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.
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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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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...
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IDEAS Summer Seminar SeriesMore than seven years later, the team is building on the wealth of data, results, partnerships and learning created. During the seminar series ...
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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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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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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...
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A qualitative study of the scalability and sustainability of the Village Health Worker scheme in Gombe State, NigeriaThis exploratory study seeks to understand the factors that will contribute to the sustainability of the Village Health Workers Scheme as...
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Welcome to the new IDEAS websiteThe IDEAS project aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice in...
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Taking stock – Seven years of IDEASA team of about 20 researchers and professional support staff, employed by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, set off to find out...
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Better health through better dataThese meetings are known as “Data Driven Learning Workshops”. Led by the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency (GSPHCDA) the...