FAO Strategy for Private Sector Engagement, 2021-2025

2021 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olushayo Olu ◽  
Pamela Drameh-Avognon ◽  
Emil Asamoah-Odei ◽  
Francis Kasolo ◽  
Tomas Valdez ◽  
...  

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2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Luan Nguyen Quang Vo ◽  
Andrew James Codlin ◽  
Huy Ba Huynh ◽  
Thuy Doan To Mai ◽  
Rachel Jeanette Forse ◽  
...  

Under-detection and -reporting in the private sector constitute a major barrier in Viet Nam’s fight to end tuberculosis (TB). Effective private-sector engagement requires innovative approaches. We established an intermediary agency that incentivized private providers in two districts of Ho Chi Minh City to refer persons with presumptive TB and share data of unreported TB treatment from July 2017 to March 2019. We subsidized chest x-ray screening and Xpert MTB/RIF testing, and supported test logistics, recording, and reporting. Among 393 participating private providers, 32.1% (126/393) referred at least one symptomatic person, and 3.6% (14/393) reported TB patients treated in their practice. In total, the study identified 1203 people with TB through private provider engagement. Of these, 7.6% (91/1203) were referred for treatment in government facilities. The referrals led to a post-intervention increase of +8.5% in All Forms TB notifications in the intervention districts. The remaining 92.4% (1112/1203) of identified people with TB elected private-sector treatment and were not notified to the NTP. Had this private TB treatment been included in official notifications, the increase in All Forms TB notifications would have been +68.3%. Our evaluation showed that an intermediary agency model can potentially engage private providers in Viet Nam to notify many people with TB who are not being captured by the current system. This could have a substantial impact on transparency into disease burden and contribute significantly to the progress towards ending TB.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 11126
Author(s):  
Daniel Lopez Velarde ◽  
Irene Henriques ◽  
Luli Pesqueira

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIMOTHY LAING ◽  
LUCA TASCHINI ◽  
CHARLES PALMER

SUMMARYReducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) has emerged as a potentially important component of the global policy mix to mitigate climate change. Against a background of increasing engagement between private sector entities and conservation organizations, private sector investment has emerged in REDD+. Despite slow developments at the international scale, there continues to be private sector interest in REDD+ and continued voluntary investments in REDD+ projects and initiatives. In order to better understand possible models for private sector engagement in REDD+, this study analysed the motivation of private sector stakeholders to engage in REDD+, the perception of the potential of REDD+, the critical obstacles to making REDD+ functional and how actors perceive themselves as part of future REDD+ scenarios. Based on interviews and a workshop with private sector actors, this study found that few expect a regulatory market for REDD+ to emerge and that credits from the voluntary market have to be tailored to specific needs. As a carbon offset, REDD+ provides insufficient motivation for investment, particularly if cheaper alternatives exist. Co-benefits such as biodiversity conservation and community development are more important when traditional corporate social responsibility motivations play a role. Project scale remains important not only for the fact that smaller projects are viewed as offering more visible benefits to stakeholders but also as a means of having more control over risks on the ground, posing a challenge for the design of jurisdictional REDD+. Moving towards supply chains that are free from deforestation offers an opportunity to tackle commodity-driven deforestation. While questions remain about how such an approach might be integrated into REDD+, it could help address a perceived gap between private sector understanding of the values of REDD+ and the risks associated with these values not arising – termed here as a ‘missing middle’.


PLoS Medicine ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. e1001842 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Wells ◽  
Mukund Uplekar ◽  
Madhukar Pai

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