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Empowering through Health Protection: MAHP Initiative Overview

Freedom from Hunger innovates to help the poor with self-help efforts. The Credit with Education Microfinance and Health Protection (MAHP) initiative enhances microfinance with health services to aid the very poor. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded this $6 million, 4-year project from January 2006 to December 2009, partnering with five MFIs across five countries and three continents. MAHP introduces health protection services, including emergency health loans, health education, and affordable drug distribution. Bandhan, CARD, CRECER, PADME, and RCPB offer diverse health services along with financial support. The initiative focuses on developing health protection service packages, management tools, and research to support the institutions and clients. MAHP aims to provide evidence of the impacts of integrated health services through rigorous research. Challenges include balancing core products, behavior change education, and sustainable cost coverage. This innovative approach bridges microfinance and health, aiming to empower the chronically hungry poor.

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Empowering through Health Protection: MAHP Initiative Overview

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  1. Freedom from Hunger creates and delivers innovations that support the self-help efforts of the chronically hungry poor.

  2. Credit with Education

  3. Microfinance and Health Protection (“MAHP”) initiative INNOVATION Health protection services to improve the commercial viability of microfinance for the very poor

  4. Overview of MAHP • Microfinance and Health Protection initiative (MAHP) • Adds health protection services to microfinance services • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • $6 million • 4 years: January 2006 through December 2009 • Five MFI partners, five countries, three continents • Bandhan, CARD, CRECER, PADME, RCPB

  5. What is “health protection”?

  6. What is “health protection”?

  7. MAHP Objectives • INNOVATIONS—Develop and test the delivery of a packages of market-driven and context-specific health protection service options with each participating institution; • MANAGEMENT TOOLS—Design and test new management and communications tools to help participating institutions overcome the challenges of offering integrated services, particularly related to health; • RESEARCH—Provide solid evidence of the impacts of such services on institutional as well as client performance through carefully controlled research.

  8. Bandhan • Emergency health loans • Health education • Access to health products

  9. CARD • Health loans (PhilHealth premium) • Health insurance enrolment (PhilHealth) • Health education (dengue, consumer) • Preferred provider network (discounts) • Affordable drug distribution

  10. CRECER • Linkages to providers (mobile doctors) • Collective health loan • Individual health loan • Health education (consumer, Healthy Habits)

  11. PADME • Credit with Education • Malaria, childhood illness, HIV/AIDS • Health product distribution (bed nets, ORS) • Prepaid health feasibility study

  12. RCPB • Health savings • Health loans • Solidarity fund • Health education (consumer)

  13. MAHP Innovation PackagesSUMMARY

  14. Activities to Date • Market research • Product development • Management tools • Baseline research

  15. Upcoming Activities • Analysis and consolidation of development process, lessons learned • Quality of care • Cost coverage and sustainability • Documentation of impact evaluation results • Sharing with other MFIs

  16. Challenges and Lessons So Far • Intersection of microfinance and health— technical expertise, “language”, existing experiments and examples • Balancing core products with “door openers” and income-generating products • Linkages versus direct service provision • Persistent value of behavior change education • Microinsurance

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