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Meet the Teams: Public Private Partnerships (PPP)

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This innovative solution consists of three key pillars:

  • A unique public-private partnership (PPP) between the government, the community and a new cadre of private, community-based, skilled, female, health providers. With funding from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), this new cadre of providers are selected from the community, trained using WHO/Ministry of Health (MoH) accredited curriculum, and are supervised and monitored by the government in collaboration with the community.
  • Community ownership through the establishment of a Community Support System (CmSS), a local government-led community mobilization model that empowers the community to play a key role in addressing demand and supply side barriers through health promotion, referral support and accountability. CmSS actively contributes to identifying appropriate female candidates for health provider training, negotiates and sets fees for service with private providers (which are in line with community needs), builds awareness and promotes the services of the new cadre of private providers, supports timely referral, and monitors coverage, quality and equity of service provision to ensure transparency, accountability and voice of the community.
  • Social entrepreneurship and business training from JITA (CARE’s social entrepreneurship initiative) for the new cadre of providers. This training helps them develop business plans and become financially sustainable and independent by selling their health services. They also receive government reimbursement for serving poor and marginalized women through national and local social safety schemes.

Learn more about PPP by watching this video documentary!

Meet the Team

Jahangir Hossain | Program Director-Health | CARE Bangladesh 

Jahangir Hoassian is a Health and Development Program development professional with over 23 years of experience in development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Primary Health Care (PHC), Reproductive Health (RH), HIV, Nutrition, WASH, Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) programs in Pakistan, Cambodia and Bangladesh. He has provided leadership and strategic guidance to different Health, Hygiene, Nutrition and Family Planning program with budget about $30 Million in 14 districts in Bangladesh and has a special interest in public Health System Development, health and nutrition in emergency, and Behavior Change Communication (BCC) to address equity and gender issues in accessing the basic health services. Jahangir  is a registered physician with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from Dhaka University, Bangladesh and Master in Science (MSc), Public Health in Developing Countries degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK.

Rina Rani Paul | Program Manager-Research | CARE Bangladesh

Rina Rani Paul has  more than eight years experience in program and research settings that resulted in an in-depth understanding of the contextual issues related to health and nutrition in Bangladesh, especially maternal and child health and nutrition and community health system. She has worked with leading Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Research Projects in Bangladesh for four years, implementing and monitoring both efficacy and effectiveness studies in the community.  In addition, she has worked with reputed study groups conducting large clinical trials and cohort studies and following pregnant women and adult population for health outcomes. Starting as a field worker, she was progressively entrusted and challenged with more complex and supervisory work involving research project management. Rina Rani passed the MBBS from Rajshahi Medical College under Rajshahi University in Bangladesh in 2000 and is currently enrolled in the Masters in Public Health Programme under the Department of Public Health, State University in Bangladesh.

Mariela Rodriguez | Senior Program Officer-SRMH | CARE USA

Mariela Rodriguez  is Senior Program Officer for Knowledge Management and Global Coordination for the Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health (SRMH) team at CARE. Mariela focuses on finding ways to elevate and share CARE’s global SRMH programming across the CARE world and with external partners and donors. Prior to working at CARE, Mariela worked on rights-based approaches to voluntary family planning, maternal health policy networks, gender inequality and human rights.  She has co-authored four peer-reviewed journal articles.  She received her master’s in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs from American University’s School of International Service and her BA in Political Science from Georgia State University.

To be hired | Senior Account Manager-Health | CARE UK

 

Introduction to Human-Centered Design (HCD)

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Human-Centered Design (HCD)

“Human-centered design is a creative approach to problem solving; it’s a process that starts with the people you’re designing for and ends with new solutions that are tailor made to suit their needs. Human-centered design is all about building a deep empathy with the people you’re designing for; generating tons of ideas; building a bunch of prototypes; sharing what you’ve made with the people you’re designing for; and eventually putting your innovative new solution out in the world.” –IDEO.org

Why do a lab on human-centered design?

All innovation labs, accelerators, and incubators have “user-centered” or “human-centered” approaches as a core element.  They also embrace a mindset of rapid prototyping, testing, and iteration.  You’ll often hear the popular phrase, “failing fast” or “failing forward, faster.”  You’ll find those same threads in virtually all programs worldwide.

For the first lab session, teams are going to be introduced to these mindsets and also provided with practical tools to give them exposure to the full human-centered design process so they can immediately start doing something with it .  Experts from GRID Impact will be presenting this lab. More on them in another post!

Want to learn more?

Check out this Devex article on human-centered design for development.

Watch this video where PSI staff talk about embracing the methods of HCD as part of their way of working:

 

Meet the Teams: Community Score Card©

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What is the Community Score Card©?  It is an innovative approach that brings together community members, service providers and government officials to identify barriers to effective, high-quality service delivery and develop a shared plan for improvement. Watch this video to learn more!

Meet the Team

THUMBIKO MSISKA | Project Manager | CARE Malawi

Thumbiko Msiska is a Project Manager with CARE Malawi, and for the last several years he has overseen the implementation and evaluation of CARE’s Community Score Card, as social accountability approach, in improving reproductive health services in Ntcheu, Malawi. Thumbiko was on the team that invented CARE’s Community Score Card in 2002, and today is supporting the design and establishment of a social enterprise consultancy for catalyzing the reach and impact of the approach. Thumbiko has 15 years’ experience in designing, managing, implementing and evaluating health and livelihood development programs in Malawi, and in working at community, district and national levels.  Thumbiko has represented CARE’s social accountability and health work at a number of international conferences and is a co-author on several corresponding publications. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health from the University of Malawi and is finalizing his Master of Public Health with the same University.

