The Study explored numerous norms that directly or indirectly influence OPV0 vaccination and child rearing. Some of the determining norms of OPV0 vaccination prevailing among most socio-economic classes are restricted mobility of delivered women and newborn during postpartum/neonatal period.

January 26, 2026

This study assesses experiences with implementing the manufacturer’s model in four middle-income countries where donor support was fully or partially withdrawn.

February 2, 2026

A Blueprint for Answering the Call: Results and Lessons Learned from SHOPS Child Health Programs

ORGANIZATION USAID YEAR PUBLISHED 2015 English

January 27, 2026

A Census of Private Health Facilities in Six States of Nigeria

The private sector is an important provider of health care in Nigeria. Prior to this report, however, data on the number of private sector facilities in Nigeria, the services they offer, and their geographic distribution were relatively limited.

February 2, 2026

A Multi-faceted Digital Approach to Learning from Beneficiaries and Improving Health Knowledge and Behaviors in Haiti

ORGANIZATION USAID YEAR PUBLISHED 2018 English

January 26, 2026

A Playbook for Capitation: Lessons Learned From Health Insurance Companies in Kenya

Expanding health insurance coverage may require new models that promote efficiency and lower costs, making it more widely affordable.

February 2, 2026

A Summative Evaluation of the Pilot Facilities Providing TB-dots in the Private Sector

An assessment of the 20 health facilities was conducted in December 2007. The main objective of the evaluation was to assess the overall performance of the PPM-DOTS sites and propose a set of recommendations for program scale-up and replication.

January 26, 2026

A Total Market Approach to Diarrhea Management

ORGANIZATION USAID YEAR PUBLISHED 2014 English

January 27, 2026

Addressing Gender in the SHOPS Plus Nigeria Family Planning (FP) Training Program:

Gender has implications for how people (especially women and girls) are able to access FP services.

February 2, 2026

Adherence to Standards for MNH Service Delivery at Public and Private Facilities: A MultiCountry Analysis of Service Provision Assessment Data

This analysis, conducted under the Data for Impact (D4I) award, leverages Service Provision Assessment (SPA) data from 2012–2022 to evaluate the adherence of MNH service providers to WHO process standards. The study examines differences between public and private facilities, including for-profit and not-for-profit (NFP) facilities, and tracks changes over time in selected countries.

September 23, 2025

Assessing and Improving Quality of Private Family Planning/Reproductive Health Provider Network in Nepal

Presentation: Assess the status of FP service delivery through a network of private pharmacy-based providers (also known as the ‘Sangini’ network)

October 2, 2025

Assessment of Commercial Partnership Opportunities In Russia

As a precursor to possible collaborative activities, USAID/Russia requested an assessment of the availability and quality of modern contraceptives as well as recommendations on expanding the method mix among the general population.

February 2, 2026

Assessment of India’s Locally Manufactured Contraceptive Product Supply

This report, prepared under the aegis of the Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) project, examines Indian manufacturers of generic versions of hormonal contraceptives (oral contraceptive pills, emergency contraception, and injectable contraceptives) and intrauterine devices.

October 2, 2025

Bangladesh Family Planning Private Health Sector Assessment

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/ Bangladesh commissioned the SHOPS project to conduct a private sector assessment in Bangladesh that would inform potential strategic investments in long-acting and permanent methods (LA/PMs) and injectable contraceptive service provision in the private sector.

January 29, 2026

Bangladesh Private Sector Assessment of Long Acting and Permanent Family Planning Methods and Injectable Contraceptives

The findings of this assessment are a clear case for investing in LAPMs.

Best Practices in Social Marketing Safe Water Solution for Household Water Treatment

This paper synthesizes lessons learned, best practices, successes, and challenges of social marketing safe water solution, and discusses how these lessons may be applied to planning safe water treatment programs around the globe.

February 2, 2026

Better Together: Linking Family Planning and Community Health for Health Equity and Impact

With the endorsement of WHO, USAID and other policymaking bodies, integrated services, including family planning, represent the future of community and primary health care.

August 10, 2017

Building a Viable Commercial Market for Household Water Treatment Products at the Base of the Pyramid

Appropriate water disinfection at the household level can improve microbial water quality and significantly reduce diarrheal episodes, yet achieving sustainable national scale up of household water treatment (HWT) programs and changing behaviors of the targeted populations who do not have access to safe water have proven to be a challenge.

January 26, 2026

Building Public-Private Linkages to Advance Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Services in Africa

Workshop to strengthen existing MOH capacity to engage private sector in RH/FP and HIV/AIDs related services

October 2, 2025

Building Sustainability in Social Marketing Programs

The social marketing approach: Based on the marketing mix: “A planned mix of the controllable elements of a marketing plan commonly known as 4Ps”

January 26, 2026

Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Emergency Application Guidelines

USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) is issuing these Emergency Application Guidelines per relevant federal laws, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) policy, and international humanitarian agreements. These Guidelines are issued under restricted eligibility conditions for emergency/disaster assistance or based on programmatic purpose in compliance with USAID Automated Directive System (ADS) 303. They apply to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) submitting applications to BHA for either new awards or modifications of existing awards. These Guidelines provide detailed information about the application submission and award process for grants, cooperative agreements, and fixed amount awards, hereafter termed “awards.”

September 23, 2025

Can communication campaigns promote demand for health insurance in Kenya?

The private health insurance sector in Kenya faces a number of challenges that hinder it from maximizing on its potential to improve access to HIV care and treatment. A communications campaign may be an effective strategy to influence the broad population. However, health insurance providers should have evidence around the conditions in which communications campaigns may be useful.

January 26, 2026

Can Generic Contraceptive Manufacturers Increase Equity Without Compromising Quality?

