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Family Planning Success Stories in Sub-Saharan Africa
Evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Ghana demonstrate that rapid uptake and sustained use of modern family planning methods can occur in even the most poor, resource-strapped, and largely rural countries.
Resource Type : Report
Country : Ghana, Malawi
Year : 2005-11-29T12:00:00
Language : English
Project : SHOPS
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Cost-effectiveness of USAID's Regional Support of Family Planning in West Africa
Between 1994 and 1996, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) closed 23 country missions worldwide, of which eight were in West and Central Africa. To preserve United States support for family planning and reproductive health in four countries in that region, USAID created a subregional program through a consortium of US-based groups that hired mainly African managers and African organizations. This study assesses cost-effectiveness of the program through an interrupted time-series design spanning the 1990s and compares cost-effectiveness in four similar countries in which mission-based programs continued. Key indicators include costs, contraceptive prevalence rates, and imputed "women-years of protection." The study found that, taking into account all external financing for population and family planning, the USAID West Africa regional approach generated women-years of protection at one-third the cost of the missionbased programs. This regional approach delivered family planning assistance in West Africa cost effectively, and the findings suggest that regional models may work well for many health and population services in small countries.
Resource Type : Report
Country : Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Togo
Year : 2000-10-21T00:00:00
Language : English
Project : SHOPS
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Summa and C&J Medicare
A loan to a preferred provider can improve the quality of care and expand services that are covered by employer contracts.
Resource Type : Brief
Country : Ghana
Year : 2005-07-18T16:00:00
Language : English
Project : SHOPS
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Summa and GSMF International, Investment Brief
A loan to launch a commercially viable condom can assist an NGO in creating new sources of funding, cross-subsidizing its operations.
Resource Type : Brief
Country : Ghana
Year : 2005-07-18T16:00:00
Language : English
Project : SHOPS
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New Directions in Reproductive Health, Contraceptive Security
Private sector contribution to contraceptive security Clean delivery kit launch, Uganda Fortified foods, Morocco Goli Ke Hamjoli campaign featured in Cosmopolitain magazine New line of condoms in Ghana Green Star — social franchising in Pakistan Summa Foundation conducts a workshop with the IFC
Resource Type : Brief
Country : Ghana, Morocco, Pakistan, Uganda
Year : 2002-02-18T15:15:00
Language : English
Project : SHOPS
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Corporate Social Responsibility: The Private Sector's Unique Role in Improving Community Health
In today's global economy, corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities are an important part of corporate business, with more and more companies recognizing that giving back to their employees and to the communities where they operate is a critical strategy for long-term success.
Resource Type : Brochure/Postcard
Country : Brazil, Ghana
Year : 2005-07-18T13:45:00
Language : English
Project : SHOPS
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The Commercial Market Strategies Project: Partnering with the Commercial Sector in Family Planning and Reproductive Health
Commercial Market Strategies (CMS) is the U.S. Agency for International Development's flagship project to increase the use of quality family planning and other health products and services through private-sector partners and commercial strategies.
Resource Type : Brochure/Postcard
Country : Dominican Republic, Ghana, Nepal, Nicaragua, Uganda
Year : 2005-07-18T13:30:00
Language : English
Project : SHOPS
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AIDS Treatment: Saving Lives, Saving Money
CMS's AIDS treatment brochure articulates the business case for providing ARVs to employees as part of their health care benefits. The brochure, which was developed for CMS/Ghana, targets human resource directors and upper management.
Resource Type : Tool
Country : Ghana
Year : 2005-07-18T12:45:00
Language : English
Project : SHOPS
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MHOs and Reproductive Health: Using Mutual Health Organizations to Promote Reproductive Health
In developing countries, a large proportion of maternal deaths linked to pregnancy and childbirth could be prevented by improved access to and use of reproductive health (RH) services. These services include family planning (FP) to reduce unplanned pregnancy, post-abortion care, prenatal interventions, training of birth attendants, and emergency obstetric care. Despite the fact that the advantages of RH programs are well known, expanding the use of RH and FP services remains a challenge.
Resource Type : Other
Country : Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal
Year : 2004-10-18T11:45:00
Language : English
Project : SHOPS
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Willingness to Pay: A Practitioner's Perspective (an audio Power Point Presentation)
This is a large power point file with audio. When downloading please be patient. Mr. Alex Banful is the Managing Director of the Ghana Social Marketing Foundation (GSMF) and has over 20 years of experience working in different private sector activities in Ghana such as health communications, and contraceptive social marketing. Mr. Banful presented this case study at the Willingness to Pay Panel. The case study demonstrates how the results from a Willingness to Pay survey were used by GSMF to guide its social marketing program.
Resource Type : Presentation
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Year : 2005-05-20T17:15:00
Language : English
Project : SHOPS