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The story of MSD: achieving sustainable development at scale

BEAM Exchange

The purpose of this publication is to communicate the results, versatility and implications of the MSD approach to a wide audience with a minimum of jargon. Practical experience in the ...

Managing Markets for Health

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments are striving to increase their capacity to contain and mitigate the disease while sustaining provision of other essential health services. This requires a ...

COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa’s vital informal urban food trade

Informal food markets are vital to feeding African cities, venues the poor rely on to buy and sell fresh food. Danielle Resnick argues that as governments impose COVID-19 restrictions, informal ...

The Annual Regional BDS Conference

On its 13th edition, The Annual Regional BDS Conference remains one of the largest learning platform to advance the practice of market system development and value chain facilitation within East ...

Harnessing the market systems approach to delay first birth among married adolescents

Lessons from market assessments in Niger and Bangladesh.

‘Innovations for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) – 2018’ Conclave

A large number of technological innovations have emerged, in recent years, aimed at addressing different health-related problems. This has raised the possibility of transformational changes that could enable health systems ...

Managing Markets for Health (MM4H)

A core course for health policy practitioners This course is delivered through instructor-led learning and self-study. It is targeted at health policy practitioners working in low- and middle-income countries. It ...

Creating decent work for women and youth migrating to cities

MEDA

This breakout session at the DCED / BEAM 2018 seminar explored how rapidly expanding urban sectors have great potential to provide decent work opportunities for disadvantaged women. It examined how ...

Innovation uptake in pro-poor health markets

Cardno Emerging Markets

Capturing what has worked, and not worked, during the implementation of the The Private Sector Innovation Programme for Health (PSP4H) in Kenya. The Private Sector Innovation Programme for Health (PSP4H) ...

Cumulative lessons learned in the PSP4H programme

Cardno Emerging Markets

Lessons learnt during the implementation of PSP4H's programme on exploring the markets in which poor people pay for-profit providers for healthcare. The Private Sector Innovation Programme for Health (PSP4H) is ...

Increasing the uptake of new technologies

BEAM Exchange, Oxfam, PSI, Tufts University, University of Sussex.

This brief explores how humanitarian and development programming impact the uptake of household water treatment products and long-term resilience to waterborne diseases, providing an answer grounded in economic theory and ...

Support to the National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP): Final report

Malaria Consortium

SuNMaP's purpose was to reach the general population, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, with evidence‐based interventions that would help control malaria and reduce the malaria burden.

BEAM webinar: Private capacity, public payment

Two decades ago, public private partnership for health was a novel idea in low and middle income countries. Now, most governments in these countries are working with private health actors ...

M4P in health: the case of mosquito nets in Nigeria

How can the private and public sectors work better together?

In sickness and in health: evolution, current practice and gaps in facilitated health service provision

Springfield Centre, PSP4H, Pharmnet, SuNMaP

This session, at the BEAM Conference 2016, brought together market development and health experts to discuss key issues that are critical for the provision of reliable, appropriate and affordable health ...

Who cares? Demand, supply, and options for expanding childcare availability in Kosovo

Kosovo Women’s Network

Women’s labour force participation rate in Kosovo is among the lowest in the world at 18.1 per cent. More than eight in ten working age women are inactive in the ...

Private capacity, public payment

Insight Health Advisors

Two decades ago, public private partnership for health was a novel idea in low and middle income countries. Now, most governments in these countries are working with private health actors ...

Private capacity, public payment

BEAM Exchange

While developing country governments have a range of mechanisms to engage the private sector to help reach men and women living in poverty, a market-based approach to health differs considerably ...

Private capacity, public payment

BEAM Exchange, Insight Health Advisors

This report presents findings from a BEAM research project called Private Business Participation in Government Initiatives to Improve Access to Critical Health Services implemented by Insight Health Advisors to study ...

Lessons for future health and M4P programming

Private Sector Innovation Programme for Health (PSP4H)

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 ...