Presentation

October 2, 2025

Can SMS Messages Improve Private Provider Treatment of Childhood Diarrhea? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Ghana

This study evaluated a mobile phone message-based intervention to promote appropriate treatment of pediatric diarrhea among drug sellers in Ghana. The results of the randomized controlled trial show that text messages improved providers’ knowledge of appropriate treatments but not their actual practices.

January 27, 2026

Case Management of Childhood Illness in the Private Health Sector: A review of models of care and their effectiveness in reducing childhood diarrhea, malaria, and pneumonia

The Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus project conducted a review of peer-reviewed publications and grey literature in order to summarize existing evidence of integrated approaches to the management of childhood illness (including diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria) being implemented by the private commercial sector and other non-state entities.

Case Study: Improving Private Practitioners’ Case Management of Childhood Illness

Uganda’s Ministry of Health’s Integrated Management of Childhood Illness worked with stakeholders to first develop an appropriate strategy, followed by an intervention to improve the quality of private practitioners case management of childhood illnesses.

Community Approaches to Child Health in Cameroon—Applying the C-IMCI Framework

In 1992, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) developed the IMCI strategy to address the five major causes of child mortality (diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, measles and malnutrition) using an integrated ‘whole child’ approach. This strategy recognizes that children often suffer from multiple illness events at the same time or in close proximity to each other, yet are typically diagnosed by health personnel only for the reported illness.

February 24, 2020

Community Approaches to Child Health in Malawi

This paper documents World Relief’s approach to C-IMCI interventions at the household level in Malawi, where the government is dedicated to implementing C-IMCI through its community network of health surveillance assistants.

Community Case Management Essentials

The purpose of this guide is to provide operational guidance to design, plan, implement, monitor, and/or advocate for CCM that responds to local needs. It is a “how-to” guide for programs, rather than a source of clinical guidance.

Community Volunteers and their knowledge and practice related to immunization, vaccine preventable diseases and disease surveillance in hard to reach pastoralist community of Ethiopia

Objective: To asses the role of CGPP CVs in Ethiopia, their knowledge of vaccine-preventable diseases, and their practices related to polio immunization, other immunizations, and surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases.

January 26, 2026

Community-based intervention packages facilitated by NGOs demonstrate plausible evidence for child mortality impact

Evidence exists that community-based intervention packages can have substantial child and newborn mortality impact, and may help more countries meet Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) targets.

March 4, 2020

Community-Based Tuberculosis Prevention and Care

This document is designed to serve as a handbook, or primer, for NGOs and CSOs that are considering joining the fight against TB. It provides information on TB and how it is prevented, diagnosed, and treated, how TB programs work on the ground, how communities and CSOs can get involved, and special populations that need extra attention. Step-by-step guidance on getting started in addressing TB, pitfalls to avoid, and a list of useful resources are included.

August 9, 2017

Complexity-Aware Monitoring

This discussion note outlines general principles and promising approaches for monitoring complex aspects of USAID development assistance.

September 23, 2025

Consortium Management and Leadership Training Facilitator’s Guide

Although this guide approaches consortium management with foremost consideration for the implications for Food for Peace-funded development food assistance programs, this consortium management and leadership training can serve as a useful framework for strengthening consortia of any type.

August 9, 2017

Contraceptive Security in the Central Asian Republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan

The report provides an overview of these two areas and offers specific recommendations for possible USAID interventions to improve the availability of affordable and quality family planning products in the three Central Asian countries.

October 2, 2025

Contraceptive Security Ready Lesson 4

Early gains for contraceptive security can be easily lost. In the face of competing health priorities, scarce resources, and shifting political winds, pressure can be kept on governments, donors, and others to not only remain committed to contraceptive security, but also to act in tangible, purposeful ways.

January 29, 2026

Contraceptive Security Ready Lesson 5

The timely collection, analysis, and use of reliable data are crucial for planning, monitoring, and evaluating progress towards contraceptive security. This requires data collection activities, from population-based data gathered through surveys, to program data from governments and donors, to health systems data. Data collection alone is not sufficient. The ultimate purpose of data collection is their use in evidence-based design, manage this a procurement of several million condoms was initiated.

Contraceptive Security: Ready Lessons 2

Assess challenges and opportunities for 2 contraceptive security by making a joint diagnosis of the problems and strengths that exist in the system.

October 2, 2025

Contraceptive Security: Ready Lessons 3

Develop and implement a multi-partner 3 strategy that leverages the assets of the public and private sectors.

Contracting-out Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services: Contracting Management and Operations

Increasingly, governments in developing countries seek to offer more accessible, higher quality and cost-effective health services to their target populations by contracting with private providers—both not-for-profit and for-profit—to deliver care. Reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) services1 have been contracted out either individually or bundled with other essential health services.

January 29, 2026

CORE Group Country Collaboration Model: Development of a National Community Participation Policy in Cambodia

This paper aims to discuss a project with the purpose to support a multi-sectoral, participatory process resulting in a national policy on community participation in health.

March 4, 2020

Costs of Healthy Baby Voucher Program Services

This study analyzes the costs of the services delivered under this program to develop optimal reimbursement rates, budgets, and strategies for future programs. No previous study on maternal voucher programs in Uganda has examined the costs of services as a basis for determining rational reimbursement rates.

January 27, 2026

Côte d’Ivoire Private Health Sector Assessment: Family Planning

Despite economic and political improvements, a significant number of health challenges persist in Côte d’Ivoire and access to care remains difficult for many.

