Tool Repository

Tool Repository

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The Tool Repository provides a compilation of available tools, practical guidance, and trainings for governments on how to effectively engage with the private sector in health. The resources included in the repository can help governments strengthen the development and implementation of appropriate policies, processes and measures to build a more equitable and resilient health system through the effective engagement of the private sector in health.

 

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Vaccines
Engagement of Private/Nongovernmental Health Providers in Immunization Service Delivery
Global
This WHO Guidance Note on Engagement of private/non-governmental health providers in immunization service delivery highlights areas for potential collaboration and action to enhance equity, quality and scope of vaccination coverage through engagement of the private health sector.
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Report
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Contracting
Regulation
Private Participation in Health Services
Global
Tanzania, United Republic of
Zambia
This book draws on a wide range of country experience to provide a judicious blend of practical advice and useful information on health services privatization issues.
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Report
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Data
Financing/health financing
Governance
Service delivery
Vaccines
Health System Assessment (HSA) Approach (v3.): A How-to Manual
Global
A rapid assessment tool covering key health systems functions: service delivery, human resources for health, medical products, vaccines and technologies, health information system, health financing, and governance.
Analytical Tool
Online
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COVID-19
Data
Legal
Regulation
Enabling the Private Health Sector in the National Response to COVID-19: Six Current Policy Challenges
Global
This document identifies and frames the policy challenges that low and middle-income countries are facing in enabling the domestic private health sector to support the national response to COVID-19.
Guide
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COVID-19
Vaccines
COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction Toolkit
Global
This toolkit guides countries on the introduction and roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines and supports government engagement with multiple stakeholders including the private sector.
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Dialogue
The Public-Private Dialogue Handbook: A Toolkit for Business Environment Reformers
Global
This handbook makes available practical guidance and advice to stakeholders who want to build and maintain public-private dialogue (PPD).
Guide
Report
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Market Segmentation
MNCH
Quality
The Value of Segmentation: Market Research Among Private Maternity Providers in India
Global
India
Segmentation is a research-based tool thar organizes diverse audiences into unique groups in order to better target the interventions for quality management.
Analytical Tool
Case study
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COVID-19
Purchasing
How to Purchase Health Services During a Pandemic?
Global
This document offers high-level principles for adjusting budgeting, benefits, and payment in support of a high-quality COVID-19 response.
Guide
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COVID-19
Vaccines
Engaging the Private Sector for the National COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Global
This knowledge brief provides practical guidance to address some of these challenges and to reduce the risks of collaboration with an unfamiliar partner.
Analytical Tool
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Dialogue
State of Play— Public-Private Dialogue
Global
This is a how-to guide that captures the evolution of public-private dialogue (PPD) and the challenges faced by practitioners since the first PPD handbook was published in 2006.
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Financing/health financing
MNCH
PHC
UHC
Linking Private Primary Health Care Networks to Sustainable Domestic Financing: A Practical Guide for Network Managers
Global
A practical guide for organizations working with private health care providers to connect to sustainable domestic financing opportunities.
Analytical Tool
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COVID-19
UHC
Engaging the Private Health Service Delivery Sector Through Governance in Mixed Health Systems
Global
This strategy serves as a guide for governments at various levels of engagement to promote a new way of doing business with the private sector.
Guide
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Contracting
Franchising
Innovation
PHC
Role of private sector engagement in reimagined primary healthcare delivery
This report provides a comprehensive review of the private sector service delivery landscape from existing evidence, and focuses on private sector engagement models in primary health care delivery settings.
Guide
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Policy
Private Health Policy Toolkit for Africa
Global
The tools presented in this report help readers design strategies and approaches for engaging the private sector in a health system.
Guide
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Data
MNCH
Provider mapping
Private Sector Counts
Global
Private Sector Counts uses Demographic and Health Survey data to illuminate the important contribution of the public and private sectors to sick child care and family planning service delivery.
Analytical Tool
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COVID-19
Service delivery
Microlearning Resource: Changing How Services Are Delivered So Fewer Patients Come to Health Facilities in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic
Global
This learning resource includes guidance and best practices on the use of the private sector to deliver services.
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Market shaping
Family Planning Market Analyzer
Global
The Family Planning Market Analyzer combines data from Demographic and Health Surveys and FP2020's projections of modern contraceptive prevalence (mCPR) to allow users to explore potential scenarios for a total market approach (TMA).
Analytical Tool
Online
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Public-Private Partnership
Guidebook on Public-Private Partnership in Hospital Management
Global
Philippines
This guidebook offers readers (government an public sector organizations) a guide for the development of a public-private partnership (PPP) in hospital management through six simple, customizable steps.
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Contracting
Financing/health financing
Purchasing
Public Ends, Private Means: Strategic Purchasing of Health Services
Global
This guide provides a synthesis of the institutional environment needed for countries to shift to strategic purchasing, organizational incentives that need to be in place, and management capacity that needs to be strengthened.
Report
Specialized tool
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COVID-19
Microlearning Resource: Private Sector Engagement during COVID-19
Ethiopia
Global
Myanmar
This online seminar highlights opportunities and challenges for strategic public-private engagement in health (including those revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic).
Learning Tool
Online
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Please contact us if you have any feedback or would like to suggest a resource to include in the repository.

Please note: This is an ongoing process of collecting relevant tools and may not cover all tools and practical guidance available. Solely static assessments or general analysis of public-private engagement, and accounts of country experiences such as case studies have been excluded.

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