In global health, partnerships between practitioners and policy makers facilitate
stakeholders in jointly addressing those issues that require multiple perspectives for …

Introduction: Relatively few studies rigorously examine the factors associated with health
systems strengthening and scaling of interventions at subnational government levels. We …

Voluntary, rights-based family planning upholds women's right to determine freely the
number and spacing of their children. However, low-resource settings like Uganda still face …

Global declines in donor funding present a substantial threat to development financing in
low-and middle-income countries. In Nigeria, the resources required to achieve states' …

Background As more people now live in urban areas than in rural communities in Nigeria,
urban development (UD) requires urgent policy and programmatic attention. Although the …

Methods We propose to use the Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach to understand
the needs, capabilities and challenges of users and ensure stakeholder engagement in the …

Building on expressed support from the Prime Minister to the Ministries of Health and
Planning, the country's new family planning commitment grew out of:(1) recognition of the …

To support the Government of Zambia in addressing its reproductive health challenges and
in meeting its goals for 2020, the United Kingdom Department for International Development …

Background There has been greater recognition of the importance of country ownership in
global health and development. However, operationalising country ownership to ensure the …

Background Public-private partnership (PPP) has been suggested as a tool to assist
governments in lower to middle income countries fulfil their responsibilities in the efficient …