January 29, 2026

Counseling, Informed Consent, and Debriefing for Cesarean Section in Nigeria

To better understand attitudes, preferences, and practices related to CCD in the context of both emergency and non-emergency surgical obstetric care, the MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics project * conducted a mixed methods research study (including interviews, focus group discussions, observations, and record reviews) in four health facilities in Ebonyi and Sokoto States in Nigeria, between November 2022 and March 2023.

September 23, 2025

Deep Dive: An Exploration for Innovation

Key Social Marketing (KSM) operates on the premise that the primary barrier to attracting family planning users among lower income couples is the lack of family planning information available and the inability to access to high quality services. To address this, KSM operates a media and education campaign around three hormonal products.

January 26, 2026

Designing for Behavior Change

The “Designing for Behavior Change” workshop responds to community health managers’ and planners’ need for a practical behavioral framework that aids them in planning their projects strategically for maximum effectiveness. It is built upon the BEHAVE Framework, developed by the Academy for Education Development (AED). The workshop trains participants to apply AED’s BEHAVE Framework to improve maternal and child health programming.

September 5, 2017

Designing for Behavior Change: For Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Health and Nutrition

This field-tested, six-day curriculum responds to community development program managers’ and planners’ need for a practical behavioral framework that strategically aids them in planning for maximum effectiveness. The DBC Framework was developed from the earlier BEHAVE Framework (developed by AED) by members of CORE Group’s Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Working Group and the Food Security and Nutrition Network SBC Task Force.

August 9, 2017

Designing Participatory Meetings and Brownbags: A TOPS Quick Guide to Linking Development Practitioners

Designing Participatory Meetings and Brownbags is part of a series of quick guides produced by the Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program to improve knowledge sharing and program learning by development practitioners.

Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policymakers

This document is an in-depth review of issues and questions that should be considered when addressing key issues relevant for large-scale CHW programs.

Distribution Models for Water Treatment Products in Malawi: Lessons Learned

This report describes four models, presents data on their coverage, and draws lessons learned about their implementation to inform scale-up efforts. Each of the four models is described in a case study format, using primary data from a household survey on water treatment behavior conducted by SHOPS in June 2013, supplemented with secondary data from monitoring and field reports collected by implementing partners.

January 26, 2026

Distribution of Point of Use Water Treatment Product Through Mutual Health Organizations in Rwanda: Baseline Survey Results

A baseline evaluation was conduced in December 2007, to assess knowledge, attitude, and use of the product and diarrhea prevalence among mutuelle families with children under five. The baseline evaluation was conducted in the two intervention districts and one control district, Karongi (where the pilot project will not be launched in 2008). A follow-up evaluation will be conducted in late 2008, to assess the impact of this pilot project on the use of Sûr’Eau and diarrhea prevalence among children under five. This report presents the findings from the baseline survey, and the resulting recommendations for the pilot project implementation.

Emergency Supply Chain Management Checklist

Checklist for People and Processes, Community Planning, and Logistics and Transport.

Emergency Supply Chain Playbook: Overview, User, and Quick Guides

Guides

October 2, 2025

Emergency Toolkit for Food Security and Nutrition Protection: Cholera Disease Preparedness Community Group Module

Through a TOPS Program Small Grant, CORE Group has developed a module to improve preparedness for and response of communities in countries at risk of a cholera epidemic.

August 9, 2017

Engaging the Private Sector in Family Planning Financing

Lessons from Mali

January 29, 2026

Enhancing Nutrition and Food Security during the First 1,000 Days through Gender-sensitive Social and Behavior Change

This technical resource guide, along with the complementary technical brief, is designed to build the capacity of development practitioners working in nutrition and food security to plan, implement, and evaluate gender-sensitive SBC programming in order to improve nutritional outcomes for pregnant and lactating women (PLW) and children under two.

August 9, 2017

Environmental Sustainability in Humanitarian Supply Chain

This document is an additional resource (not required) to Section 12.13. Supply Chain Requirements listed in BHA Emergency Application Guidelines (required). It recommends concrete measures that humanitarian organizations can take to make their logistics and supply infrastructure and practices more environmentally sustainable.

October 2, 2025

Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions Framework

Developed in 1997, the Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) framework has been implemented in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is a tool for advocacy, planning, training and delivery of an integrated package of interventions to reach the high coverage (>90%) needed to achieve public health impact.

August 9, 2017

Evaluate child vaccination timing and interval between doses in hard to reach, pastoral and semipastoralist areas in Ethiopia

Study Objective: To evaluate timeliness of vaccines given, assess interval between vaccine doses identify associated maternal factors among children 12 to 23 months of age.

January 26, 2026

Evaluating the Impact of Mobiles for Reproductive Health (m4RH)

Presentation to mHealth Working Group

October 2, 2025

Évaluation du secteur privé de la santé de la Côte d’Ivoire : Planification familiale

En dépit des améliorations économiques et politiques, la Côte d’Ivoire fait toujours face à un nombre important de défis en matière de santé, et l’accès aux soins reste difficile pour de nombreuses personnes.

Expanding Access to Contraception: How Ability to Pay Affects Use and Source of IUDs

Greater use of long-acting and permanent methods (LAPMs) of contraception – intrauterine devices (IUD), implants, and sterilization – has the potential to increase continuation rates and reduce unintended pregnancies. In the past few years, efforts to revitalize IUD use have intensified. IUDs are highly effective and can be used for up to 10−12 years, but can also be quickly reversed with fertility returning swiftly once the device is removed.

January 29, 2026

Expanding Access to Contraception: IUD Fees and Subsidies in Egypt

One way for developing countries to afford the costs of family planning is to reduce the number of women with high ability to pay from obtaining subsidized (public) services. Public sector resources can then be directed to women with the greatest financial need. Such targeting is an important component of contraceptive security because it has the potential to expand access to family planning to society’s poorest groups while addressing equity concerns.

