POPULATION, HEALTH and NUTRITION
Private Providers
Expanded provision of quality services by private and commercial providers
USAID's project on private sector involvement in family planning aims to expand the provision of private family planning services and products. Strategies include partnerships with medical providers and pharmaceutical companies, tapping corporate social responsibility and health concerns, conducting policy analyses, and offering assistance to NGOs with business and planning skills.
Project End: The project has been extended to May 2004.
COMMERCIAL MARKET STRATEGIES (CMS)
Objective
CMS-Philippines' Program aims to improve primary health care and expand the choices of family planning services by harnessing the dynamism and capital of the private sector through the use of commercial strategies. This activity of enhancing private markets will have the additional benefit of allowing Philippine health and family planning authorities to properly concentrate their scarce financial and human resources on the very poor.
Background
USAID has been supplying the Philippines with contraceptives for over 30 years and contributes about 80% of the total contraceptive requirements of the country. USAID has announced it will phase down contraceptive support to the Philippines starting 2003.
The CMS project is intended to expand the provision of private family planning services and products. Strategies include partnerships with medical providers and pharmaceutical companies, tapping corporate social responsibility and health concerns, conducting policy analyses, and offering assistance to NGOs with business and planning skills.