The Banking on Health project expands access to financing for private health providers, improving their capacity to deliver high-quality reproductive health and family planning services. Banking on Health works with financial institutions to increase lending to the health sector. In many…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Technical Area: Health Financing
Global trends including health reform, new public and private health insurance options, and increased health expenditures are expanding the role of the private health sector in many developing countries. These shifts add up to business opportunities for banks willing to make the investment to…
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The Banking on Health project expands access to financing for private health care businesses, improving their capacity to deliver high-quality reproductive health (RH) and family planning (FP) services. Private health care businesses in developing countries face many constraints to accessing…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
The Banking on Health project expands access to financing for private health providers, thereby improving their capacity to deliver high-quality reproductive health (RH) and family planning (FP) services. Many providers cite access to financing as a key impediment to growing their businesses and…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
Although contraceptive use in the Philippines has increased steadily over the past 35 years, results from the 2003 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) showed that family planning (FP) use had reached a plateau. One way to address this plateau and revitalize contraceptive use is to promote…
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Social and Behavior Change Communication
This report seeks to determine whether a Quality Improvement (QI) package designed to enable small-scale commercial reproductive health (RH) service providers to improve the quality of services provided through self-assessment, action-planning, and supervisors' support is effective in improving…
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Health Area: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Technical Area: Provider Quality
Over the past five years, the Abt Associates-led USAID Banking on Health project, which is implemented by Banyan Global has worked in 12 countries to expand access to financing for private health care businesses, improving their capacity to deliver high-quality reproductive health and family…
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THIS REPORT INVESTIGATES "MARKET-BASED SOLUTIONS" as a means to help those residing at the base of the global income pyramid. An alternative and complement to traditional government expenditures, aid, and philanthropy, market-based solutions give low-income people better access to socially…
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Technical Area: Market Development Approach (MDA), Market Information, Provider Quality
The Abt Associates-led PSP-One project cordially invites you to attend our End of Project Conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. from 9am-5pm. Over the past 5 years, PSP-One has worked to increase the private sector's provision of high-quality reproductive health and family…
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In January 2007, the government of Nicaragua initiated a demonstration project that extended the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute's (INSS') formal sector health insurance program to informal sector workers using MFIs as delivery channels. By offering the INSS' basic package of services and…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
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