Cate Urban 12/20/23 Cate Urban 12/20/23

Gender Integrated Response to Emerging COVID-19 Priorities in India

This work addressed the critical need for strengthening gender-based violence (GBV) response and prevention mechanisms at district, community, and facility levels.

Cate Urban 6/16/15 Cate Urban 6/16/15

Financing Preventative HIV Services

Presentation covers challenges and lessons learned

Cate Urban 2/27/15 Cate Urban 2/27/15

West Africa Private Health Sector: Six Macro-Level Assessments

This brief is a summary of the West Africa private health sector assessment conducted by the SHOPS project. The assessment looked at six countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, and Togo. Chloé Revuz prepared the brief, which presents the assessment methods, findings, and both regional and country-specific recommendations. The recommendations aim to strengthen family planning and HIV service delivery by leveraging the unique capabilities of the West Africa Health Organization as well as each country’s private health sector.

Cate Urban 11/24/14 Cate Urban 11/24/14

The Private Health Sector in West Africa: Six Macro-Level Assessments

Recognizing that the private health sector represents a key opportunity through which African countries can work to strengthen health indicators, the United States Agency for International Development West Africa Regional Health Office (USAID WA/RHO), asked the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project to carry out macro-level assessments of the private health sector in six focus countries.

Cate Urban 11/17/14 Cate Urban 11/17/14

Extending the Reach: Contracting Out HIV Services to the Private Health Sector in Gauteng, South Africa

This study focuses on the experience of Right to Care Health Services (RTCHS), a South African private company that manages HIV and AIDS services on behalf of several clients, including PEPFAR, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the South African government, employers, and medical aid schemes.

Cate Urban 10/31/14 Cate Urban 10/31/14

The Role of Alumni Associations in Strengthening Private Medical Training Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper explores the benefits to private medical training institutions in sub-Saharan Africa of creating alumni associations. It also provides practical learning from SHOPS’s work in assisting Hubert Kairuki Memorial University (HKMU) in Tanzania to establish an alumni association.

Cate Urban 9/10/13 Cate Urban 9/10/13

Network for Africa: A Virtual Community of African Public and Private Sector Leaders in Health

Vision for Network for Africa: Started in 2008 under the USAID funded PSP-One project - predecessor to the SHOPS project; Designed as a “virtual” Community of Practice targeting public and private leaders in health; Focuses on a wide range of topics on Public Private Partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa health sectors

Cate Urban 7/8/13 Cate Urban 7/8/13

The Private Sector: A Key Partner in the Health System

Cate Urban 7/15/05 Cate Urban 7/15/05

Grandmothers: A Learning Institution (available in English & French)

Since education is an integral aspect of children’s development, this paper examines existing evidence regarding the role of senior women, referred to in this paper as “grandmothers,” in children’s overall development, including education, in non-western societies (in Africa, Asia, Latin America,The Pacific, Aboriginal Australia, and Native North America).