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Best Practices in Training Private Providers
Training of health care providers is one of the most common interventions used in development strategies to improve the quality of reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) services in developing countries. Decades of experience have produced an abundance of information, guidelines, and best practices on how to effectively train health providers, but most of this relates to public sector providers. In recent years, however, private sector providers have been recognized increasingly as an important source for delivery of RH/FP and other health services in developing countries, even for the poor. Yet the inclusion of private providers in training interventions or even the acknowledgment of their unique needs in discussion forums on training are still not common practices.
The purpose of this primer is to document and promote best practices gleaned from worldwide experience in training private sector providers. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Abt Associates-led Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) project has reviewed literature and developed case studies of recent private provider training events to collect and analyze lessons learned. The findings will aid donors, program managers, curriculum designers, and trainers to successfully design and implement training of private providers. Again, because numerous resources exist on general aspects of training, this primer does not address those topics but rather focuses on aspects that are unique to training private providers.
