PSPOne Mainstreaming Strategy

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PSP-One Mainstreaming Strategy

• Building on the Results of the Stakeholder
  Analysis

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Background

• Stakeholder Analysis
• Conducted an informal stakeholder analysis of c.
  20 USAID staff
• Queried about
• perceptions about the benefits and risks
  associated with the commercial sector in health
• successful and not so successful approaches, and
  principal contributions
• concerns regarding private sectors role in
  health and
• Information needs

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Survey Results

• Identified target groups
• Champions
• Realists
• Skeptics

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Objectives of Mainstreaming Strategy

• To increase support for private sector
  involvement in health through
• Increased knowledge of private sector
  contributions to public health goals
• Broadened understanding of private sector
  programming options
• Facilitate public private sector discussion

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Mainstreaming Messages

• Need for common messages
• Four presented today
• Message 1
• Health needs in developing countries are so
  great that public resources alone are
  insufficient to meet them.

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Mainstreaming Messages, cont.

• Message 2
• The private sector is providing needed health
  products and services to a wide range of
  consumers in developing countries, including the
  poor, contributing to improved health outcomes.

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Mainstreaming Messages, cont.

• Message 3
• Quality in private sector is mixed. Donors and
  the public sector have an important role to play
  in improving quality.

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Mainstreaming Messages, cont.

• Message 4
• USAID and other donors have demonstrated
  expertise in how to program successful
  interventions to increase private sector
  involvement in healthcare.

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Next Steps

• PSP-One Expert Panel
• Policy Papers and Primers
• Policy Primers
• Interviews with Project Directors and COPs
  leading private sector initiatives
• Regional Conferences with other donors (e.g. KfW)
  and international organizations (WHO)

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PSWG reactions??

• Other ideas
• Inventory resources for working with private
  sector in health
• Inventory private sector programs and activities