, based on situation analyses. In addition, different types of interventions, some of them quite innovative, are being undertaken in several countries in areas such as child survival, malaria, and TB. Tools for situation analysis, advocacy, strategy development, planning, implementation, and monitoring / evaluation have been used in these processes, and could benefit other countries who decide to address this gap. The purpose of the toolkit is to share these field experiences and tools, to accelerate national and subnational efforts to involve private providers in national child survival and malaria programs and to work at scale, based on lessons from promising interventions.