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Project

Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage

Funder

USAID

Partner

Chemonics, Results for Development (R4D), and Zenysis

Overview
2021–Present

FHM Engage improves the functioning of local health markets in USAID priority countries and supports the strategic engagement of the private sector to advance health outcomes in areas including family planning, maternal newborn and child health, malaria, HIV and AIDS, and tuberculosis. The project enhances the quality of, and access to, health services and products for women and children by identifying the root causes of underperforming markets and co-designing solutions with local partners for sustainable change.

Project Activities


  • Support local actors to diagnose market challenges, design and co-create solutions, deliver and execute implementation plans, and adapt solutions using science to adjust approaches.
  • Improve the quality of family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) services.
  • Leverage opportunities for economies of scale within private sector networks to enhance access to FP.
  • Promote youth-driven demand strategies to strengthen priority youth markets for FP/RH information, products, and services.

Webinar: Strengthening SRH outcomes through private sector engagement: integrating lessons and evolving approaches.

MSI Reproductive Choices and FHM Engage co-technical lead, Pathfinder International shared emerging models and frameworks for private provider engagement. The discussion drew on the successes and lessons of social franchising, sharing new ways to strengthen the critical role that private providers play in ensuring a mixed health system is optimized and able to expand sustainable access to sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) services. Pathfinder’s Xaher Gul joined the panel (23:45).

Countries Involved
Focus Areas
  • Adolescents & Youth
  • Contraception & Family Planning
  • HIV & AIDS
  • Maternal, Newborn & Child Health 
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