Partners

Partners

The project team consists of the prime contractor, Abt Associates, and seven partners. Team members have earned wide recognition for their expertise in the project's technical areas: Abt – healthcare financing; RTI - governance; Bearing Point - operations; and Training Resource Group - capacity building. Bitran y Associados, based in Chile, has depth in health financing in Latin America; Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine specializes in monitoring, evaluation, and research; Broad Branch Associates focuses on health care financing and global leadership; Aga Khan Foundation USA represents a network of agencies involved in community development and service deliver; BRAC University is part of one of the largest NGOs dedicated to poverty alleviation through training, service delivery, community mobilization, and micro health insurance; and Forum One, develops and supports web-based tools.

Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA), established in 1981, is a private, non-denominational, non-profit international development organization committed to alleviating poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy, primarily in Africa and Asia. The Foundation seeks sustainable solutions to long-term problems of poverty through an integrated, community-based, participatory approach that strengthens the capacity of local institutions and respects local culture. AKF USA is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network.

BearingPoint is one of the largest global management and technology consulting firms providing technical assistance to over 60 countries to solve their most pressing challenges. The Health and Social Protection group of BearingPoint improves access to affordable, quality health care by working with governments and institutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness of health service delivery and reduce financial barriers to healthcare, particularly for vulnerable populations. Areas of expertise include: organizational development; health care financing; health care operations; supply chain and change management; human resource management; and actuarial and economic modeling.

www.bitran.cl

Bitrán y Asociados (B&A) is an international consulting firm based in Santiago, Chile, specializing in health financing, economics, and reform. It may be the largest and oldest consulting group devoted to these issues in Latin America. Clients include the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the US Agency for International Development, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the governments of more than 30 developing nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. B&A specializes in health financing, prioritization of health spending, financial protection and health insurance, development of delivery strategies for primary health services using NGO and public providers and innovative contracting methods, measurement of provider performance, measurement of equity in health financing and delivery, health budget allocation strategies, contracting and provider payment methods, and teaching in health economics and health reform.

www.bracuniversity.net

The BRAC University James P. Grant School of Public Health (BSPH) was established in 2004 to train public health professionals from developing countries. The mission of BSPH is to improve health outcomes of populations in disadvantaged areas of the world, particularly the poor, women, and children, through the provision of public health education, research of international excellence and research training relevant to the particular needs of the developing world in partnership with institutions in Bangladesh as well as in the developed world. The Centre for Health Systems Studies was established in 2006 under the auspices of BSPH. The Centre aims to strengthen the health system in Bangladesh by informing, guiding, and systematically evaluating health related policies of the health sector, to improve health.

Broad Branch Associates is a woman-owned small business committed to implementing innovations that strengthen health systems by catalyzing behaviors that result in better health. Broad Branch Associates is a leader in the design, implementation, and evaluation of payment systems that link payment to both providers and consumers to results. Broad Branch Associates has worked in USAID priority areas that include reproductive health, maternal, neonatal and child health, and infectious diseases. It has worked in fragile states and with stable governments in all regions of the world and with both low and middle-income countries.

Forum One Communications partners with influential organizations, providing business strategy, online communications, user experience and technology expertise, to respond to some of the world's most pressing problems.

For more than three decades, RTI International has been committed to strengthening health systems by building institutional capacity; facilitating advocacy and coalition building; and promoting evidence-based decision-making. As a leader in health policy development and health financing, RTI seeks to improve the policy environment for health interventions by providing technical assistance and training to government, NGOs, and other stakeholders in health-policy assessment and analysis, strategic development, information-based decision making, advocacy capacity building, and health impact and projection modeling.

The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is dedicated to improving the health status of populations throughout the world. The teaching and research programs emphasize interdisciplinary, creative problem solving in the health and social sectors. The teaching program addresses the needs of young and mid-career professionals who intend to work outside the United States, with international organizations, or in multicultural contexts. The curriculum and applied learning opportunities draw upon Tulane's extensive overseas research, technical assistance work, and more than twenty years of experience in providing leadership training in international health to students from around the world.

Training Resources Group (TRG) is an employee-owned small business devoted exclusively to designing and implementing innovative approaches to improving the performance of people and organizations. TRG's major clients are USAID, the Department of State, the UN System and the World Bank. TRG has worked under USAID-funded health programs for over twenty years in the areas of organizational development, stakeholder participation, facilitating organizational partnerships, and training.

Affiliates

Several organizations are affiliated with Health Systems 20/20 as premier regional partners to lead or participate in their regions on assignments from USAID missions, regional bureaus, or the Global Bureau. Their participation ensures that population, health, and nutrition programs use high-quality local expertise to surmount finance, governance, and operational constraints. Affiliates include:

• Association Conseil Pour L’Action
• Cape Town University, South Africa www.uct.ac.za/home/
• La Concertation, Senegal www.concertation.org/gimi/concertation/ShowMainPage.do#

• Chulalongkorn University, Thailand http://search.it.chula.ac.th/curel/chula_eng/index_eng.htm
Eastern Europe
• Curatio International Foundation, Georgia http://www.curatiofoundation.org/curatio/
• Effective Solutions Consulting Group, Bulgaria

• Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Mexico http://www.insp.mx/

• Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts www.hsph.harvard.edu
• Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York New York http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/
• Health Financing Task Force, Washington DC
• World Resources Institute Washington, DC http://www.wri.org/
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland http://www.jhsph.edu/

Cost Share

Finally, the Abt team includes four private entities that have expressed willingness to donate complementary inputs to the consortium’s technical assistance:

• Direct Relief International (medical supplies and equipment) http://www.directrelief.org/Index.aspx
• Pfizer (Diflucan Partnership Program) http://www.pfizer.com/pfizer/subsites/philanthropy/caring/global.health.hiv.diflucan.jsp
• International Book Bank (books and educational materials) http://www.internationalbookbank.org/
• Health Volunteers Overseas (training and education of local health care providers)
  www.hvousa.org/index2.htm