PSPH – Private Sector Partnerships for Health

• Private sector businesses engaged in the Somali health sector
• 150,000 Somalis through health financing interventions 
• 500,000 patients visited per month through service delivery network interventions
• Ministry of Health of Somalia

1. Private providers develop, test, and assess pro-poor healthcare financing mechanisms for sustainability and scalability; and
2. Organized private service providers deliver quality and inclusive health services across the country, including areas of difficult access.

Expected results:  

1. Innovative formal and informal healthcare financing mechanisms that benefit the poor are operating in the market and demonstrate commercial viability, effectiveness, and scalability.
2. Organized private sector healthcare service provider associations and networks are operating in the market and demonstrate commercial viability, effectiveness, and scalability. 

Results from previous phases:   PSPH builds on experience of the Swiss funded Piloting Private Healthcare Networks in Somalia programme in 2017. The objective of the pilot was to test the market viability of a private for-profit health provider network (Caafinet) as a means to expand access to quality and affordable healthcare for Somalis. Caafinet’s success demonstrated that the commercial private sector can contribute beneficially to health systems strengthening and reaching universal health coverage. During the opening phase a gender and market health assessment have been elaborated which informed the tender documents. During the planning phase additional studies and the Prodoc was finalised.

Main Contract Partner: CARDNO

Sub-contractors: STPH and SORDI

World Bank “Damal Caafimad” project, financed through IDA funds (75 Mio USD) and GFF funds (25 Mio USD)

PSPH complements other SDC engagements in the health sector, in particular UNFPA, CHASP and in the region Swiss Capacity Building Facility.