Resources by USAID

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PSP Jordan USAID Brief - VAW
2007
USAID brief on the Private Sector for Women's Health Project and its recent activities in Jordan. 288 USAID
Recommended Reading Public Sector Family Planning: How Can We Pay For It?
2006
The public sector is the most important provider of family planning services in almost all developing countries, a status that confronts governments with large and growing costs. 334 USAID
Recommended Reading Indo-U.S. Corporate Fund for HIV/AIDS Brochure
2006
The United States and India have agreed to establish an innovative HIV/AIDS corporate initiative - the Indo-U.S Corporate Fund for HIV/AIDS. This fund aims to catalyze private sector engagement and mobilize resources to expand and strengthen India's response to HIV/AIDS. 619 USAID
Finding Private-Sector Support for Primary Health Care in Bangladesh
2006
NGOs which provide basic health care to the poor must become less dependent on donor support by diversifying their funding. The NGO Service Delivery Program (NSDP), a USAID-funded health care program in Bangladesh, is working with NGOs to find corporate sponsorship. 321 USAID
Skilled Birth Attendants Accepted at Home in Bangladesh
2005
Ninety percent of deliveries take place at home in Bangladesh, but among the poorest 20% of Bangladeshis only 4% of births are attended by skilled health personnel. 302 USAID
Toolkit to Improve Private Provider Contributions to Child Health
2005

This toolkit is intended to fill a need that surfaced in Uganda and elsewhere, for some basic guidance and reference materials to assist managers in developing public-private partnerships and interventions to improve the reach and quality of child health services by involving the private sector.

Many developing countries are realizing the importance of including formal and informal private providers in child survival and malaria control interventions.

385 USAID
Helping District Teams Measure and Act on Client Satisfaction Data in Niger
2005
This paper represents a summary of the QAP Operations Research Project entitled “The client perspective: Helping district teams measure and act on client satisfaction data in Niger.” This study was implemented in two stages, the first taking place in October and November 1997, the second in April 1998. 347 USAID
Client-Focused Care: An Evaluation of Tools for Gathering Client Satisfaction Data
2005
Exit interviews and focus groups are two of the most widely used tools in health services research for measuring client satisfaction with health services. 297 USAID
PSP-One Quality Assurance Panel Highlights
2005
On March 3, 2005, PSP-One hosted a Quality Assurance Panel Discussion entitled, "Strengthening Reproductive Health Service Quality in the Private Sector: Approaches, Tools, and Incentives." Panelists were drawn from the cooperating agency community, as well as the domestic private sector working in quality assurance. 502 USAID
PSP-One Quality Assurance Panel Discussion Overview
2005
In this presentation, USAID's James Heiby gives an overview of quality assurance issues in the private sector. His presentation was given at the PSP-One Quality Assurance Panel Discussion on March 3, 2005. 503 USAID
Cost-effectiveness of USAID's Regional Support of Family Planning in West Africa
2000
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. 310 USAID