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The UNFPA Private-Sector Initiative: Exploring Ways to Facilitate Cooperation between Governments and the Commercial Sector to Expand Access to Reproductive Health Commodities

This report outlines the experience of various agencies, including UNFPA, in expanding cooperation with the private sector for the provision of reproductive health services and commodities. While reviewing the conclusions of international consultations in 1997 and 1998 on the progress of the UNFPA private-sector initiative, it highlights various practical recommendations for Governments and donors as well as UNFPA. Brief case study reports of some of the important work, principally with family planning programmes carried out by other agencies, in Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey appear in Annex A.