Expanding Public-Private Collaboration Removes Barriers to Tuberculosis Treatment

Active Tuberculosis (TB), one of Ethiopia’s most infectious and potentially deadly diseases, affects an estimated 410,000 Ethiopians. Only a third of the country’s active TB cases are currently detected and treated; yet each person with active TB who is not treated potentially infects 10 to 15 others every year.

February 2, 2026

Expanding TB Services to the Private Health Sector in Ethiopia

The Private Sector Program-Ethiopia (PSP-E) is focused on increasing the capacity of private sector health care providers to deliver HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) services. Abt Associates Inc., the lead PSP-E partner, works with Population Services International, IntraHealth International, and Banyan Global to support the implementation of TB/Directly Observed Therapy–Short Course (DOTS) services in 90 private sector clinics in Addis Ababa, Amhara, and Oromia regions.

January 26, 2026

Extending the Reach: Contracting Out Hiv Services to the Private Health Sector in Gauteng, South Africa

This study focuses on the experience of Right to Care Health Services (RTCHS), a South African private company that manages HIV and AIDS services on behalf of several clients, including PEPFAR, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the South African government, employers, and medical aid schemes.

October 2, 2025

Family Planning at the Social Security Institute in Paraguay: Building Capacity and Improving Quality of Care

SHOPS began activities in Paraguay in 2010 with a Private Sector Assessment (PSA). The PSA analyzed Paraguay’s market mix and segmentation, and identified trends in sourcing patterns of FP products and services. Analysis from the PSA indicated increasing utilization of oral contraceptive (OC) pills, condoms, and injectables for FP, but relatively low use of long-acting methods (Crosby, O’Hanlon, and Armand, 2010).

January 29, 2026

Family Planning Health India Market Description

FHM Engage India Workplan Annexure

October 2, 2025

Family planning knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Indian married youth: Preliminary findings from a household survey in Lucknow and Kanpur Nagar, Uttar Pradesh

USAID’s Global Leadership Program for Youth provided funding to conduct a baseline survey on young Indian married couples’ FP knowledge, attitudes, and practices to (1) inform program development by better understanding the existing situation and needs of married youth in Lucknow, and (2) serve as a baseline against which to compare changes over time and evaluate elements of the program, with a follow-on survey planned for early 2009.

February 2, 2026

Financing Preventative HIV Services: The Case of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Namibia

A presentation by Dineo Dawn Pereko, SHOPS Country Representative for Namibia.

October 2, 2025

Focus on Families and Culture: A guide for conducting a participatory assessment on maternal and child nutrition

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on how to plan and carry out a rapid community assessment on family roles and influence related to the first critical 1,000 days of life i.e. during pregnancy, with newborns and young children up to two years of age.

September 23, 2025

Grandmothers: A Learning Opportunity

The perspective on child development programming that emerges from the combination of these concepts points to the need to view grandmothers as key actors in family systems and as an invaluable resource for promoting optimal child development at that level.

Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) Implementation Guide

Helping Babies Breathe is designed to coordinate with other interventions in a package selected to improve neonatal and maternal health.

March 27, 2018

HIV/AIDS Resource Materials

This document is a guide to help readers consider their needs and abilities to implement any technical aspect of child survival.

March 4, 2020

How Social Capital in Community Systems Strengthens Health Systems: People, Structures, Processes

The purpose of this document is to draw attention to the undervalued resources of a community in programming to improve health status for maternal and child health (MCH), infectious diseases, nutrition, family planning (FP) and chronic diseases.

December 17, 2018

Improving Hormonal Contraceptive Supply: The Potential Contribution of Manufacturers of Generic and Biosimilar Drugs

This paper describes the different types of hormonal-contraceptive manufacturers and opportunities for increased competition from generic and biosimilar suppliers in the procurement field, as well as the commercial sector.

October 2, 2025

Improving Quality of Women’s Health and Family Planning Services in Jordan’s Private Health Sector

Presentation by Dr. Nagham Abu Shakra, Quality Assurance Specialist and Medical Advisor 

Improving the Quality of Family Planning Services Provision in Private Health Facilities in Lagos State, Nigeria

Strengthen private sector clinic-based family planning, selected reproductive health, and maternal and child health services (FP/RH/MCH) in Nigeria

Increasing Access to Maternal Health Services through Vouchers: The Uganda Healthy Baby Experience

Presentation by Anna Mackay, SIFPO Deputy Director

Increasing family planning access and choice

The key lessons in this paper will help service providers, programme managers and donors implement and/ or strengthen clinical outreach programmes for reproductive health and family planning services.

Insurance as a Way to Increase the Utilization of Reproductive Health Services

Increasing access to and utilization of reproductive health (RH) services in developing countries is critical to improve RH outcomes and reach the Millennium Development Goals, especially the reduction in maternal mortality. In most developing countries, there is inadequate public funding of health care services, due in part to the lack of financial resources resulting from limited tax revenues.

February 2, 2026

Integrating Breast Cancer Screening into FP/RH Women’s Outreach

Presentation on the Private Sector Project for Women’s Health Jordan 2005-2010

October 2, 2025

Integrating Family Planning into Universal Health Coverage Efforts

This brief describes common approaches used to Finance health within the context of universal health coverage and the significance of these approaches for family planning.

January 30, 2026

Introducing Improved Treatment Of Childhood Diarrhea With Zinc And Ort In Tanzania

In Tanzania, POUZN aimed to work simultaneously with both the public and private commercial sectors building on their respective strengths, facilitating communication, and creating synergies between their different processes.

