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Myanmar Essential Health Project

ThinkWell is providing support on health financing and human resources for health to strengthen health system governance to improve the enabling environment for delivering the Essential Package of Health Services.

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Health Workforce for the 21st Century

The Health Workforce for the 21st Century (HW21) Program is supporting high HIV burden countries to meet UNAIDS’ 90-90-90 goals.

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Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, the USAID-funded Achieving Universal Health Coverage (AUHC) project is transforming the nationwide Smiling Sun network of 399 clinics into a consolidated pro-poor social enterprise: the Surjer Hashi Network (SHN).

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Sustainable Financing for Immunization

This project seeks to understand how different structural and political reforms affect financing for immunization and what different stakeholders, including public and private parties, can do to ensure that such financing is sufficient and sustainable.

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Building Country Capacity for Immunization Delivery Costing Evidence Use

ThinkWell is leading a three year project focused on increasing the visibility, availability, understanding, and use of evidence on the cost of delivering vaccines. The project is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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African Platform on Health Systems and Policy

ThinkWell facilitated the development of a network of African institutions with the core mission of improving the uptake of evidence in policymaking and practice. At the end of one year, ThinkWell successfully transitioned leadership to five core African partners.

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Analyzing Costs of Clustered Randomized Control Trials

ThinkWell is researching and analyzing the cost-drivers of clustered randomized control trials (CRCTs) in various settings.

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Annual Program Review of Bangladesh Health Sector

ThinkWell coordinated and oversaw the 2012 annual program review (APR) of Bangladesh’s heath sector. This 18-person, three-month intensive review assessed seven key aspects of the health sector, from public financial management to urban health.

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Assessing Aid Modalities to Support RMH in Mozambique

ThinkWell provided support to DFID Mozambique to develop the agency’s next five year health strategy to significantly impact Reproductive and Maternal Health (RMH).

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Assessing Health Inequity in Jordan

ThinkWell is supporting the High Health Council of Jordan with health systems research to assess health inequity in Jordan, especially as it relates to children and adolescents.

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Assessing the Private Sector in Indonesia

ThinkWell performed an assessment to re-envision maternal and newborn health in Indonesia and explore how the private sector and civil society can ignite change.

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Assessing Public-Private Partnerships in Kenya

With support from the ILO and FSD Kenya, ThinkWell assessed the readiness of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to engage in PPPs.

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Assessing the Supply Chain for Rapid Test Kits in Mozambique

ThinkWell conducted a comprehensive supply chain system assessment to identify the bottlenecks and leakages of HIV rapid test kits.

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Assessing the Voucher System in Madagascar

ThinkWell identified strengths and bottlenecks for the improved functioning of the current voucher system.

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Bottlenecks to Achieving Universal Health Coverage

ThinkWell conducted an analysis to identify bottlenecks to achieving universal health coverage in selected countries from the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region.

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Building Evidence in Mozambique to Support HIV Program Expansion

ThinkWell is working to increase and support country-led HIV programming and expand local capacity.

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Contracting Out for the MSPP in Haiti

With ThinkWell support, Haiti’s MinistÃ¨re de la SantÃ© Publique et de la Population (MSPP) strengthened its systems and capacity to receive and harmonize direct funding, and to contract out health care services.

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Designing Universal Health Coverage Strategies for Myanmar and Nepal

ThinkWell provided high-level strategic advice to the leadership of the ministries of health in Nepal and Myanmar on pathways to achieve Universal Health Coverage.

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Designing National Health Insurance in Liberia

ThinkWell worked with Liberia’s Ministry of Health and Social Work (MOHSW), Ministry of Finance (MoF) and Legislature to design Liberia’s first national health insurance program.

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Financing Health and Education Workforce Development in Lesotho

ThinkWell is supporting MCC’s negotiation of a new compact with Lesotho through research and analysis in the health and education sectors.

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Improving Health Financing and Governance in Jordan

Leveraging provider payment, strategic purchasing and health insurance to improve efficiency and equity in Jordan.

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Supporting Health Sector Resiliency in Afghanistan

ThinkWell provides technical support and capacity building to the Ministry of Public Health to strengthen quantitative skills and policy analysis in areas such as fiscal space analysis and strategic advocacy to increase domestic resources for health.

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Health Labor Market Analysis in Botswana, Malawi, and Namibia

HRH2030 helps low- and middle-income countries develop the health workforce needed to end preventable maternal and child deaths, support the goals of Family Planning 2020, control the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and protect communities from infectious diseases.

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Launching National Results-based Financing in Tanzania

ThinkWell supports the Tanzania Ministry of Health to design and implement their National Results-based Financing (RBF) program.

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Leveraging Saving Schemes to Expand Social Health Protection in Zambia

ThinkWell provides technical assistance to the Government of Zambia in its efforts to implement social health insurance. We also provides technical support to the Zambia Poor People’s Federation.

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Investing in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health in Mozambique

ThinkWell is supporting the Mozambican Ministry of Health on development of their national health financing strategy.

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Management of Joint Donor Technical Assistance in Bangladesh

ThinkWell provided technical expertise, analysis, and managerial and logistical support to a Joint Donor Technical Assistance Fund (JDTAF) in Bangladesh. JDTAF participants hailed from a wide range of bilateral and multilateral donor agencies.

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Participatory Governance in Africa

ThinkWell studied methods to foster participation in governance from citizens and stakeholders in Africa. We looked at the range of methods being used and factors that influence their effectiveness.

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Performance-based Financing in Mozambique

ThinkWell supports Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s $100 million HIV control project in Gaza and Nampula provinces.

