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  Private sector participation in health

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2004

  This document, from HLSP, examines a range of approaches to strengthening public-private sector partnerships in order to scale up affordable and quality-assured health services. The document summarises and assesses the evidence base for the impact of private sector interventions on the health of the poor and on the wider health systems.
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  Effectiveness of private-sector extension in India and lessons for the new extension policy agenda

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2005

  Mahindra Subhlabh Services Limited (MSSL) has initiated one-stop farm solutions centres called Mahindra Krishi Vihar in selected districts of India. This paper explores the performance of one such centre set up by a private entrepreneur under a franchise agreement with MSSL and finds that participant farmers could increase their crop yields and income.
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  Learning from the private sector: lessons for public health policy from South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The market for primary health care in South Africa represents a growing opportunity for private providers targeting lower income employed workers, who often prefer not to use the public sector. A new model of service provision is emerging in the form of private companies providing fixed price primary care services in urban areas.
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  Public private partnerships in health: a global call to action

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004

  This paper, produced by Health Research Policy and Systems, outlines key challenges in public-private arrangements in health care and makes a Global Call to Action to address these challenges. The author establishes several ethical challenges in public-private partnerships.
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  Leveraging the private sector for public health objectives: a briefing paper for DFID on technology transfer in the pharmaceuticals sector

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This HSRC study maps a variety of Technology Transfer (TT) experiences and analyses the motivations behind the enabling agreements. TT is defined as the dissemination of knowledge and expertise from developed country organisations to developing country organisations.
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  Working with private sector providers for better health care: an introductory guide

  Options Consultancy Services, 2001

  This guide, produced by Options Consultancy Services, aims to provide a practical but critical approach to developing strategies for working with private sector providers (PSPs) for better health care in developing countries.
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  Public-private mix for DOTS implementation: what makes it work?

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This article from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization compares processes and outcomes of four public-private mix (PPM) projects implementing DOTS for tuberculosis (TB) control, in New Delhi and Pune, India, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, and Nairobi, Kenya.
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  Transforming roles but not reality? Private sector and community involvement in tourism and forestry development on the Wild Coast, South Africa

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper reviews the changing roles of private sector and local residents in tourism and forestry development, looking both at what is envisaged in policies and plans, and what is emerging, taking the Wild Coast, South Africa as a case study.Main findings include:policy attention is focusing on wilderness, tourism, and forestry assets as opportunities for investment led economic growt
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  Private sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable, safe drinking water? How do members of poor communities affected by the process judge PSP? 
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  Public-private partnerships for agroindustrial research: recommendations from an expert consultation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2003

  This briefing paper reports on a workshop looking at public-private partnerships in agroindustrial research. It presents case studies carried out in Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Paraguay, which highlight challenges to the integration of public-private partnerships, as well as supplementary experiences in Germany and Africa.

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