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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Journal article
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...
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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...
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IDEAS at #HSR2018New evidence presented as posters (above) included: Sustainability for a Village Health Worker scheme in Nigeria Availability of routine facility...
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Improved health systems could prevent over 8 million deaths each year in low- and middle-income countriesBeyond this terrible human cost, poor quality health systems represented enormous economic losses to countries due to lost productivity each year....
Research brief
A qualitative study of the scalability and sustainability of the Village Health Worker scheme in Gombe State, NigeriaKey findings show changes that were made to the VHW scheme to increase its sustainability in the 57 wards where it is being implemented to...
Journal article
Six steps to prevent a development project ending in the graveyardIn reality however, in more cases than not, once donor funding dries up, the project comes to an end, thereby limiting the project’s longer term...