February 2, 2026

Introducing Prospective Payment Mechanisms in Kenya

This report summarizes the discussion points and outputs from the two-day capitation workshop held on 22-23 May, 2014 supported by the SHOPS project. The workshop brought together major private health insurers and health providers for the first time to concretize opportunities for collaboratively addressing the rising costs of private health care through innovative payment mechanisms.

Introducing Zinc Through the Private Sector in Benin

The survey assessed changes in behavior and attitudes related to childhood diarrhea and zinc since 2009 and also asked new questions to enable SHOPS to better understand determinants of zinc use and therefore develop more effective programs.

Jacaranda Health

The HANSHEP Health Enterprise Fund, implemented by the SHOPS project, awarded Jacaranda Health a grant to integrate emergency obstetric care (EmOC) into their operations to improve quality and reduce costs of Csections. Jacaranda addresses the need for holistic health care that is patient centered, and includes follow up services such as contraception counseling.

January 26, 2026

Knowledge, Practice, Coverage (KPC) Survey Training Curriculum

This training of survey trainers (TOST) curriculum is designed to prepare KPC TOST participants to replicate training activities to teach KPC field staff to carry out a KPC survey.

August 31, 2017

Make Me a Change Agent: A Multisectoral SBC Resource for Community Workers and Field Staff

These lessons seek to build the skills of community-level workers, such as community development agents, community health workers, and agriculture extension agents, so that they can be more effective behavior change promoters in their communities.

August 9, 2017

Malawi Peri-Urban Sanitation Project Report

To encourage residents of peri-urban areas to transition from shared and traditional latrines and increase the market segment for improved latrines, SHOPS initiated an activity, the Malawi Peri-Urban Sanitation project, which aimed to introduce a more affordable improved latrine. The activity began with a global review of transitional sanitation products to learn from other projects around the world.

January 26, 2026

Maternal and Newborn Standards and Indicators Compendium

This guide is designed to assist program designers working for international NGOs in selecting essential components, actions and appropriate indicators for chosen interventions in maternal and newborn care.

March 3, 2020

Maternal and Newborn Standards and Indicators Compendium

The Maternal and Newborn Standards and Indicators Compendium is designed to assist program designers working for international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) develop high quality programs focused on women and children. The Maternal and Newborn Standards and Indicators Compendium is the result of a three-year collaborative effort led by the Safe Motherhood/Reproductive Health (SMRH) Working Group, CORE Group.

March 4, 2020

Maternal Mental Health: A Toolkit for Engaging Faith Actors as Change Agents

This toolkit is a resource for faith actors’ role of providing holistic, culturally appropriate care to the communities they serve.

October 2, 2025

Maximizing Private Sector Contribution To Family Planning In The Europe & Eurasia Region

This document is designed to inform USAID Missions and bilateral RH/FP programs in the E&E region about the private sector’s current activities, as well as opportunities for further leveraging this sector in meeting RH/FP goals.

February 2, 2026

Methodology: Family Planning Market Analyzer

The Family Planning Market Analyzer is an interactive web-based tool that allow users to look at the current FP market and explore potential scenarios for a total market approach (TMA).

January 30, 2026

mHealth Field Guide for Newborn Health

This guide that explains how mHealth serves newborn health through referral and tracking of mothers and infants, decision support for CHWs, CHW supervision, scheduling and tracking postpartum and postnatal visits, and teaching and counseling for mothers and families.

August 9, 2017

mHealth in West Africa: A Landscape Report

This report provides an overview of mHealth activity in the West Africa region, including the 15 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries and two additional focus countries for USAID’s West Africa Mission: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

February 2, 2026

Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women

The Minimum Dietary Diversity for WRA (MDD-W) indicator defined and described in this document is a food group diversity indicator that has been shown to reflect one key dimension of diet quality: micronutrient adequacy, summarised across 11 micronutrients,

January 26, 2026

Mobiles for Quality Improvement Pilot in Uganda

The objectives of m4QI were to develop and test a technology-supported approach to performance improvement including processes for identifying performance gaps in adherence to clinical protocols, a platform to manage and automate the delivery and receipt of text message reminders and quizzes to address the gaps, and production of actionable data to improve effectiveness of supportive supervision and follow-up. To support scalability and replicability, the pilot platform was designed for users of low-end phones, and those without Internet access.

February 2, 2026

Moving Toward Sustainability: Transition Strategies For Social Marketing Programs

This paper provides donors, program developers, program managers, researchers, and others in the social marketing field with a practical approach to guide conceptual thinking and sustainable program design.

Navigating Uncharted Waters: A Guide to the Legal and Regulatory Environment for Family Planning Services in the Private Sector

This guide helps RH/FP program designers and implementers conduct a legal and regulatory assessment to prevent barriers to programs and address constraints encountered during implementation.

October 2, 2025

Nutrition Program Design Assistant: A Tool for Program Planners, Version 2

The Nutrition Program Design Assistant is a tool to help organizations design the nutrition component of their community-based maternal and child health, food security, or other development program. The tool focuses on prevention and also provides guidance on recuperative approaches that are needed when there is a high prevalence of acute malnutrition.

August 9, 2017

Operational Manual for Scaling Up TB and TB/HIV Care in Private Health Facilities at the Regional Level in Ethiopia

The purpose of this manual is to assist regional health bureaus to operationalize the integration and implementation of PPM (TB and TB/HIV) services at the regional and sub regional levels in the private sector. Discussions on the feasibility of providing these services in the private sector are frequently taking place in the absence of comprehensive, regional specific information on the resource implications of such activities.

