1. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Market Development Approaches Working Group Update April-October 2007 Ben Light MDAWG Leader, Reproduction Health Supplies Coalition

2. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Objectives from Strategic Plan Mobilize public sector and total market resources at country level –To increase by 2009/2015 utilization at country-level of the private sector to secure RH supplies and services –To increase by 2009/15 funding for RH supplies and supply systems at country-level through alternative domestic financing mechanisms (e.g., community health insurance, third-party payers, employers)

3. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Objectives from Strategic Plan Strengthen capacity at country level to ensure and sustain functional RH supply chains across all sectors –By 2009/15, to increase the number of LMI countries and organizations procuring pre- qualified RH supplies –By 2009/15, to increase the number of LMI countries with effective supply chains in the private and other non-public sectors.

4. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Members Between 6 and 12 members regularly meeting in tele-conference every month for last year Realization that many more potential members exist and hence the design of the face-to-face meeting in October in Washington Increase of members will increase both number of strategies for MDA’s and number of personnel to work on them

5. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Achievements Regular members teleconference Revision of workplan in light of RHSC Strategy Early-October three-day WG meeting Manufacturer’s forum Private sector day Working group workplan

6. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Manufacturer’s forum 3 Generic, 1 small R&D company and 2 Big Pharma companies attended Focus on social programmes (Big Pharma) and contributing towards MDGs Recognition as “development partners”

7. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Manufacturer’s forum Dialogue should continue Issues that concern manufacturers: –Procurement mechanisms –Registration processes –Import duties/procedures –Access to reliable data –Market segmentation and targeting –Marketing and market growth

8. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Private sector day Contributions from many groups (Abt Associates, Constella Futures, PSI, DKT, Chemonics, JSI, AED, ICON, PATH, Univ. Research Co., and USAID | PSP-One) Total Market Approaches Sustainable Markets and Capacity Social Marketing and MDAs

9. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Private sector day To appraise some of the MDA initiatives undertaken by partners not presently formally members of the RHSC To explore the role of these initiatives in the overall availability of reproductive health supplies in low-middle income countries To explore the increasing use of generics in a total market approach To establish linkages between public sector supplies and the private sectors contribution to MDAs To determine next steps for increased mutually beneficial collaboration between the NGO/Private contractor sector and the RHCS- MDA

10. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Working group workplan Finished with 7 new workstreams as follows: 1.Development of Market Segmentation Toolkit 2.Development of Indicators to measure market development 3.Targeted Global Advocacy for Market Development Approaches –IMS-Type Data-Base –DHS Modification

11. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Working group workplan 4.Facilitating the availability of quality Generic Supplies (collaboration with SSWG?) 5.Facilitating an enabling environment for the non-public sector to complement the health stewardship role of the State (collaboration with RMAWG?) 6.Cultivating links with Manufacturers –Question of pricing versus choice 7.Demand Creation

12. 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting 24 October, 2007 – Washington RHSC Meeting Next steps Report write up Workstream Planning Membership inclusion Hold next MDA meeting in Africa?