Overview: Workshop on Government contracting for improved child survival |
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The aim is to engage leading experts and practitioners from different states in India to discuss and propose how government contracting can improve child survival.
With about 15 participants, this will be a one-day session conduced at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, from 10 AM to 4 PM, on November 19th, 2009. There are currently many evolving initiatives of contracting in the healthcare sector in India. There are also many constraints to effective outcomes and some measures taken to address these constraints.
Background: The five focus states of NIPI, together constitute 40 percent of India’s population and contribute to almost 60 percent of child deaths in the country (India accounts for 2.1/9.7 million child deaths globally). In order to be able to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 of reducing child mortality by 2/3 by 2015, India needs to examine new approaches and strategies at a much heightened pace than what has been done in the last couple of decades (there has been a 34 percent overall decline in child deaths in India, during the period 1990-2006, though with huge interstate disparities).
Globally, governments contracting private providers for services are a key to quick and effective roll out of large public projects. In the South Asia region, India attracted the highest private investment, much ahead of other developing countries and even higher than China. Formalized mechanisms for managing government contracted projects are available but limited to sectors such as infrastructure, transport, telecom, water and energy, where these investments are deployed. Expertise exists within India to design and manage such projects. The objective with the session is to engage leading experts in government contracting and people with expertise in managing public-private partnerships in health care. The outcome is a plan for government contracting to improve child survival.
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