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Tracking Progress

Despite substantial investments in maternal and newborn health in Ethiopia, Nigeria and India, the coverage of high impact, evidence-based life saving interventions continues to be unacceptably low. 

 

Frequent high-quality contacts between families and frontline workers are critical in ensuring that every woman and every child receive the interventions they need. Yet in 2015 there were too few contacts between families and health workers, and those that did happen included many missed opportunities for health workers to deliver life-saving interventions.

Regular tracking of the progress of effective coverage provides an opportunity for reflection and course-correction in maternal and newborn health programmes.

IDEAS works in Gombe State in Nigeria to generate primary data through six-monthly health facility surveys and annual household surveys.

Journal article
Maternal and newborn health improves in rural Nigeria, Ethiopia and India but inequities still exist

“Our findings have a both optimistic and pessimistic interpretation, in that families from all socioeconomic status groups benefited, but...

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Journal article
Can we use DHIS2 data to monitor maternal and newborn health? A case study from Gombe state, Nigeria

A paper authored by IDEAS team member Antoinette Bhattacharya and published as part of a series on High Quality Health Systems in PLOS ONE aims to determine the quality of routine health facility-based data in DHIS2 for maternal and newborn health services in Gombe state, Nigeria. Antoinette Bhattacharya takes notes...

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Published content

Blog Post
Better quality routine health data through a WhatsApp group? What comes out of the Data Quality Workshops in Gombe State

To strengthen the quality of routine maternal and newborn health data in Gombe State in 2017 the IDEAS project initiated a total of four data...

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News
Where do we stand? Monitoring and measuring progress in maternal, newborn and child health

A new article, published in The Lancet journal, looks at the current status of monitoring and measurement in RMNCAH&N. The article points out...

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Welcome to the new IDEAS website

The 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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Better health through better data

These meetings are known as “Data Driven Learning Workshops”. Led by the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency (GSPHCDA) the...

Nigeria Community-based newborn care Fostering innovation sustainability Improving coverage measurement Supporting local decision-making Tracking progress Understanding quality improvement Capacity strengthening Evaluation methods Evidence for policy and practice Implementation projects Implementation strength Intervention coverage Local data use
Report
Informed Decisions for Actions in Maternal and Newborn Health 2010–17 Report

  Back in 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle developed a new strategy for the coming years, outlining how they might achieve...

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Blog Post
Taking stock – Seven years of IDEAS

A team of about 20 researchers and professional support staff, employed by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, set off to find out...

Ethiopia General India Nigeria Community-based newborn care Fostering innovation sustainability Improving coverage measurement Supporting local decision-making Tracking progress Understanding quality improvement Research findings
Blog Post
The Global and National Maternal Mortality Targets for the Sustainable Development Goals

Cross-posted from the MHTF Blog and written by Rima Jolivet, Maternal Health Technical Director, Maternal Health Task Force; Sarah Hodin,...

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News
Better measurement for better maternal and newborn health: A new ten million dollar grant for research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

What 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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Research brief
The Pathway to Improved Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes in Gombe State, Nigeria

Use of data for maternal and newborn health in Gombe State, Nigeria (Data from February 2016)

Nigeria Supporting local decision-making Tracking progress Behaviour change Capacity strengthening Implementation projects Local data use
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