OUR KEY MILESTONES

2012- 2015

2012- Established the first ever public-private forum in Kenya that brought Ministry of Health (MOH) officials, Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) leaders and private sector leaders together and facilitated discussions on pressing policy issues such as the implementation of the 2010 Constitution in health and National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) reforms.

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2014- Brought together the national and 47 county governments in Kenya, the first post-devolution forum to thrash out harmonization and coordination between the national government and devolved units in delivering healthcare.

2016-2020

2016- Facilitated public and private stakeholders in Tanzania to design and establish the Tanzania Public-Private Health Forum to promote public private engagement and partnerships and to build the Forum board’s capacity to manage an inclusive dialogue process leading to specific health partnership and collaboration initiatives.

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2019- Conducted a private health sector assessment of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s capacity to engage and partner with the private sector in Bangladesh to inform the government on how to strategically engage and partner with the private health sector to increase access and utilization of essential health services with a focus on Urban and rural poor.

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2020- Assisted the malaria program in Nigeria to assess and evaluate opportunities for private sector engagement and partnerships, including philanthropy, as a strategy to increase access to malaria diagnostic, treatment and products.

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2009- 2020- Conducted multiple private health sector assessment with various partners in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, and Uganda to identify opportunities for leveraging private health sector to contribute towards achieving UHC and more recently tackling COVID 19.

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2020- Contributed to drafting guidance for the World Health Organization and World Bank, for low- and middle-income countries on how to facilitate inclusive public-private dialogue initiatives.

2021-2025

2021- IHA and its partners supported the Kakamega County government in Kenya to strengthen its engagement, dialogue, and partnership with private healthcare providers to improve maternal and child health and strengthen local health systems. This support included mobilizing and organizing private providers in the county into a representative association for greater voice and more effective engagement within the county government which was also a platform for a multi-sectoral response to Covid-19 pandemic treatment.

2022-2023- IHA was a Network Implementing Partner under the Frontier Health Markets Project and focused on strengthening PSE/PPD and conducted selected Health Market Assessments, diagnosis, and Interventions in project focus countries in Africa Sierra Leone, Liberia and Tanzania.

2024 (Ongoing) - IHA is assisting Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health in strengthening private sector engagement systems and structures and identifying priority health PPP and collaboration areas for development.

2021-2024- We partnered with Makueni and Kajiado counties as an innovation ecosystem catalyst to test the Mountain Model Framework for driving public sector scaling of demand driven and priority health innovations.

2024- IHA has partnered with the Lake Region Economic Bloc to drive adoption and scaling of demand driven healthcare innovations through the Mountain Model Framework across 14 counties in Kenya.

2024-2025-   IHA and its partners will evaluate the Primary Care Network (PCN) implementation experience across 8 Kenyan counties to inform interventions to strengthen PCN's as a bedrock of UHC.