This volume provides step-by-step guidelines for developing appropriate and effective payment systems for health purchasers in low- and middle-income countries

The African Health Markets for Equity (AHME) project, jointly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented by a partnership of organizations led by Marie Stopes International (MSI), worked to address these challenges in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria for the past seven years (see box 1 for a description of the project). The purpose of this brief is to reflect on the project’s implementation to highlight the top lessons as it draws to a close.

This manual goes beyond traditional guidelines on cost analysis by providing practical options to overcome real-life challenges associated with costing in low- and middle-income countries, including the differing concerns of public and private providers.

This guide provides a structured process for countries to assess their current provider payment systems and identify refinements or reforms that can help them achieve their health system goals.

This handbook makes available practical guidance and advice to stakeholders who want to build and maintain public-private dialogue (PPD).

This document provides guidance for countries, agencies and other groups in the process of setting up new health or social care external evaluation organisations or programs.

The tools presented in this report help readers design strategies and approaches for engaging the private sector in a health system.

This toolkit seeks to address the gap in data utilization by providing guidance and tools to help countries implement provider payment monitoring systems that use claims and/or other routine administrative data.

This guidebook offers readers (government and public sector organizations) a guide for the development of a public-private partnership (PPP) in hospital management through six simple, customizable steps.

The Self-Regulatory Quality Improvement System (SQIS) is a simple, easy-to-use tool that users can quickly see the benefits it offers to their facility as well as to their clients.

This guide can be used by countries to assess country health regulatory systems, and to better understand challenges and opportunities related to regulating private PHC.

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.

This primer offers a practical introduction to contracting the private sector in support of national COVID-19 responses.

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).

This interim guidance intends to help governments with their efforts to engage the private sector in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as to maintain essential health services.

COVID-19 has reinforced the need for whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches to pandemic response.These efforts should facilitate market reliability (e.g., that services and products are available, of a specified quality and affordable) and build trust between the public and the public health authorities and service providers.

The objectives of this research framework are two-fold: to strengthen an empirical and comparative understanding of effective health systems governance during the pandemic response; and to identify pathways for change for effective governance of the private sector in health to achieve public health goals in the long-term.

This document serves as a simple guide and provides a toolkit for conducting a rapid health systems integration assessment for public-private engagement.

This guide provides detailed, how-to approaches for building effective and strategic communications campaigns to support policy advocacy and reform implementation.

This tool is intended to assess strengths and weaknesses related to the capacities, relationships, and interactions between public and private sector partners entering or implementing a public-private engagement.

This checklist tool provides a starting place for governments looking to engage the private sector in their COVID-19 vaccine deployment plans.

Software for a web platform for storing and browsing the location and capabilities of medical facilities. It can provide useful contextual information on private providers.

A diagnostic tool to assess the extent to which governance behaviours are implemented in your country.

A rapid diagnostic instrument (multi-stakeholder survey) for identifying practical policy opportunities in the health system to improve the relationship between health financing and primary health care (PHC) efforts.

A list of useful databases and houses for information on the private sector in health during COVID-19.