Banyan Global is a subcontractor to Abt Associates on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus project. This $150 million project focuses on improving health outcomes through the private sector by strengthening provision of private-sector health information, products, and services; increasing effective public-private engagement to improve public health outcomes; improving the enabling environment for the private sector within the health system at the global, regional, and country level; and surfacing, disseminating, and applying innovative, emerging, and tested private-sector models. Banyan Global is leading the access to finance and business strengthening component of the project. We are supporting health financing and accreditation of private providers, health franchising, non-governmental organization sustainability, and provider networks. Moreover, we are helping to improve the human resources for health through the private sector.

Under SHOPS Plus, Banyan Global works in the following countries:

• Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus, Madagascar
• Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus, Tanzania

Under SHOPS Plus, Banyan Global has also worked in:

• Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus, Senegal
• Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus, Botswana
• Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus, Kenya
• Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus, Nigeria
• Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus, Philippines

For more information on Access to Finance in SHOPS Plus, visit the SHOPS Plus Provider Access to Finance page.