In the Sustainable Development Goals era there is considerable interest in promoting the long-term sustainability of health programmes introduced by donors in order to achieve universal health coverage. Effective interventions commonly end when donor funding ends or only fragile, short term funding can be secured to sustain them at scale. This lack of sustainability undermines the value of externally-funded health programmes.
Research brief
Catalysing scale-up of maternal and newborn health innovations: lessons from a case study in North-Eastern NigeriaResearch brief on lessons from a case study of scale-up in North-Eastern Nigeria
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In memory of Deepthi WickremasingheDeepthi was a Research Fellow, specialising in qualitative research, systematic literature reviews and information and knowledge...
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Learning from joint research: Maternal, newborn and child health in EthiopiaThese are just some of the results discussed during a joint MNCH learning conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the 7th of November....
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LSHTM – EPHI Maternal Newborn and Child Health Learning ConferenceThe objective of the conference is to synthesize the learning emerging from the joint research efforts in Maternal, Newborn and Child...
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A new appreciation for data: Impressions from the MNCH partnership in Gombe StateFor the IDEAS team working in Gombe, the past few months have again been a busy period. The last annual household survey was scheduled for August,...
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Mapping complex interventions – lessons from developing and applying a characterisation framework in Nigeria, Ethiopia and IndiaThis paper authored by Krystyna Makowiecka et al and published in BMJ Global Health al describes how government leadership to enhance maternal and...
Research brief
Recommendations from the Village Health Worker Scheme Sustainability StudyMuch work has been done to ensure the sustainability of the scheme, yet there are still some areas of uncertainty, which it would be beneficial to...
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“Their own project for their own people”: Community participation in the Village Health Worker Scheme in Gombe State, NigeriaCross-posted from the Community Health Worker Central hub. Over the last 10 years, there has been little change in the maternal mortality ratio in...
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Celebrating 8 years of IDEASJust a few weeks before this exciting milestone the IDEAS team from London, Ethiopia and Nigeria came together for a team retreat to hear from...
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Ownership in Name, But not Necessarily in ActionThree different commentaries by Melisa Martinez-Alvarez; Osondu Ogbuoji and Gavin Yamey; as well as Elvira Beracochea on the IDEAS-led research on...