Committed to
Sustainable
Progress
Open Development is a women-owned, small business committed to fostering inclusive, sustainable development.
We support our partners to achieve their vision for a better and more sustainable future for all.
With global expertise in the health and social sectors, we provide consulting services to address the systemic barriers that hinder meaningful reform.
Our Services
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Health Policy & Financing
Fostering policy and financing solutions that enable countries to achieve universal health coverage and sustain health achievements into the future.
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Health & Social Workforce
Optimizing and sustaining the health and social workforce needed to achieve universal health coverage and well-being for all.
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Results-Oriented Financing
Designing innovative financing agreements between local partners and donors that incentivize results and build local capacity while mitigating risk.
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Data Analytics
Leveraging data analytics for decision-making to improve the equitable distribution and efficient use of health and other social sector investments.
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Innovative Service Delivery
Disrupting traditional service delivery models to develop more sustainable, inclusive and person-centered strategies for achieving better health.
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Organizational Capacity Assessments
Conducting organizational assessments to improve leadership, coordination, communication, and management through actionable, evidence-based recommendations.
Where We Work
We have experience working in more than 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
Notable Projects
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Funded by PEPFAR and USAID, the Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project supports countries to control the HIV epidemic through technical assistance and direct service delivery.
In collaboration with FHI360, Open Development assists PEPFAR programs in Lesotho, Namibia, and Tanzania through the USAID EpiC Project.
In Lesotho and Namibia, Open Development has embedded senior advisors within Ministries of Health who work closely with the government, PEPFAR, the Global Fund, and other partners to plan for the workforce needed to sustain HIV services within the context of the universal health coverage agenda.
In Tanzania, Open Development is working with local partner, the Benjamin Mkapa Foundation, to support implementation research on how PEPFAR and the Government of Tanzania can optimize staffing models and approaches.
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In collaboration with John Snow, Inc (JSI), Open Development is part of the USAID TIFA Project—a $300 million cooperative agreement that will serve as a key component of the USAID Global Accelerator to End Tuberculosis. The overarching goal for TIFA is to strengthen and sustain country ownership and accountability by:
supporting national tuberculosis (TB) programs and local governments to effectively implement national TB strategic plans
empowering local governments to become more self-reliant
advocating for additional domestic resources for TB at all levels of local governments
Open Development provides health financing expertise to support the design and implementation of the Tuberculosis Commitment Grants (TCGs) and grantees’ efforts toward sustaining the activities beyond the life of the grant.
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The Health Systems for Tuberculosis (HS4TB) project supports countries to end TB by building the capacity of health leaders and managers to increase domestic financing for and use TB resources effectively.
Under the USAID HS4TB Project, and in collaboration with Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Open Development applies systems thinking to transform the way we see and understand health financing and governance systems for TB in Ethiopia and Bangladesh.
In Ethiopia, HS4TB’s embedded advisors within the Ministry of Health are supporting the development of a strategy to finance free (‘exempted’) health services and implementation of a national domestic resource mobilization roadmap to co-finance and sustain investments in TB using locally generated resources.
In Bangladesh, HS4TB is supporting the government to identify a pathway for domestically funded competitive contracting by analyzing the impediments of legal, operational, political, and regulatory barriers. Finding solutions to overcome these barriers and identifying a pathway for domestically funded competitive outsourcing and social contracting is also a part of our support.
In addition, Open Development is leading the development of a global Sustainability Index for Tuberculosis, co-created with USAID and country collaborators.
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Open Development is a member of the consortium of partners, led by Chemonics International, that implements the USAID Senegal health systems strengthening flagship project. We serve as the lead partner for health financing, including staffing two local senior health financing advisors to the Ministry of Health and the Agency for Universal Health Coverage.
Open Development also is part of a USAID-supported Urban Health Project led by PATH to address health disparities and intra-urban inequities in Dakar, Senegal. In collaboration with district authorities and the consortium, we advise on the design of innovative and performance-based grants to districts that promote self-reliance.
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Announced in October 2022, PROPEL Health is a USAID-funded, five-year, $100 million project led by Palladium. Open Development is a project partner with a focus on sustainability planning, capacity development, and building local partnerships to include direct financing agreements between host governments/local partners and development partners.
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In collaboration with Chemonics International and its consortium partners, Open Development provided assistance to USAID missions and central programs to advance country-led human resources for health strategies, with a focus on sustainability. Under the USAID HRH2030 Program, and in partnership with PEPFAR and the Global Fund, Open Development engaged in planning for the sustainability of hundreds of millions of US dollars in donor investments in the health workforce across Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Philippines, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In partnership with the President’s Malaria Initiative, Open Development conducted organizational capacity assessments of national malaria control programs in the Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Niger, and Togo, to strengthen the capacity of these countries to manage domestic and donor resources more effectively.
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With support from a Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge Seed Grant, Open Development partnered with D-tree International, Results for Development, and local stakeholders in Liberia to co-design, build, and refine an innovative incentive mechanism for private health care providers to deliver patient-centered, quality care, starting with pregnant women and their newborns.
The program leverages technology (smartphones, near field communication, and mobile banking) to align financing for services and provider compliance with a country’s clinical guidelines and allows governments to engage the private sector in strategic purchasing without investing in costly, cumbersome traditional health payment and insurance systems. At the same time, it also empowers women by expanding access and choice regarding where to seek quality care.
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