Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health)
Description
As a collaboration between multi-sector partners, including the private sector, NGOs, donors, academia, and Ministries of Health (MoHs), the Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health) addresses the root causes of sub-optimal health services at the community level. Working with countries that have a bold vision for their community health systems, the partnership provides a menu of support to MoHs to strengthen management and leadership capacity. Through the AMP Health platform, partners actively problem-solve a range of real-time community health systems challenges and collaborate with local and global experts bringing together cross-sector perspectives and implementing solutions.
The specific Menu of Support that AMP Health offers to the MoH teams consists of six elements:1. Placement of Management Partners (MP) to provide on-the-job application of private sector management tools to real time problems. MPs are mid-career professionals with experience in the private sector and/or health care that are embedded within ministries of health, most often in community health units. 2. On-line training and education for real-time support and problem solving across a range of leadership and management and community health subject areas. Virtual tools and forums will allow AMP Health countries to share and interact with other practitioners interested in community health issues and the challenges of leadership and management in ministries of health.3. Access to a network of mentors. The mentor network, which will be tailored to needs and challenges of the ministry of health, will consist of proven and experienced country-based leaders who share an interest in improving health care systems and who can advise the ministry of health on innovative ways of leading and managing community health programs. The mentor network will consist of a both private sector and former senior ministry of health officials. 4. Twice yearly “Leadership Lab” convenings among the AMP Health MoH and MP teams to learn about leadership and management skills in a focused manner. These 3 day convenings will include facilitated leadership exercises, Harvard Business School-style case studies focused on leadership and management for health, and sharing and collaboration across AMP Health countries. We anticipate these Leadership Labs to also be an opportunity to track the MoH individuals’ progress as it relates to improved leadership and management skills development. 5. Regular convenings with MoH peers from other countries and global thought leaders to share experiences in community health program management and delivery. AMP Health will use these convenings, in part, as a venue to shine a light on the important gaps in good management in MoH, and identify tangible ways that AMP Health countries can address these gaps and help other countries improve their own management capacity. This focus on South-South teaching and learning is an important aspect of AMP Health’s strategy. 6. Targeted technical support. AMP Health will also provide demand-driven support to the MoH team as needs arise during the partnership, for example by providing and connecting the team to planning and strategy tools, consulting services, and relevant analytics.
At its core, AMP Health is about capacity building (see "Implementation" components above). Tapping into AMP Health partner resources and the MoH leadership with whom we work, AMP Health provides exposure of the importance of building management skills of mid-level managers in MoHs as well as effective community health models and systems. We will share these challenges, successes, and lessons-learned via the AMP Health network (i.e. Leadership Labs, regular convenings) and externally through high-profile roundtable and panel discussions, op-ed pieces and case studies, and wide dissemination of AMP Health reports. A complete knowledge management system (tied directly to a monitoring and evaluation program) is being developed with a focus on:1. Leadership and Management driven by the needs of our MoH and MP participants. Programming will be grounded in the priorities and challenges arising from their work and focused on building management and leadership capacity to drive impact on CHW systems in both the MoH team and Management Partners. The focus will include developing and sharing best practices around Systems, Teams, and Self: a) Systems - Drive systems change in complex environments, b) Team - Lead and manage by inspiring and elevating teams, and c) Self - Evolve personally to meet the needs of their systems and teams. This programming draws heavily from resources and best practices of our corporate partners.2. Effectiveness of national community health units. Best practices in effective community health systems vary from country to country and region to region. AMP Health, through our network of countries and partners, will be an effective platform for documenting and sharing these best practices in community health. Leveraging USAID's recently launched "Community Health Framework", AMP Health will begin collecting and disseminating effective community health models both internally across AMP Health partners and countries, but also externally.
The program is being implemented by the Aspen Institute, an organization with significant experience in capacity-building programs (for example, the Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health). This leadership team provides oversight and day-to-day management of all aspects of programming at both global and country-levels. Members of the Partnership Board provide strategic guidance on major programmatic and financial decisions including country expansion, program strategy, new partnerships, and knowledge capture and dissemination. At the country-level, AMP Health adds capacity to MoHs directly by placing top-tier professionals (“Management Partners”) with private sector and management experience to work in close partnership with MoH staff on pre-identified, high priority community health projects. AMP Health works with the Director and Community Health teams over a period of 2-5 years, with clearly defined project deliverables and measures of success.
