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6 Several Lessons from Developing and Implementing Health-Focused Partnerships
6 Several Lessons from Developing and Implementing Health-Focused Partnerships
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. • ustainable partnerships require private-sector partners to play a bigger role in S joint planning to identify which areas they can support and define an optimal role for both sides of the partnership (Kamene Kimenye)
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BD and PEPFAR decided to partner when they identified an area of convergence in their different organizational objectives and complementary individual strengths that could collectively address a public health issue in Kenya. The Labs for Life partnership focuses on strengthening laboratory systems.
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Kenya had already adopted the Stepwise Laboratory Improvement Process Towards Accreditation (SLIPTA) program, a process for leading labs to accreditation developed by the World Health Organization (WHO)
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Most importantly Labs for Life supported a country-based plan, promoting ownership of the partnership within the country. ENGAGING AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL TO CATALYZE PARTNERSHIPS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL Mozammil Siddiqui from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Kevin Etter of the United Parcel Service (UPS)
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The first project, known as the Strategic Training Executive Programme, focused on supply chain leadership. Many target countries lacked professional supply chain management.
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DISCUSSION After brief presentations on these partnerships, Boufford asked the panelists if the announcement of the SDGs has altered their priorities in their respective partnerships. Gadde affirmed that the SDGs have changed her thinking for the future potential of BD's partnerships.
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Siddiqui noted that funding for Gavi's Strategic Training Executive Programme is a combination of in-kind resources from UPS, Gavi, PATH, and UNICEF. For the drone network project, the operating cost is paid by the government of Rwanda.
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Boufford asked Etter whether UPS has considered taking the supply chain management training a step further to bolster career development. Etter affirmed their interest in career development and pointed to its East African Community regional health center of excellence.
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Maureen Kamene Kimenye of Kenya's Ministry of Health described the ministry's TIBU partnership with Safaricom. TIBU, a program that delivers health care and manages TB patients in Kenya, was developed
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In addition to the high disease burden, socioeconomic or geographical factors complicate the health system's ability to track patients. Kamene Kimenye noted several challenges in data collection and treatment for TB patients in Kenya that predated the TIBU partnership: paper-based systems for data collection with repeated data entry and error possibilities; paper-based financial systems with delays in disbursement and feedback of missing information; inadequate information in the community of TB, leprosy, and lung disease; delays in patient support reimbursements; expensive communication systems; vertical systems; and little to no electric automation or integration across systems.
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The Honorable Ahmed Sheikh Mohamed of Kenya's Mandera County Health Section described another health-focused partnership in Kenya: The 6 County Initiative, a multistakeholder partnership led by the United Nations (UN) Population Fund.
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Within the SDGs, Swanepoel noted that the Future Africa Institute focuses on agricultural support and improvement, as all 17 goals are dependent on a thriving agricultural system, including Goal 3, centered on improving health and well-being. Genders introduced Project Isizwe and its overarching mission to provide free Wi-Fi.
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DISCUSSION Boufford asked Makai to elaborate on Safaricom's decision making and established processes for the transition from pro bono engagement to a sustainable business model. Makai stated that with most of the company's products there are two levels of transition.
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MOVING FORWARD In concluding the workshop series, Boufford and Gadde noted that a number of approaches, considerations, and lessons learned for engaging the private sector and developing partnerships to advance health and the SDGs had been presented. In moving forward in their individual engagement and approaches to global health the SDGs agenda, they asked the participants to reflect on the workshop content and consider the following three questions.
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2016a. Guide for the Stepwise Laboratory Improvement Process Towards Accreditation (SLIPTA)
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