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Overcoming adversities: The sustainability of the Village Health Worker scheme in Gombe StateThe VHW scheme has been running since November 2016, under the leadership of the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), with the support of Society for Family Health (SFH) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. All three groups are keen to ensure it is sustainable at scale. To help...
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International Day for Maternal Health and RightsBeyond human rights and ethics Rima Jolivet, Maternal Health Technical Director, Maternal Health Task Force, noted that disrespect and abuse (D&A) of women during facility-based childbirth has different manifestations and drivers; thus, context-specific measurement and intervention are crucial. According to Jolivet,...
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External evaluation report of the DIPH prototype phaseThe evaluation aimed to understand the mechanisms and processes of the DIPH strategy for inter-sectoral data sharing and data-informed decision-making, and to provide recommendations for scale-up in other districts of West Bengal. The independent evaluation team used a process evaluation approach...
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External Evaluation Report – DIPH Prototype PhaseThe prototype phase pilot-tested the DIPH strategy and job-aids by bringing together key district-level data on inputs and processes from...
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Linking data sources for measurement of effective coverage in maternal and newborn health: what do we learn from individual- vs ecological-linking methods?Methods We used data from Mayuge District, Uganda. Data from household surveys on access to SBA were linked to health facility assessment census...
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“It’s About the Idea Hitting the Bull’s Eye”: How Aid Effectiveness Can Catalyse the Scale-up of Health InnovationsWith shrinking aid budgets around the world, oftentimes pilot interventions are funded for relatively short periods of time and need to prove...
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Contextual factors in maternal and newborn health evaluation: a protocol applied in Nigeria, India and EthiopiaWe define “context” as the background environment or setting of any program, and “contextual factors”as those elements of context that...
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International Day for Maternal Health and RightsBeyond human rights and ethics Rima Jolivet, Maternal Health Technical Director, Maternal Health Task Force, noted that disrespect and abuse (D&A)...
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Are women getting quality care? And how can we know? Measuring the coverage of high quality careWe have traditionally depended on household survey estimates of the coverage of contacts with health facilities to understand access, for example...
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Slow and steady – validating health data in Gombe State line by lineAs an output from our first data quality learning workshop in March 2017, LGA M&E officers and MNCH coordinators were excited about revitalizing...