The Quality of Care Network in partnership with the World Health Organization is exploring mechanisms for engaging the private sector in delivering maternal and newborn health services with quality. Beginning with scoping exercises in Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria, the exploratory project is documenting the lessons from private sector delivery of quality maternal and newborn health services. The project objectives are to:

1. Analyze the drivers and the current engagement of the private sector to deliver quality maternal and newborn health services in Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria;

2. Identify opportunities for involving the private sector in working within the national health system to deliver quality maternal and newborn health services in Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria; and

3. Propose models for effective engagement of the private sector within the national health system for implementing quality maternal and newborn health services in Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria and other Network countries.

The Ministry of Health, Ghana shared their findings in this first webinar, which will be followed over the coming months by webinars to share the findings from Nigeria and Bangladesh.

This is the fifth webinar in a series on ‘Engaging the private sector for quality maternal, newborn and child health care’, co-hosted by the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the World Health Organization.