January 26, 2026

Opportunities to increase uptake of maternal and child health products

ORGANIZATION USAID YEAR PUBLISHED 2017 English

January 27, 2026

Participatory Facilitation Techniques Workshop Curriculum

This curriculum equips trainers to lead a short skill-building workshop to provide meeting facilitators with some new “tools” and techniques for facilitation. We encourage trainers to modify this workshop as necessary to fit your audience and your needs.

August 9, 2017

Partnering with Grandmothers and Healers to Eliminate the “Disease of Dust” in Senegal A Case Study in Community-Based Tuberculosis Control

In 2003, Christian Children’s Fund (CCF) Senegal began to offer community-based TB services. This case study documents that effort and suggests that community health staff and volunteers, with relatively short training, are able to successfully play critical roles within the Ministry of Health’s national tuberculosis program.

March 3, 2020

Partnership-Define Quality (PDQ) Facilitation Guide & PDQ Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit

The Partnership Defined Quality Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit provides a set of tools including supervisory checklists, mapping tools and an exit interview to support the implementation of PDQ.

March 27, 2018

Private Provider Networks: The Role of Viability in Expanding the Supply of Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services

As the private sector plays an increasingly critical role in the delivery of reproductive health/family planning (RH/FP) services, donors and public health ministries are turning their attention to business arrangements that offer the potential to increase access to high-quality priority health services.

January 29, 2026

Private Sector Mobilization for Family Planning (PRISM) Project Assessment

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Manila’s Private Sector Mobilization for Family Planning (PRISM) project (recently renamed Private Sector Mobilization for Family Health) was designed to harness private sector motivations and capabilities to increase the share of the total need for family planning (FP) the private sector addresses and to reduce the unmet need for FP among women of reproductive age.

Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities

This toolkit is designed to equip faith actors and related stakeholders—such as Ministries of Health, medical and scientific bodies, and non-profit organizations that partner with or work alongside faith actors—with the information and tools needed to raise awareness, reduce misinformation, and address barriers that prevent faith communities, in particular, from engaging in vaccination.

October 2, 2025

PSP-One and Behavior Change Communication (BCC)

Behavior Change Communication (BCC) is an interactive, research-based process to: meet the informational needs of particular audience groups; reduce barriers to behavior change; and motivate audiences to seek appropriate reproductive health and family planning products and services.

February 2, 2026

PSP-One and Private Provider Networks

Networks of private health providers are a promising mechanism to expand the supply of and increased demand for reproductive health and family planning products and services.

PSP-One and Quality Improvement

Quality improvement in the provision of private-sector reproductive health, family planning, and other health products and services is essential to achieve improved health outcomes. In the health field, one definition of quality is to provide the right care, the right way, the first time.

PSP-One and Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation

PSP-One’s Research, Monitoring and Evaluation (RME) team provides support to policy makers and program managers seeking to gain a better understanding of the private health sector by evaluating innovative initiatives and documenting promising approaches.

January 26, 2026

PSP-One and Social Marketing and Pharmaceutical Partnerships

In Peru, PSP-One provides social marketing technical assistance to APROPO, a local NGO. The project focuses on maximizing product access for underserved income contraceptive users while contributing to the organization’s financial self-sufficiency.

Qualitative Research for a Zinc Treatment Program in Nepal: Findings and Recommendations

The Central Department of Population Studies at the Centre for Population Research and Training at Tribhuvan University conducted this study on behalf of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Social Marketing Plus for Diarrheal Disease Control: Point-of-Use Water Disinfection and Zinc Treatment (POUZN) project.

January 27, 2026

Quality Improvement Package for Midwives and Supervisors

The materials in this package were designed for use by midwives in Uganda; however, it has been adapted for use by different cadres (physicians and pharmacists) and for different services (rural primary health care centers and includes chronic conditions as well as MCH and FP), an expanded version for all family planning methods, and three comprehensive modules concerning HIV/AIDS and TB services.

January 29, 2026

REALIZE: Social and Behavioral Change for Gender Equity and Diversity

The Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program and CARE USA are pleased to offer this set of field-friendly activities entitled Realize: Social and Behavior Change for Gender Equity and Diversity (SBC for GED). The aim of these lessons is to build awareness, facilitate critical reflective dialogue, and explore potential action to improve gender equity and diversity among development staff and community members and to identify GED linkages within social and behavior change interventions to increase their effectiveness.

September 14, 2017

Regional trends in private and public provision of long- and short-acting contraceptive methods

What have been the trends in the use of modern contraceptives (LA/PM and short-acting methods) sourced from the private sector (for-profit or commercial) over the past 20 years?

October 2, 2025

Regulatory Barriers to Better Primary Care in Africa – Two Private Sector Examples

The private health sector plays a critical role in the provision of health care in sub-Saharan Africa.

February 2, 2026

RISKNET2 Final Report

The goal of RiskNet2 was to contribute to a reduction in HIV and STI (sexually transmitted infection) transmission and improve sexual health in select countries in Southeast Europe.

Round Table on Social Accountability Malawi, September 2018: Report and Suggestions Moving Forward

On September 6, 2018, UNICEF and USAID co-convened a round table meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi, to bring together 52 stakeholders from civil society, government, academia and funding agencies to discuss the work done under the SAcc EWEC project and the broader learning context for social accountability in Malawi.

March 11, 2019

Safe Childbirth Checklist Landscape Analysis

This document includes the findings from that analysis as well as a mapping of how guidance for vaginal, assisted, and/or surgical birth overlaps, diverges, and reconnects over the care pathway.

September 23, 2025

Safe Water System Improves Health of People Living with HIV

New research shows that safe drinking water dramatically improves the health of all poor people, including HIV-positive people. An abstract presented at the 13th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2003, suggests that use of a safe water system (SWS) resulted in a 37 percent reduction of risk of diarrhea in people with HIV/AIDS. Simply put, SWS is an easy to use, three-step procedure to ensure the availability of clean water.

