The Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems Initiative
In January 2008, the Rockefeller Foundation, in partnership with the Results for Development Institute and the Thai Ministry of Public Health, launched a project on The Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems. The project’s aim was to advance thinking on the various challenges and opportunities of incorporating the private sector into health systems and to develop a broad systems perspective on how public and private sectors can work together to address the challenges of affordability, quality, and availability of care. This research—resulting in 2 synthesis reports by the Results for Development Institute and 14 technical papers by various institutions— draws on multiple data sources, including, a global survey of countries’ regulatory models, a scan of innovative private sector financing and delivery models, a survey of attitudes toward the private health sector, and evidence on where people receive health services. The Foundation sponsored this work as part of broader repositioning of its health strategy to address the emerging challenges of the 21st century. The final reports of The Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems Initiative can be found here.
Inaugural Grant Round for Phase 2 of Transparency and Accountability Program
The Transparency and Accountability Program has opened the inaugural grant round of its second phase of work. This round ("PETS Window") will support independent monitoring organizations to conduct public expenditure tracking or absenteeism studies in health and education. We expect to sponsor twenty organizations as part of the PETS Window. This Request for Proposals is open to civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and East Asia and the Pacific. All applications can be submitted online and are due on May 15, 2009. If you are interested in applying for the new grant round, please visit the Grants page of the TAP website (http://tap.resultsfordevelopment.org/grants/apply).
Financing Task Force of the Global Health Workforce Alliance
The Financing Task Force of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) is a 10-month effort to help developing countries and donor agencies tackle the financing dimensions of the human resources for health issue. The Results for Development Institute is organizing the financing task force for the GHWA and providing secretariat support. David de Ferranti, former World Bank Vice President for Latin America and CEO of Results for Development, and K.Y. Amaoko, former Executive Secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, provide leadership to the task force as its co-chairs. Dr. Marty Makinen leads the FTF secretariat.
Under the strategic direction of the financing task force, the secretariat is producing an issues paper that takes a systematic and comprehensive approach to identifying financing and economic aspects of the health workforce challenge. The secretariat is also producing an interactive, computer-based decision tool that would enable countries to estimate and project the costs of health workforce scale up and related improvements.
