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e-Conference: Health and Financial Services in the Middle East and North Africa: Time to go digital (recording)

This interactive e-conference brought together experts to examine the promising potential for digital applications to increase financial inclusion, improve health outcomes, and expand universal health coverage. The conference also featured findings from a comprehensive SHOPS Plus assessment of…

What makes alliances last?

When executed well, coordinated action by organizations pursuing a shared goal can effect change at an impressive scale and yield inspiring results. Collectives or alliances allow multiple stakeholders to join forces for a common goal, leveraging their diverse strengths and resources to play a…

Setting global research priorities for private sector child health service delivery: Results from a CHNRI exercise

The private health sector is an important source of sick child care, yet evidence gaps persist in best practices for integrated management of private sector child health services. Further, there is no prioritized research agenda to address these gaps. We used a Child Health and Nutrition…

Factors Influencing the Private Sector's Contributions to Family Planning Market Growth: A Synthesis of Six Country Analyses

A review of trends in modern contraceptive prevalence rates across low- and middle-income countries has led stakeholders to develop a normative S-shaped pattern for how family planning markets grow. In this model, low prevalence and little growth occur on one end, with high prevalence and low…

Video: Private Provider Voices

SHOPS Plus produced this video for the International Conference on Family Planning virtual forum held in February 2021. The video highlights the important contribution of private providers to family planning, shows the sector’s diversity, and underscores the fact that private providers serve all…

Webinar: Engaging the Private Sector in Health System Resilience Efforts (recording)

When nations face disease outbreaks, natural disasters, or other shocks to the health system, it is critical to address immediate needs while starting to prepare for the next emergency before it happens. In this webinar, we discussed how public and private stakeholders and systems can be better…

Sustaining the HIV Response in the Dominican Republic

In the Dominican Republic, SHOPS Plus has supported NGOs providing HIV services to integrate into the national HIV response. In this video, SHOPS Plus chief of party Nassim Diaz Casado and senior advisor Andrea Bare explain how the project strengthened the efficiency and sustainability of four…

Assessment of Gender and Supportive Supervision in Nigeria

As part of a family planning intervention in Nigeria, SHOPS Plus implemented a gender-integrated supportive supervision pilot based on a conceptual framework called gender-transformative supportive supervision (GTSS). The project conducted an assessment to understand how GTSS was implemented in…

Infographic: Health and financial services in the Middle East and North Africa: time to go digital

Tanzania: The Private Sector's Contributions to Family Planning Market Growth

The Tanzanian family planning market experienced significant growth from 1991 to 2016, with modern contraceptive prevalence rate among married women increasing from 6.6 to 32.0 percent. The private sector played a large role in this market growth. A SHOPS Plus analysis revealed several macro-…