SOCIAL FRANCHISING IN CONTEXT OF MARKETING LONG-TERM AND REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTIVES (LARCS) IN UGANDA: ANALYSIS OF PACE SOCIAL FRANCHISE MODEL

Simon Sensalire, Dorothy Balaba Byansi and Zacch Akinyemi
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Simon Sensalire: Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Dorothy Balaba Byansi: Program for Accessible health Communication and Education, Kampala, Uganda
Zacch Akinyemi: Program for Accessible health Communication and Education, Kampala, Uganda

EcoForum, 2015, vol. 4, issue 1, 6

Abstract: Uganda is TFR is among the world’s highest at six children per woman, and contributes to the rising rate of poverty and maternal and infant mortality across the country. A social franchise model was adopted in Uganda to market and scale up contraceptive prevalence through the private sector. In 2008 PACE launched the Women’s Health Project, a core component of their reproductive health strategy to increase access to and demand for affordable, quality long‐term Family Planning (FP) services, through the setup of a network of private healthcare providers, branded as “ProFam” social franchise health facilities. The program expanded and included services aimed to offer and improve reproductive health services, limiting births through increased use of IUDs and implants as well change negative perceptions to FP. Until 2014, this network consisted of 189 private facilities spread out in 56 districts, following a business model of social franchising.

Keywords: Social franchising model; private sector approach; Long-Term and Reversible Contraceptives; PACE; Women of reproductive age group. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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