KRISS CHINKHOTA | Project Coordinator | CARE Malawi

Over the past several years, Kriss has supported the day-to-day implementation and evaluation of the Community Score Card in Ntcheu, Malawi for improving the delivery of quality health services. Kriss has also provided capacity building and training on the CSC to other organizations within Malawi and CARE Mozambique, and sharing CSC experiences at Asia governance meeting in Nepal. Going forward, Kriss will be on the Consulting Roster providing CSC capacity building, training and design support to clients.  Kriss will also be supporting the R&D Lab, including overseeing the day-to-day execution of the first model the team will be testing: linking the CSC process and evidence from the local level to district and national level advocacy initiatives. Kriss has worked with CARE International in different portfolios since 2008; and has over10 years’ experience in programs monitoring, learning, evaluation and data management ranging from tools development to collection, processing and analysis. Previously, Kriss has worked with Maimwana Research Project, Save the Children, Health Foundation Consortium, and Maikhanda. He holds a Bachelor of Health Systems Management, Exploits University obtained in 2016, a Diploma in Information processing obtained from the Polytechnic, University of Malawi in 2004 and Monitoring and Evaluation Certificate from the University of Cape Town obtained in 2008.

CAROLYN GRANT | Technical Specialist, Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health |CARE USA

Carolyn provides programmatic and technical support to advance the work of CARE’s Global Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health team across a variety of projects and initiatives. Carolyn supports the team’s SRMH and governance programming, including overseeing the start-up of a social enterprise consultancy for catalyzing the reach and impact of CARE’s Community Score Card. Carolyn is the team’s technical lead for adolescent sexual, reproductive health (ASRH), advising on the design, implementation and evaluation of ASRH interventions across our programs and representing CARE’s ASRH work in external forums. Carolyn also supports the documentation and sharing of evidence and learning from a large maternal and child health project in Bihar, India. Prior, Carolyn served in short term assignments supporting CARE’s work in the areas of grant stewardship, and policy and advocacy.  Before joining CARE, she worked at a public relations firm in Washington, DC where she was responsible for all aspects of implementing a public diplomacy campaign for a foreign government.  Carolyn also has experience working with FHI 360’s Gender Center on human trafficking issues. She holds a Masters in International Affairs from George Washington University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

SENIOR BUSINESS MANAGER | To be hired

CARE Scale X Design Challenge and Accelerator Finalists Announced

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15 finalists have been selected from 73 applications to participate in the first ever CARE Scale X Design Challenge and Accelerator! The Accelerator Program will start in May with the first lab, Human-Centered Design. Stay tuned for more blog posts along the way so you can follow the finalists’ journey, including Meet the Teams posts.

  • Broadening Gender: Why Masculinities Matter?- Sri Lanka
    • Vindhya  Fernando, Hashitha Abeywardana, Zainab Ibrahim, Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala
  • CHAT! Contraception- Cambodia
    • Julia Battle, Tanya Barnfield, Jenny Conrad, Maly Man, Chenda Net, Supraja Suresh
  • Community Score Card©- Malawi/USA
    • Carolyn Grant, Thumbiko Msiska, Kriss Chinkhota
  • Core To Care: Get the Land Right- Tanzania
    • Jane Mgone, Mustapha Issa, Thabi Masoud, Shelina Mallozzi, Paul Daniels
  • Decent Work and Empowerment of Paid Domestic Workers- Ecuador
    • Catalina Vargas, Fernando Unda, Miriam Moya
  • A Different Cup of Tea- Sri Lanka
    • Lahari de Alwis, Ananda Alahakoon, Faizal A. Cader,  Dayal Perera, Roshan Prashantha, Kalani Ranasinghe
  • Chomoka (Digital VSLA)- Tanzania
    • Christian Pennotti, Mwinbe Fikirini, Ken Banks, Mark Malhotra, Karen Vandergaag
  • Journeys of Transformation: Connected Couples- Rwanda/CI/USA
    • Lauren Hendricks, Doris Bartel, Sidonie Uwimpuhwe, Bena Musembi, Janvier Kubwimana
  • Krishi Utsho Agricultural Input Microfranchise (AIM) Network – Bangladesh/USA
    • Maruf Azam, Sabrina Sahrin, Scott Merrill, Nurul Siddiquee
  • Power of People- Scaling up GED Training- Ethiopia/Uganda/USA
    • Theresa Hwang, Walter Fordham, Esther Watts, Rose Amulen, Kassie McIlvaine
  • Promoting Women Entrepreneurship Through an Inclusive Gendered Dairy Value Chain- India
    • R.Devaprakash, Balaji .R, Kumar. C, Shashank Bibhu
  • Public Private Partnerships (PPP) for Health Inequities- Bangladesh/UK/USA
    • Jahangir Hossain, Rina Rani Paul, Svetlana Ancker, Mariela Rodriguez
  • Social Impact Incubator (SII)- Burundi/Norway
    • Jimmy Mategeko, Louise Nzosaba, Josee Ntabahungu, Bosco Ntirivamunda, Rose Marie Nkumbiri, Laurent Uwumuremyi , Sebastien Fornerod
  • Transforming health by providing Team Based Goals and Incentives (TBGI) to Community Health Workers in Bihar- India
    • Indrajit Choudhary, Amitava Banerjee, Sunil Mohanty, Mohammed Aftab Alam, Amarjeet Prabhakar
  • Young Men Initiative (YMI)- Balkans/Norway/Austria/USA/UK/ Germany – Luxemburg
    • John Crownover, Sasa Petkovic, Besnik Leka, Marina Starcevic Cviko, Zvjezdana Batkovic, Hilde Roren, Judit Kontseková, Amanda Moll, Paul-André Wilton, Thomas Knoll

Thank you to all who applied and shared their ideas.