The African Health Markets for Equity (AHME) Impact Evaluation aims to rigorously evaluate the extent to which transforming the business model of franchised healthcare providers and expanding access to demand-side financing generates effective and cost-effective coverage of priority technologies and interventions amongst the poor. The evaluation is a collaborative effort between Innovations for Poverty Action and researchers from multiple institutions, and is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (DFID).
The AHME intervention package will seek to improve efficiency in private health care delivery by reducing both supply-side and demand-side constraints that patients face in accessing high-quality care. Supply-side intervention will include (1) the social franchising of private clinics in order to improve consistency and quality of care and to reduce costs and (2) quality monitoring linked to capital financing in order to help clinics expand and improve clinical services. On the demand side, AHME will provide technical support to the NHIF as it expands its reach to include Q1 and Q2 households and will aim to increase NHIF registration among AHME clinics and other private provider networks (PPNs). In addition, opportunities to improve the operational efficiency of AHME interventions using information and communication technology (ICT) will be explored.
The AHME intervention package will seek to improve efficiency in private health care delivery by reducing both supply-side and demand-side constraints that patients face in accessing high-quality care. Supply-side intervention will include (1) the social franchising of private clinics in order to improve consistency and quality of care and to reduce costs and (2) quality monitoring linked to capital financing in order to help clinics expand and improve clinical services. On the demand side, AHME will provide technical support to the NHIF as it expands its reach to include Q1 and Q2 households and will aim to increase NHIF registration among AHME clinics and other private provider networks (PPNs). In addition, opportunities to improve the operational efficiency of AHME interventions using information and communication technology (ICT) will be explored.