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Doing it Big or Small: Health and Microfinance

at Your Level

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In a nutshell, what is health and microfinance?

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A few examples…

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Light Touch: Fewer health products and services

Heavy Touch: More health products and services

Small Scale:Reaching fewer

• Health education to some• Infrequent access to organized health brigades for some; or, health financing for those who qualify• Possibly: Rural, grassroots, harder-to-reach populations

• Health education to all• Health financing access for all• Linkages to health providers for many• Possibly: Rural, grassroots, harder-to-reach populations

Large Scale:Reaching more

• Health education to all• Infrequent access to organized health brigades for some; or, health financing for those who qualify•Possibly: Urban, peri-urban and rural populations; mixed group in regards to poverty status

• Health education to all• Health financing access for all• Linkages to health providers for many• Possibly: Urban, peri-urban and rural populations; mixed group in regards to poverty status

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Small Scale, Light Touch

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Small Scale, Heavy Touch

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Large Scale, Light Touch

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Large Scale, Heavy Touch

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Sounds interesting, now what?

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Health and Microfinance to Fit your Context

KEY CONSIDERATIONS

Client needInstitutional capacityBuy-inMission relevance and goalsAvailable financial resources and long term

sustainability

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Designing a Health and Microfinance ProgramConduct market research/ needs assessment

Clients StaffSecondary research

Conduct a landscape analysis Existing community resources Potential partnerships

Create an action plan Goals and objectives; Timeline; Budget; Work plan Champion/ Staff support/ Management buy-in Pilot area defined Monitoring

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And now for a few more

examples…