Funding Partners (to date): The Aspen Institute, USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GSK (GlaxoSmithKline), Merck, Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, and the MDG Health Alliance.
In-Kind/Thought Partners/Advisory Network (to date): Ministries of Health (see countries below), Partners in Health (University of Global Health Equity), Living Goods, Last Mile Health, UNICEF, McCann Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Novartis, and Novo Nordisk.
Note, we are in the early stages of expansion so expect partnership to grow.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
5.1
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.1.1
Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‑discrimination on the basis of sex
5.2
5.2.1
Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age
5.2.2
Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence
5.3
5.3.1
Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
5.3.2
Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age
5.4
Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
5.4.1
Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location
5.5
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
5.5.1
Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments
5.5.2
Proportion of women in managerial positions
5.6
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
5.6.1
Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
5.6.2
Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education
5.a
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
5.a.1
(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
5.a.2
Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control
5.b
5.b.1
Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex
5.c
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
5.c.1
Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment
Goal 17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
17.1
Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.1.1
17.1.2
17.2
Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
17.2.1
17.3
Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.1
Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.2
17.4
Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.4.1
17.5
Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
17.5.1
Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries
17.6
Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.6.1
Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
17.7
Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.7.1
Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies
17.8
Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
17.8.1
17.9
Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
17.9.1
Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries
17.10
Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.10.1
17.11
Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.11.1
Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports
17.12
Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
17.12.1
Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States
17.13
Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.13.1
17.14
Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.14.1
17.15
Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
17.15.1
17.16
Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.16.1
Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
17.17
Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
17.17.1
Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure
17.18
By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.18.1
Statistical capacity indicators
17.18.2
17.18.3
Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding
17.19
By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries
17.19.1
17.19.2
Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration
Goal 3
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
3.1
3.1.1
Maternal mortality ratio
3.1.2
Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel
3.2
3.2.1
Under-five mortality rate
3.2.2
Neonatal mortality rate
3.3
By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases
3.3.1
Number of new HIV infections per 1,000 uninfected population, by sex, age and key populations
3.3.2
Tuberculosis incidence per 100,000 population
3.3.3
Malaria incidence per 1,000 population
3.3.4
Hepatitis B incidence per 100,000 population
3.3.5
Number of people requiring interventions against neglected tropical diseases
3.4
3.4.1
Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease
3.4.2
Suicide mortality rate
3.5
Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol
3.5.1
Coverage of treatment interventions (pharmacological, psychosocial and rehabilitation and aftercare services) for substance use disorders
3.5.2
Alcohol per capita consumption (aged 15 years and older) within a calendar year in litres of pure alcohol
3.6
3.6.1
Death rate due to road traffic injuries
3.7
By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes
3.7.1
Proportion of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49 years) who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods
3.7.2
Adolescent birth rate (aged 10-14 years; aged 15-19 years) per 1,000 women in that age group
3.8
Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
3.8.1
Coverage of essential health services
3.8.2
Proportion of population with large household expenditures on health as a share of total household expenditure or income
3.9
3.9.1
Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution
3.9.2
Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (exposure to unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for All (WASH) services)
3.9.3
Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning
3.a
3.a.1
Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older
3.b
Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all
3.b.1
Proportion of the target population covered by all vaccines included in their national programme
3.b.2
3.b.3
Proportion of health facilities that have a core set of relevant essential medicines available and affordable on a sustainable basis
3.c
3.c.1
Health worker density and distribution
3.d
Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks
3.d.1
International Health Regulations (IHR) capacity and health emergency preparedness
3.d.2
Percentage of bloodstream infections due to selected antimicrobial-resistant organisms
SDG 14 targets covered
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Deliverables & Timeline
AMP Health launched in 8-10 countries
25-50% additional investment in CHWs in AMP Health countries (compared to projected based on prior historical trends)
25-50% additional CHWs trained and/or deployed in AMP Health countries (compared to projected based on prior historical trends)
75% of AMP Health MPs continue to work in global health
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Michael Park, Director, Strategy and Operations