January 26, 2026

Shops Bangladesh Resource Guide

This resource guide is meant to serve as a useful reference for any other organization considering supporting private sector facilities in the provision of family planning services, especially LARC and PMs.

February 2, 2026

SHOPS Plus Pilot on Private Sector Pharmacies Reporting into DHIS 2: Final Report

The Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus project, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID’s) flagship global initiative in private sector health, designed and implemented an activity that facilitated routine family planning and child health data sharing between participating private pharmacies and the Kenyan government through DHIS 2.

SHOPS Tuberculosis: A Prevention and Care Initiative

Oommen George, Project Leader, SHOPS (India), Abt Associates
Training of University of Manitoba Fellowship Students on…
Application of Program Science Approach in a Developing Country Setting
KHPT, Bangalore, September 4-5, 2014

January 26, 2026

Social Accountability Resources and Tools

These social accountability resources and tools are intended to assist CSOs, non-governmental organizations, and government health program planners, managers and staff to identify and adapt existing guides and tools for effective social accountability strategies.

March 8, 2019

Social Behavior Change for Family Planning

Many health program and government staff would like to get the skills needed for this process—but time and resources are not available for a week(s) long training. This curriculum can share these useful skills without requiring a lot of time or resources.

August 10, 2017

Social Marketing Organizational Development Assessment Tool

The SHOPS Plus team developed this tool to capture a broad range of performance indicators for a social marketing organization and one which fit with the results framework to improve the organization technically, financially, and institutionally.

January 26, 2026

Social Marketing Zinc to Improve Diarrhea Treatment Practices: Findings and Lessons Learned From Cambodia

This report details the results and lessons learned during an assessment of this pilot program.

January 27, 2026

Social Mobilization: Lessons from the CORE Group Polio Project in Angola, Ethiopia, and India

This report places CGPP within the context of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) that began in 1988, defines and describes three varieties of social mobilization, and presents as case examples CGPP’s successful social mobilization work in India, Angola, and Ethiopia.

August 9, 2017

South Africa Corporate Social Responsibility: A Regulatory Review

This regulatory brief examines legal and regulatory policies in South Africa relevant to corporate social responsibility (CSR).

February 2, 2026

South Africa Private Health Sector Assessment

Moving forward, PEPFAR/South Africa’s role is shifting away from directly supporting human resources for health and HIV treatment, towards more of a focused technical assistance role.

South Africa Private Health Sector Assessment

This brief summarizes the South Africa Private Health Sector Assessment conducted by the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project in June through August 2014.

STIGMA: A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person

Resulting from fear, stigma undermines TB care plans and services. Considered for centuries as a fatal illness, TB leads to prejudice, discrimination and isolation, and is showcased through a lens of foreboding, including in Indian cinema. Stigma associated with TB is latent; it manifests when someone is known to have the disease.

January 26, 2026

Stories without an Ending

The purpose of this guide is to help organizations involved in community programs to develop and use SWE.

September 23, 2025

Strategies for Changing the Behavior of Private Providers

This primer looks at the role that challenges and motivations of health care providers—in particular, private providers in developing countries—play in their decision making.

January 26, 2026

Strengthening Gender Based Violence Referral and Response Pathways

USAID’s MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics project, implemented by EngenderHealth, received funding through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to implement activities through a Gender Integrated Response to Emerging COVID 19 Priorities in India. This work addressed the critical need for strengthening gender-based violence (GBV) response and prevention mechanisms at district, community, and facility levels.

September 23, 2025

Study of Changamka’s Maternity Savings Card

ORGANIZATION USAID YEAR PUBLISHED 2013 English

January 27, 2026

Summary of Sustainability Strategies for Social Marketing Programs

This list provides a quick reference guide to the sustainability strategies discussed in detail in Moving Toward Sustainability: Transition Strategies for Social Marketing Programs.

February 2, 2026

Supply Chain Protocols and Contacts

List of essential protocols – immediate and ongoing.

January 26, 2026

Supporting Communities of Practice: A TOPS Quick Guide to Linking Development Practitioners

This is the first in a series of quick guides produced by the Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program to improve knowledge sharing and program learning by development practitioners.

August 9, 2017

Sustainable Social Marketing Self-Assessment Tool

This tool facilitates the staff or stakeholders’ analysis of an SMO to measure where it fits within the sustainability continuum and to set goals for strengthening sustainability along the continuum’s dimensions.

February 2, 2026

Taking Care of a Baby at Home After Birth: What Families Need to Do

This material is meant for outreach to pregnant women and their families with poor access to health services.

August 10, 2017

Tanzania Private Health Sector Assessment

Tanzania‘s National PPP Policy and HSSP II included a call for a private health sector assessment.

February 2, 2026

Tanzania Private Health Sector Lending Assessment

With increasing numbers of Tanzanians turning to the private sector for health care, private providers need financing to grow and improve their services. However, this sector is underfinanced, and banks do not lend to the sector in a significant way, thereby limiting the growth potential of private health care businesses.

Technology Recommendations MAMA Bangladesh

SHOPS has worked closely with MAMA Bangladesh Secretariat Dnet to assess best technology platform options to support Aponjon. This report summarizes the key activities, findings, lessons and recommendations from that effort.

The 8th African Vaccination Week Report

This report documents efforts of South Sudan’s CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) during the 8 th African Vaccination Week (AVW) held in late April 2018. USAID provides funding for the CGPP’s immunization activities in 11 select counties in South Sudan. The brief highlights the implementation of program activities during AVW for the underserved, marginalized and hard-to-reach populations in Akobo County.

