AID requirements contract no. DPE-3056-Q-00-1041-00 to Deloitte & Touche for technical assistance to increase developing country resources for family planning

A U.S. contractor (Deloitte & Touche -- DT) will help USAID Missions and Bureaus to develop an integrated series of interventions in the areas of (1) innovative investments, (2) private health care providers, and (3) employer- provided services. Under the innovative investments component, DT will promote local private sector production of contraceptives. DT will, inter alia, conduct feasibility and marketing studies, assess trade barriers and regulatory climates, and transact financial transfers that can generate local currencies for use in a private sector FP project. Such transactions could include favorable debt conversions, unblocking of multinational corporate funds that could be donated to an FP project, and the provision of mixed credits through the Export Import Bank to private U.S. companies for FP investments. DT will also help arrange subsidiary financing for private contraceptive production, but it is not expected that A.I.D. will finance a full-scale local production operation. DT will encourage and assist private health care providers (doctors, nurses) and financiers (insurance companies, HMO"s) include FP in their services, including assistance in privatizing services. DT will work through medical and professional associations to increase awareness of the potential profitability of FP services, and will provide TA to providers and, where appropriate, some venture capital and in-country start-up funding for privatization efforts. Finally, DT will help employers -- including multinational corporations, labor unions, and similar organizations -- to implement FP services. DT will first target critical sectors and industries, and then provide targeted entities with training, TA, and, where needed, some start-up funding.