Health Sector

Leveraging the Power of Human Resource Information Systems to Enhance Nigeria's Health Workforce

The Health Workforce Management Activity is advancing innovations to help Nigeria address its health system challenges.

Health Sector

Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery Education in Nigeria by Partnering to Revise and Roll Out the National Nursing and Midwifery Curricula

Banyan Global is working in Nigeria to improve maternal child health outcomes as the prime recipient of the $19-million USAID/Nigeria Health Workforce Management (HWM) Activity.

Health Sector

Closing the Gaps: Reaching Every Ward with Skilled Birth Attendants in Nigeria

Banyan Global is working in Nigeria to support this effort and address the human resources for health (HRH) crisis more broadly. We are leading the USAID Health Workforce Management (HWM) Activity.

Health Sector · Economic Growth · Enterprise Development

Alive and Well: Building Sustainable Business Training for the Health Sector

Banyan Global is a subcontractor on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus project that seeks to leverage the full potential of the private sector to strengthen and expand the provision of health services to underserved populations. Banyan Global leads access to finance (A2F) and business strengthening programming on SHOPS Plus, supporting the private sector to address the business constraints to offering and expanding quality health services.

Health Sector · Economic Growth · Enterprise Development

Going the Distance: Innovative Health Product Financing and Business Strengthening to Reach the Last Mile in Tanzania

For Tanzania’s rural and urban poor, Accredited Drug Dispensing Outlets (ADDOs) are often the first entry point to the health system. Many ADDOs struggle to accumulate sufficient working capital, particularly rural facilities that are challenged to replenish inventory during the rainy season. Banyan Global, working under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus project, conducted a business needs assessment and developed an ADDO strengthening strategy, which includes tailored business training and coaching and the introduction of digital inventory management and financial record-keeping systems.

Health Sector · Economic Growth · Enterprise Development · Empowering Communities

Digital Solutions to Development: Using WhatsApp to Train Women Health Business Owners during the COVID-19 Lockdown

In February 2020, Banyan Global conducted a gender analysis focused on the constraints affecting women owners and managers of health businesses in Tanzania as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector Plus (SHOPS Plus) project. As a subcontractor to Abt Associates, Banyan Global’s role on SHOPS Plus is to support the financial success of private health businesses; the findings from the gender analysis were used to inform a training that would address major constraints affecting women-owned health businesses.