Overview

The magnitude and complexity of public health problems in the world today create challenges for leaders working to respond to crisis and plan for the future. For 40 years, Futures Group, the global health consulting rm, has created lasting solutions to some of the most pressing public health challenges facing nations. Futures Group helps to protect and promote peoples well-being around the world. We predict the trends that will affect a countrys stability and growth. We see connections between disparate data points that others miss allowing us to uncover the real barriers to well-being and discover innovative solutions for a better world. We forge on-the-ground partnerships with all the necessary stakeholders needed to ensure lasting change for better communities and a better world. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Futures Group has worked in more than 100 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe on more than 600 projects. We are currently implementing projects in over 35 countries with more than 450 staff worldwide.

Program Areas
population and family planning sexual and reproductive health maternal and child health hiv and aids infectious diseases gender poverty and equity

Futures Group Service Overview

Service Policy Development Description Applications

Facilitating the achievement of important public Resource allocation health and social development goals, Safeguarding human rights including developing new policies, Improving access to services reforming existing policies, or eliminating policies that serve as barriers to effective programs. Strengthening in-country capacity to participate in the policymaking process, fostering the sustainability of policies and programs, and ensuring the accountability of authorizing agencies. Facilitating evidence-based policy and program decisionmaking through appropriate research and evaluation methodologies. Ensuring that programs are on track and delivering results. Designing software applications and computer models to support effective policymaking, to analyze existing information, and to help policymakers determine the impact of specic programs.

Technical Services
policy and advocacy research + strategic information health markets and private sector engagement modeling and economic analysis health informatics health systems strengthening strategic consulting program management

Social advocacy

Capacity building Reproductive and maternal health Greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS Data analysis Modeling and forecasting Policy and program planning SPECTRUM suite Workplace Policy Builder AIDS Impact Model (AIM) Goals Model Creating sustainable markets Improving quality of health commodities

Strategic Information

Computer-based modeling

Using marketing principles to sell Social marketing ideas, attitudes, and behaviors, and to stimulating commercial market growth for health products and services.

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Working with Futures Group:

Futures Group has managed large and complex international health and development projects for a range of major development players, achieving signicant results on the ground. We work with international and national aid agencies and development banks, United Nations agencies and other multilateral organizations, foundations and nonprot organizations, and private companies.

Select Futures Projects

Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development
Health Policy Project (HPP)

Strengthening developing country national and subnational policy, advocacy, and governance for strategic, equitable, and sustainable health programming. Building capacity of governments and other in-country partners to address key health issues family planning/ reproductive health, HIV, and maternal healthand promoting health systems strengthening and program integration. Working in country and with regional programs across Africa, Asia and the Near East, Europe and Eurasia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Fostering public-private partnerships to expand access to affordable, quality reproductive, maternal and child health services in rural areas and urban slums. Building the capacity of local organizations to meet the needs of their communities. Using research to rene and improve program approaches. Promoting cost-effective and efcient approaches in data collection, monitoring and evaluation, health, and nutrition services to improve health and well-being. Strengthening monitoring and evaluation functions and systems, and building institutional capabilities.

Innovations in Family Planning Services - II Technical Assistance Project (ITAP), India

MEASURE Evaluation

Communication for Behavior Change: Improving the private sectors capacity to provide health products and services for reproductive, maternal, and child health. Expanding Access to Private Sector Establishing an Afghan-owned and managed non-prot social marketing organization that supports a network Health Products and Services of commercial product promoters and distributors. in Afghanistan (COMPRI-A) Supporting products including condoms, contraceptive injectables, insecticide treated bed nets, safe water solution, oral rehydration therapy, zinc, and home delivery kits. Program for Strengthening the Central American Response to HIV/AIDS (PASCA)

Providing technical assistance to support national and regional HIV/AIDS strategic planning and national monitoring and evaluation plans. Supporting implementation of the national health accounts methodology and AIDS Program Effort Index to measure country responses to the epidemic. Disseminating up-to-date HIV information and data to key stakeholders through the websites, listservs, CD-ROMs, and publications.

Funded by the U.K. Department for International Development

Reproductive Health Services

Leading a consortium for an Indenite Quantity Contract covering reproductive, maternal and neonatal health
requirements, including social framework marketing and social franchising services in 27 priority countries in Asia and Africa.

Technical Assistance Support Team For India National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care (HAPAC), Kenya

Providing technical and managerial support to NACO and national and state AIDS control programs. Strengthening capacity, facilitating policy formulation, and guiding implementation to enable an HIV response
Organization (NACO) tailored to context-specic needs.

Strengthening the capabilities of two governmental institutions the National AIDS Control Council and the
National AIDS and STDs Control Program to reduce HIV transmission in Kenya.

Offering technical and nancial assistance to non-governmental organizations providing voluntary counseling
and testing, home-based care, and prevention programs.

Funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

AIDSRelief

Assisting in the rapid scale-up of anti-retroviral therapy in nine priority countries. Leading the strategic
information system component, including monitoring and evaluation, and health management information systems.

Implementing the IQCare database, which allows users to enter, manage, and analyze HIV patients clinical and demographic data.

Funded by the World Bank

Global Epidemics of HIV in Injecting Drug Users

Conducting global research analyzing cost, impact and policy to provide evidence for selected interventions
for people who inject drugs. Reviewing evidence-based approaches, epidemiology and the effectiveness of key interventions, and applicable modeling and costing methodologies.

Disseminating the analysis to country policymakers in collaboration with the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, the
United Nations Ofce on Drugs and Crime, the International AIDS Society, and networks of people who inject drugs.

Funded by the European Commissions

Institutional and Technical Support

Providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to support the implementation of
the National Rural Health.

Guiding responses to planning, funding, and implementing prevention, treatment, care, and support interventions.
Program India

Mission, improving results of the reproductive and child health program and building capacity. Strengthening service delivery capacity of national and state institutes of family health and welfare
through distance education and health systems research.

HIV/AIDS in the Higher Education Sector, South Africa

Enabling the higher education sector, through studies and risk assessments, to understand the threat to its core mandate posed
by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Obtaining prevalence statistics and behavior proles of the staff and student cohort.

Using data to guide planning, funding, and prevention, treatment, care, and support services.