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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‘The stars seem aligned’A qualitative study of context on scale-up of maternal and newborn health innovations in #Ethiopia #India & #Nigeria https://t.co/OEy3JIZYXL —...
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Better measurement for better maternal and newborn health: A new ten million dollar grant for research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineWhat is IDEAS? IDEAS (Informed DEcisions for ActionS in maternal and newborn health) aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies...
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Scaling Up Innovations in Maternal and Newborn Health: 5 Lessons LearnedLaunched in 2008, the Saving Newborn Lives project—led by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health’s Health Extension Programme, implemented by Save...
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Accelerating progress in Maternal and Newborn Child HealthHow do we scale-up high impact service packages that will accelerate progress in maternal and newborn child health towards the 2030 Sustainable...
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Catalysing scale-up of maternal and newborn health innovations in EthiopiaScaling-up community-based neonatal sepsis management across a large geographical area produced challenges, yet there have also been positive and enabling factors in Ethiopia
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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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Cross-sector collaboration is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Maternal Newborn Health ConferenceLess than a month after the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed by countries at the United Nations, this conference brought together...
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How can data improve implementation?Learning from routine data Using routine monitoring and evaluation data to understand why innovations are not being used can help local maternal...
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From clean birth kits to call centres: making sense of diverse efforts for a common purposeBill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded implementation project staff with IDEAS team The first step in our evaluation is to make sense of the...