January 26, 2026

The Commercial Sector’s Role in Providing Long-acting and Permanent Methods

The report provides information about the use of long-acting and permanent methods (LAPMs) and the role of the commercial sector in their provision.

January 29, 2026

The Expansion of Community-Based Tuberculosis Programming: Critical Program Design Issues for New Partners

ORGANIZATION CORE Group USAID YEAR PUBLISHED 2003 DESCRIPTION Tuberculosis (TB) kills 1.5 million people each year. It is the greatest curable infectious killer worldwide. One-third of the world’s population is infected with the TB bacterium and nearly 9 million people become sick with active TB each year. This document outlines nine project-design challenges most likely to face those working at ...

March 3, 2020

The Household and Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Framework

The purpose of this guide is to assist NGOs, Ministries of Health, and bilateral and multi-lateral organizations in implementing a two and a half day workshop on Household and Community IMCI.

February 24, 2020

The Potential of Private Sector Midwives in Reaching Millennium Development Goals

This paper explores the potential for private-sector midwives to provide services beyond their traditional scope of care during pregnancies and births to address shortcomings in LDCs’ ability to reach MDGs.

October 2, 2025

The Private Health Sector in West Africa: Six Macro-level Assessments

Recognizing that the private health sector represents a key opportunity through which African countries can work to strengthen health indicators, the United States Agency for International Development West Africa Regional Health Office (USAID WA/RHO), asked the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project to carry out macro-level assessments of the private health sector in six focus countries.

February 2, 2026

The Role of Private Provider Networks in Expanding the Supply of RH/FP Services

Identify networks for technical assistance and scale-up; Invite applications for technical assistance; Welcome information about other networks; Continue to build the Network Exchange forum

October 2, 2025

The Role of Social Accountability in Improving Health Outcomes: Overview and Analysis of Selected International NGO Experiences to Advance the Field

This paper presents common themes, challenges, and recommendations to expand and bring this approach to scale in the context of health and development.

August 9, 2017

The roles and influence of grandmothers and men

This review of both published and gray literature has two objectives: (1) to examine the research on the roles and influence of grandmothers and men in family-level nutrition practices across cultures; and (2) to examine community nutrition interventions in which grandmothers and/or men have been involved in order to understand programmatic approaches used and results obtained.

September 23, 2025

Toolkit to Improve Private Provider Contributions to Child Health

In June 2002, the World Bank published a discussion paper titled Working with the Private Sector for Child Health. The paper – developed with technical assistance from the USAID Bureau for Africa, Office of Sustainable Development (AFR/SD) through the Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA) project – lays out a framework for analyzing the contributions of the private sector in child heath. The framework, outlined below, is designed to serve as a basis for assessing the potential of different components of the private sector at country level.

January 27, 2026

Trends in Health Financing and the Private Health Sector in the Middle East and North Africa

Though health data from the region are scarce and outdated, available information on key health indicators shows significant improvements in recent decades.

February 2, 2026

Two Promising Social Accountability Approaches to Improve Health in Malawi

This document summarizes two social accountability approaches that have been applied in Malawi for over a decade, with measurable successes.

March 8, 2019

Understanding the Business Value of Family Planning Services

Presentation: Private Midwives in the Philippines Taking the Future in their Own Hands

October 2, 2025

Unlocking Finance for the Private Health Sector

This brief provides USAID missions and implementing partners with an overview of the challenges around the private health sector accessing finance, definitions of blended and innovative financing, information on the US International Development Finance Corporation, illustrative examples of innovative financing, and case studies on health from multiple regions.

February 2, 2026

Unraveling the Factors Behind the Growth of the Indonesian Family Planning Private Sector

While Indonesia’s private family planning sector expanded in response to several converging factors, the government’s commitment to promoting the private sector as a source of family planning services was clearly prominent among all factors.

October 2, 2025

Updated Program Functionality Matrix for Optimizing Community Health Programs

To support the operationalization of quality CHW program design and implementation, USAID, UNICEF, the Community Health Impact Coalition, and Initiatives Inc. have updated and adapted the Community Health Worker Assessment and Improvement Matrix (CHW AIM) Program Functionality Matrix [12]. This tool can be used to identify design and implementation gaps in both small- and national-scale CHW programs, and close gaps in policy and practice.

September 23, 2025

USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Emergency Application Guidelines

Sector Requirements

October 2, 2025

USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Emergency Application Guidelines (Revised)

Sector Requirements (Revised)

Using the DHS wealth index and World Bank poverty thresholds to examine socio-economic position in the Family Planning Market Analyzer

An important consideration when thinking about the potential roles of the public and private sectors in a family planning market is a women’s ability to pay for products and services from private providers. The FP Market Analyzer allows further exploration of changes by income level using a methodology that combines analyses of absolute wealth with DHS data.

February 2, 2026

Vaccine Toolkit Implementation Guide

This implementation guide outlines factors that promote the successful use of the resource Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities.

October 2, 2025

Vouchers for Health: A Focus on Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services

This primer, intended for policymakers, donors, health care practitioners, and others involved in health care policy making and planning, draws on several overview papers on vouchers programs and demand-side subsidies.

Water, please!

This presentation demonstrates the magnitude of the drinking water quality problem. 

January 26, 2026

West Africa Private Health Sector: Six Macro-Level Assessments

This brief is a summary of the West Africa private health sector assessment conducted by the SHOPS project. The assessment looked at six countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, and Togo.

February 2, 2026

Youth Friendly Pharmacies and Partnerships: The CMS-CELSAM Experience

The Commercial Market Strategies project (CMS) developed a network of youth-friendly pharmacies to provide reproductive health information and contraceptives to youth in Guanajuato, Mexico.

January 29, 2026