Market Solutions

Over one third of people around the world don’t have access to basic, affordable healthcare and governments are unable to single-handedly meet the needs of their population. Significant untapped potential to deliver health products, services and information exists within the private sector Business can be one the world’s greatest drivers of positive impact, as demonstrated by the explosion of social enterprises and impact investors emerging daily around the world. But in many countries, economic, financial, and regulatory barriers prevent new companies and business from developing or applying their health care solutions.

Case Studies

Jalin

Each year, thousands of women still die from childbirth and pregnancy complications in Indonesia. USAID’s Jalin project aimed to reduce maternal and newborn mortality by developing 26 co-created and context-specific interventions to boost antenatal and birthing care. Jalin worked closely with a variety of stakeholders in national and sub-national government entities, the private sector, and healthcare providers to develop 26 local solutions. Solutions included a floating ambulance service or free counselling and information on accessing antenatal care for women at supermarkets. A partnership with a U.S. fashion company also helped expand maternal and newborn health in the workplace in selected factories. The program supported more than 5,600 women to give birth, resuscitated 170 newborns who were not breathing at birth, and provided nearly 3,700 infants with postnatal care.

Promote: Women in the Economy (WIE)

For decades, women in Afghanistan have faced severe gender inequities, including exclusion from the workforce and limited access to maternal healthcare. To foster gender equality and women’s participation in the workplace, USAID’s WIE project supported Afghan women with industry specific business skills. The project supported 25 home-based midwife hubs to teach women basic business skills, ensuring their midwifery was sustainable. WIE also partnered with the Afghanistan Medical Council to officially accredit female doctors and dentists, who were previously unlicensed.

Stronger relationships between public and private entities and engagement with other industries such as transportation, agriculture, and education, are needed to provide the world’s most vulnerable with access to equitable healthcare. Our Market Solutions practice develops new partnerships, investments, and programs to enable companies and health services to grow. We envision quality healthcare becoming a driver of economic growth and community wellness by supporting governments and civil society to leverage private sector actors and market dynamics.

We work with start-ups, small businesses, governments, local and multinational corporations, banks and investors to craft solutions that leverage market forces and incentives and empower the private sector.

We specialise in analysing and understanding market systems, developing and strengthening partnerships and creating innovative finance models. Health market system analysis. DAI has well-honed tools, skills, and in-country experience around the world to analyse market dynamics, failures, and successes to inform systemic change.

Applying total market approaches: We help governments, donors, businesses, and development partners apply a nuanced understanding of market dynamics to identify opportunities in the health and adjacent sectors to improve coordination, efficiency, quality, and impact.
Improving stewardship and regulation. We help governments become effective stewards and regulators of increased private sector participation in the health system in areas such as service delivery, supply chains, and innovation.
Improving private sector performance and integration: Our teams apply best practices and adaptive management approaches to improve the quality of services, the reach of products and programs, business viability and market and system linkages for private sector health actors in service delivery, supply chains, and other areas of the heath system.
Innovative Finance: DAI brings decades of experience in structuring and advising innovative finance deals to address development challenges. We partner with development finance institutions, leverage, and advise private capital and broker deals through our own investments.
Health enterprise investment and partnerships. DAI creates bespoke 1-2-1 partnerships with local and international enterprises through equity investments, project financing, and technical assistance to ensure the next generation of innovators can impact health systems around the world.

Our Experts

Stephen Rahaim

Senior Global Practice Leader, Global Health Market Solutions

Stephen Rahaim is a health system, private sector engagement, and social innovation specialist with 20 years of experience working to strengthen health systems in emerging and developing markets.

Worldwide—INVEST

INVEST is a flexible, efficient buy-in mechanism that helps the U.S. Agency for International Development mobilize private capital to achieve its goals.

Indonesia—Jalin

The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Jalin program assisted the Indonesian government as it promoted solutions for preventing maternal and newborn deaths and extending health services.

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