Lessons for future health and M4P programming

This paper focuses on what future M4P-in-health programming can achieve, learning from and building on the work of the Private Sector Innovation Programme for Health (PSP4H). The report explores:

• How an M4P approach can improve poor women and men’s health in Kenya. It also explains how M4P programming is different to other development partnerships with private healthcare providers.
• Progress to date in action research pilots started by PSP4H, and how future M4P programming could build on each of them.
• New intervention areas which future M4P programming might address further, drawing on PSP4H action research, wider research on Kenya’s health sector, and global M4P experience.
• Lessons from PSP4H which can be applied across interventions in a future M4P programme. 

PSP4H, implemented by Cardno Emerging Markets and consortium partners, utilises a market systems approach known as Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P). The main objective of the programme is to share evidence and lessons learnt with both Kenyan and international health stakeholders on the benefits of this approach for pro-poor health programme design.