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PhilHealth: Insuring the Informal Sector

ThinkWell supported the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to identify nontraditional, private-sector strategies to reach uninsured workers employed in the informal sector.

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Public Financial Management of Primary Education in Bangladesh

ThinkWell provided on-going fiduciary risk monitoring for sector budget support donors of the third Primary Education Development Programme (PEDP3) in Bangladesh.

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Quality of Care in Results Based Financing

ThinkWell undertook a global review of quality of care in 25 results-based financing (RBF) programs to create a database of quality of care checklists, an analysis of trends, and detailed case studies.

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Social, Behavioral, and Community Interventions for RMNCAH

ThinkWell engaged with the Partnership for MNCH and the WHO to identify challenges and opportunities to scale SBCE interventions and explore ways to accelerate investment in these interventions.

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Social Health Insurance Design Tools

ThinkWell engaged with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) to develop analytical tools used to design Bangladesh’s national health insurance pilot.

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Strengthening Capacity for Health Sector Governance Reforms in Laos

As part of an Asian Development Bank project on public sector governance, ThinkWell provides technical support to the Government of Laos in the production, use, and institutionalization of health account data to inform health sector reform.

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Strengthening Maternal and Child Health Systems in Pakistan

ThinkWell conducted an analysis to determine how innovative financing mechanisms could improve health systems performance in Sindh Province, Pakistan.

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Technical Assistance for Health Systems Strategy in Haiti

ThinkWell worked inside the USAID/Haiti mission as their lead technical expert in Health Systems Strengthening (HSS).

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Transitioning from External Aid and Ensuring Sustainability of UHC

ThinkWell supports the UHC2030 working group on sustainability, transition from aid and health systems strengthening. This project aims to collect country experiences on health system challenges and opportunities that transition presents.

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Building Country Capacity for Immunization Delivery Costing Evidence Use

Myanmar Essential Health Project

Myanmar Essential Health Project

Health Workforce for the 21st Century

Health Workforce for the 21st Century

Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh

Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh

Sustainable Financing for Immunization

Sustainable Financing for Immunization

Building Country Capacity for Immunization Delivery Costing Evidence Use

Building Country Capacity for Immunization Delivery Costing Evidence Use

African Platform on Health Systems and Policy

African Platform on Health Systems and Policy

Analyzing Costs of Clustered Randomized Control Trials

Analyzing Costs of Clustered Randomized Control Trials

Annual Program Review of Bangladesh Health Sector

Annual Program Review of Bangladesh Health Sector

Assessing Aid Modalities to Support RMH in Mozambique

Assessing Aid Modalities to Support RMH in Mozambique

Assessing Health Inequity in Jordan

Assessing Health Inequity in Jordan

Assessing the Private Sector in Indonesia

Assessing the Private Sector in Indonesia

Assessing Public-Private Partnerships in Kenya

Assessing Public-Private Partnerships in Kenya

Assessing the Supply Chain for Rapid Test Kits in Mozambique

Assessing the Supply Chain for Rapid Test Kits in Mozambique

Assessing the Voucher System in Madagascar

Assessing the Voucher System in Madagascar

Bottlenecks to Achieving Universal Health Coverage

Bottlenecks to Achieving Universal Health Coverage

Building Evidence in Mozambique to Support HIV Program Expansion

Building Evidence in Mozambique to Support HIV Program Expansion

Contracting Out for the MSPP in Haiti

Contracting Out for the MSPP in Haiti

Designing Universal Health Coverage Strategies for Myanmar and Nepal

Designing Universal Health Coverage Strategies for Myanmar and Nepal

Designing National Health Insurance in Liberia

Designing National Health Insurance in Liberia

Financing Health and Education Workforce Development in Lesotho

Financing Health and Education Workforce Development in Lesotho

Improving Health Financing and Governance in Jordan

Improving Health Financing and Governance in Jordan

Supporting Health Sector Resiliency in Afghanistan

Supporting Health Sector Resiliency in Afghanistan

Health Labor Market Analysis in Botswana, Malawi, and Namibia

Health Labor Market Analysis in Botswana, Malawi, and Namibia

Launching National Results-based Financing in Tanzania

Launching National Results-based Financing in Tanzania

Leveraging Saving Schemes to Expand Social Health Protection in Zambia

Leveraging Saving Schemes to Expand Social Health Protection in Zambia

Investing in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health in Mozambique

Investing in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health in Mozambique

Management of Joint Donor Technical Assistance in Bangladesh

Management of Joint Donor Technical Assistance in Bangladesh

Participatory Governance in Africa

Participatory Governance in Africa

Performance-based Financing in Mozambique

Performance-based Financing in Mozambique

PhilHealth: Insuring the Informal Sector

PhilHealth: Insuring the Informal Sector

Public Financial Management of Primary Education in Bangladesh

Public Financial Management of Primary Education in Bangladesh

Quality of Care in Results Based Financing

Quality of Care in Results Based Financing

Social, Behavioral, and Community Interventions for RMNCAH

Social, Behavioral, and Community Interventions for RMNCAH

Social Health Insurance Design Tools

Social Health Insurance Design Tools

Strengthening Capacity for Health Sector Governance Reforms in Laos

Strengthening Capacity for Health Sector Governance Reforms in Laos

Strengthening Maternal and Child Health Systems in Pakistan

Strengthening Maternal and Child Health Systems in Pakistan

Technical Assistance for Health Systems Strategy in Haiti

Technical Assistance for Health Systems Strategy in Haiti

Transitioning from External Aid and Ensuring Sustainability of UHC

Transitioning from External Aid and Ensuring Sustainability of UHC