About the MAQ Initiative

Subcommittees

MAQ Financial Sustainability Subcommittee

The USAID Maximizing Access and Quality (MAQ) Sustainability Working Group meets four times a year to share information about sustainability in health – often reproductive health, but not exclusively. Members represent a variety of organizations: Abt Associates, Banking in Health, Banyon Global, CEDPA, Chemonics, Emerging Markets Group/Deloitte, EngenderHealth, Family Health International, Futures Group, Johns Hopkins University, John Snow, Inc., Management Sciences for Health, Population Council, PSP-One, PSI, and USAID.

Speakers and topics at past meetings have included:

Jack Langenbrunner, World Bank: "Alternative Reimbursement Schemes for Health Care Providers"

Margaret Farrell, USAID: "Graduation from Population Assistance: Process, Strategy, and Experience to Date at USAID"

Lisa Hare, JSI: "Sustainability Assessment Tool: A Qualitative Review of Institutional and Programmatic and Financial Sustainability"

Leslie Flinn and Jeanne Ellis, Emerging Markets Group: "Budgeting and Cash Management for Sustainable Operations"

Benjamin Loevinsohn, World Bank: "Outsourcing Public Sector Services in Health to the Private Sector"

We invite you to join us and share your work at a future meeting. The Sustainability Working Group has a listserv and Web space on the IBP Web site. To join, please contact Sarah Campbell at scampbell@popcouncil.org. If you are already a member of the IBP, see the Group's Web site at http://my.ibpinitiative.org/sustainability/.