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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IDEAS at #HSR2018A number of IDEAS researchers will be attending the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research taking place in Liverpool from 8-12 October....
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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....
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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...
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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...