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- Codeveloping an Adolescent Health Program in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of a Community-Partnered Responsive Feedback Approach
Adolescent Health Champions used responsive feedback to adapt its peer education intervention to address negative impacts on adolescents' mental and physical health and closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Using Responsive Feedback in Scaling a Gender Norms-Shifting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Responsive feedback mechanisms—especially a culture of learning among donors, researchers, and implementers—facilitated timely adaptations and scale-up efforts of an adolescent sexual and reproductive health program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Using a Responsive Feedback Approach to Develop and Pilot a Counseling Chatbot to Strengthen Child Nutrition in Rural India
The authors report on developing and testing a chatbot to facilitate additional client contact points for information and counseling to improve child nutrition outcomes in rural India.
- Leveraging Responsive Feedback to Redesign a Demand Generation Strategy: Experience From the IntegratE Project in Lagos State, Nigeria
Authors detail using a responsive feedback approach to reflect on successes and challenges of an interpersonal communication agent strategy and adapt the strategy to address gaps in performance to increase contraceptive uptake.
- Research to Help Projects Operate Successfully
Operational research is central to project success; an explicit conceptual and operational model can underpin questions that merit attention, prioritizing those where doubt is high and where responsive changes are likely.
- Strengthening Social and Behavior Change Programming Through Application of an Adaptive Management Framework: A Case Study in Tanzania
The SBC Adaptive Management Framework, tested under the USAID Tulonge Afya project in Tanzania, offers a systematic, evidence-informed, and participatory approach to strengthen program design and implementation and enhance outcomes.
- Designing and Implementing the Adaptive Learning Meeting Cycle: The (re)solve Project Experience in Burkina Faso
The (re)solve project's adaptive learning meeting cycle allows programs to adapt while responding to the program implementation context. In Burkina Faso, it also created a team culture that engendered dialogue, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
- Advancing Our Understanding of Provider Behavior Change for Improved Health Outcomes
The articles in this supplement highlight the need for strengthening the measure of provider behavior change and provide new evidence and tools for advancing our understanding of provider behavior and effective ways to ensure delivery of high-quality care that supports both clients and providers.
- Methods and Measures to Assess Health Care Provider Behavior and Behavioral Determinants in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: A Rapid Review
There is a limited understanding of health care provider behavior change approaches and how they're being measured. This rapid review identifies methods and measures to understand opportunities and gaps in assessing and improving health care provider performance.
- Modeling Pathways to Describe How Maternal Health Care Providers' Mental Health Influences the Provision of Respectful Maternity Care in Malawi
Measuring provider burnout and understanding how it impacts delivery of maternity care can help address ways to improve respectful care. Improving facility management is essential to mitigate provider depression, emotional exhaustion & burnout.